all the news that's fit to print...

Forgive me lord, it's been about 2 weeks since my last confession...er...post... and it's time for an update.

Since we last spoke, many new and exciting thinks have happened for our intrepid northern nutbars:

We moved out of Tom and Karen's place
We got a cat
We got a car
We got online
We took some photos of all that

First things first...

I live by the philosophy that "my dirt is cleaner than your dirt". So when we moved into our new basement suite/cave to find layers of pet hair on the floor, and dirt on the windows i immediately went into jungle survival mode - i fixated on the singular threat to my very existence and moved to neutralize it. in other words, i spent 3 hours vacuuming 3 very small rooms. sarah thought i was just being plain stupid, but when, to rationalize my bewildering behaviour, i showed her evidence - my vanquished enemy - a safeway bag FULL of pet hair, she understood my compulsion. I'll be damn sure to leave the place with cleaner dirt than we found.

We cleaned the place out good. we now eat off the floor.

tom and karen were happy to see us move on. Our shit pile in their loft seemed to be growing by the day and then there was the 2 hour cue for the bathroom every morning. I hope we did our fair share of dishes and wood gathering. but not toooo much, i'd hate for them to be so impressed with our hardworkingness that they invite us back for periodic work bees such as to build a deck or an addition or to say...paint the house. who can say "block party"? in all seriousness, their hospitality and generosity are unparalleled. if you ever find yourself in the yukon, you can just call up karen and tom and they'll put you up for at least a month. tell them i sent you.

Our new cat is named "stella". It's a great name to yell when she's ripping the shit out of the curtains or your leg. I'll let sarah tell you all about our furry new addition.

FOR SALE: 1985 VW Golf. 5speed, runs well, needs block heater, 4 dr, new muffler & rad. good tires.

If you know anyone who wants to buy a "new to them" car, give us a call. We just leased ourselves a brand new subaru impreza. it's fun to drive again. we have such luxuries as a "radio" and "air conditioning" and a "read window wiper" and "defrost that works". It was actually an option in the brochure, "Defrost that works - extra $100"

We have internet access now so we can reply to your emails finally. don't write us off yet!

Some more photos are pasted onto that website that sarah put together. the link is in the last blog entry i think.

talk to you again soon. stay tuned, i've still got some things to get off my chest, including issues with the insurance industry and the unconstitutional nature of -15 weather in October...what is this the $^#*@&! Yukon or something?!