Lots of spring like activity on the go in this fine weather [well it was fine until this morning, sun sun sun, up to +2 yesterday but clouding over with maybe some rain in forecast] what with people going off to cabins, for a boil up, hunting, wooding. Quite a few people in from other communities too, some just visiting and others on way hunting, very busy little town indeed.
A small crew arrived back in town to carry on with the construction of the new Nunatsiavut Government building, lot of snow removal and de winterizing to do there.
Yesterday about a dozen Ottawa type civil servants arrived in town on the yearly ‘get to know the natives we deal with on their home turf” dog and pony show put on by ITK. They are supposed to get to know the people and had a trip off into the country. Well actually it was over to the Ten Mile Bay quarry, but country for them I guess.
I sure hop they don’t walk around Ottawa with stunned looks and all over the road like they were here. Like we have road rules and decorum up here too folks, walk in a group spread across the road and something bad could happen ya know.
Meantime on the home front several visitors have necessitated me spending more time in the kitchen. Meantime Fran has gone off with the ‘elders’ for a boil up and some fishing, some people get all the breaks.
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do you ever go off for the boil up and fishing too? I think it would be great fun. It is just for the day or over a few days?
shammickite.maybe that's how he ended up in nain in the first place. he went on a boilup....ooops i meant walkabout. lol
Well Ex Sham, I used to spend many an hour by the billabongs with me swag, waiting in vain to jump any wayward jolly jumbuck that came along.
Alas in the last several years the condition of my back does not jive well with the motion of snowmobile ridding of any distance, so I forgo any long excursions.
I guess there's a sad lack of jumbuks in Nain these days.
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