I have been reluctantly playing catch up with some house cleaning of paper work. This time of year I find a pain in the arse as I usually leave a lot of filing of stuff, investing in RSP’s and other ancillaries to the last minute, me bad.
So after a morning of mind numbing sitting in front of the word processor I took Siutik for a walk.
The sky’s had cleared, I knew the wind was up but our house is protected by the W to NW winds.
Up the road we go and head for the higher ground. On breaking out from the protection of the trees the wind was quite strong, blowing snow about 2 feet off the ground straight across the track. Siutik was reveling in the fresh snow on the way up but this stiff breeze started to get to her. For the first time ever she started to plunk herself down in my way and give me a look as if to say, ‘time to go back boss’.
We proceeded further, I even did short stints of jogging to try and simulate her interest, no go. On turning to head back she gave me a quick look to say, ‘good on ya cobber’ and took off down the hill tail a wagging. She never goes far without looking back, and when she does get out of line of sight she will always come back looking for ol slow poke. When we get back into town she will always come when I call her to be tethered to the lead again.
Another incident with a snowmobile occurred over the weekend in Goose Bay. It was the second time Barry Andersen has been in the news with a gas leakage problem with his Bombardier 600 cc, the footage on Here&Now [no link] this time showed a gas leak up under the cowling at or near the outlet of the fuel pump; gas was running down the electrical components and very close to the exhaust. Barry and his wife were all loaded up to go off to their cabin, just before starting the machine up they smelt a strong odor of gas and checked it out, needles to say the cabin trip was postponed.
Nain is not the only town with water leaks and freeze ups this winter. Hopedale has more than it’s share of problems, see CKOK news briefs for updates on this and other coastal news.
In Nain there is one mother of three children who is in dire straights after the first big water main leak. The woman claims not only her water pipes are frozen but also her sewer line. For the last month she has had to boil water on the stove for washing, bathing, and then having to bail to water out of the receptacles due to the frozen sewer pipes. The town council is looking into this matter. I do not know the circumstances here, [the woman claims it’s not her fault the council turned the water off] but from my experience if water and sewer lines freeze up inside the home it is a heating issue more than anything else
I see the new government down under moved fast to ‘do the right thing’. It will take some time to re do the wrongs of the previous government [who undid the rights of the Bob Hawk government], the leader of which did not turn up for the ceremony.
On JH must have been to busy with drafting speeches for cash to attend the sorry ceremony.
You can assimilate some of the people some of the time, but you cant assimilate all of the people all of the time.
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