Crapped out weather

started again yesterday.
Early it was just cloudy but by 10’ish the clouds dropped and the light rain/snow started to fall, intermittent with more consistency in the afternoon. It is a fine white cover all over early this morning.

On our morning walk we stopped off at the airstrip for a look see and a chat. Two planes came in while we were there, both lucky to find holes to get down; glad I was not on them.

In the afternoon the dog got antsy for a walk again. With it wet outside I tried to ignore her but her persistence carried the day, besides there was just a fine mist falling as we left.

About a click or two up the road the fine mist turned to moderate rain/wet snow. Siutik revels in these conditions, as soon as I un-leashed her she was off doing her big circle runs, chasing birds through the brush looking more like a white tailed deer than a dog, non stop too until she was leashed back in town.

While handy I stopped to introduce Siutik to our old cat Arial. Siutik did not pay much heed, could be that Arial is a couple of feet under ground. Also a good thing too because if Arial was with us she would have made mince meat out of Siutik, did not suffer dogs very well the old Arial, nor humans for that matter.
Fran says I get too attached to our pets, I say what are they for?

Any way we were both soaked and feeling invigorated when we got back home.

Later: Considering the continuation of the crapped out weather I will hence forth bore you all further.

CBC Labrador morning had three, read it three; Coastal based stories this morning, actually heavy on the Nain side. Hopedale got a lick in with the weekly update from that beautiful town.

One was the baby delivery story I mentioned in the previous post with taped comments from the mother, sister who oversaw the delivery of the baby. All are doing well and the mom and baby expect to return to Nain later this week.

Second was a not so happy report on the plight of a woman in Nain who has threatened to go on a hunger strike unless she received more help from the government.
Louisa Lidd has several physical medical conditions that prevent her form working; she claims a doctor’s letter to that effect.
Louisa claims she has contacted ALL LEVELS of government for assistance and received zero responses, except the usual rules is the rules I would think.

Apparently Louisa receives $410.00 a month from the Province to house, feed, cloth herself. She needs constant help to assist her do to the common tasks of dressing, moving about the house etc. She has to pay for heat out of that 410, plus the usual, this does not leave much left to buy food, especially vegetables that her doctor says she need to help strengthen her bones and body.

So being fed up Louisa has taken the drastic step of sending a letter to the CBC with this threat to go on a hunger strike come the end of this week.

On learning of the threat Minister Skinner to his credit on leaning of the threat, has directed his staff to review Louisa’s file to see if anymore can be done to assist her. From what the minister said there is some minimum extra financial help available under the rules. One wonders what the NG can do to assist as well, or is the NG just another level of bureaucracy that passes the buck up, down, side ways.

Thirdly was a replay of an interview aired on CBC radio noon yesterday. It was a follow up on the trip taken recently by a delegation from Nunatsiavut to Ecuador and the Galapagos.
You can hear the interview here #3. I’m still trying to get my head around the interview, not to mention the whole rational of the trip.

Later later:

This just brought to my attention, I dunno where NewfoundlandLabrador is, neither will anyone find Labrador by the lack of info about getting to the place.
I'm off out, be damed with the mist and rain, I have walked alone at night in thick fog down Wapping High Street in London town so this is no ig deal.