Long Weekend at the Cabin

Well it's been a while since I posted anything on here...   we went south for a three week holiday in Timmins to visit the family. When we came back we spent some time going to the cabin to finish setting it up and we also did some caribou hunting. I got a decent bull and Zellie finally got her first caribou, unfortunately Maria was not able to shoot anything this year. But she sure did try!!!!!!

We decided to spend the long weekend in August out at the cabin, it was our first time staying out there for more than a day. I spent my time going odd jobs around the cabin like finally building an outhouse and building a bench for the outside of the cabin out of some scrap wood.

Here are some pictures from the weekend:

Maria, Zellie, and Myna in front of the cabin

Here is Zellie driving the Jeep to the cabin

Maria walking by the bay

Nancy and Maria on the big rock in front of the cabin

Fishing Derby

Well last weekend was our annual spring fishing derby so we headed out to our cabin by the lake for the weekend. It was a good weekend but no fish.

The kids ridding the Ski-Doo

Zellie and Maria

Maria driving the Ski-Doo

We had a fire to roast marshmallows and make smores

Carving Snow

Here are some shots of the girls carving some snow blocks

They said that they were going to build me an igloo so I could sleep in it...   yeah right!!!!!!

Weekend Trip

We left Saturday morning to ice fishing at our other cabin by the lake for the weekend. It took us about 40 minutes to get there by snowmachine and this is what we found once we got there.

Yes that's the door in back of all that drifted snow. After about one hour of hard shoveling and chopping we finally got to the cabin door.

A Couple More Pics Of Our Trip

Shadow playing in the snow

Zellie pulling the qamutiq with her ski-doo

The New Cabin

Well we finally made it to the new cabin to clean up the stuff that was left behind. We took out about eight garbage bags full of stuff. It was a beautiful day and the sun was shinning, it was warm enough to walk around outside with just a hoodie on.

The cabin will need some work done to it such as some new paint and taller door so I don't always hit my head when I walk in. It may not be perfect but I'm happy we decided to buy it and now I can hardly wait to see it in the summer time when all the snow and ice are gone.

Well here it is

Here is a view of the Inukshuk that is in back of the cabin with Maria, Nancy, and of course Shadow.

Sled Dog Race

We had the afternoon off on Friday so we decided to go watch the start of the dog sled race down at Itivia. We got there just as the teams were leaving but I did manage to get a couple of pictures.

Here is one I converted to Black & White:

This is a picture I took of Zellie's dad who was with us at the race: