Construction

• It’s not horseshoes, close doesn’t count

  I got thinking about roof panels after I mentioned it in the last post. Up here pretty much every roof is a metal roof. You don’t see a lot of shingles here. The roof package was part of our main house package that came up on the sealift. The roof, as evidenced in the photos,

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• Water water everywhere

  Drywall has begun going up inside the house. The water tank room has been drywalled in anticipation of bringing in a mechanical sub again. In Arctic Bay, indeed in much of the north, there are no sewers, or water mains. Water comes to your house in a truck, and the sewage gets taken away in

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• Plans

  When we started this process, so long ago it seems now, I really didn’t have a clue about the complexity and magnitude of this sort of business venture. I certainly had no idea on just how complex building a house was. And I really didn’t know just how long this would take. We’ve been going

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• Crew Stories

  Building the house up here has been a wealth of fodder for stories, and the crew has been, uh, entertaining if nothing else.  Gary and I keep saying that we have to start writing these down, which brings us to this post.  The names in this post have been changed to protect the guilty, the

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• Travis on site

  About 90% of the joy in my life (and I like to consider myself a joyful person) comes directly from my son, Travis Mathew Alvin Avinga Evaluarjuk Kines. Travis is coming on to three years old, he was born in Iqaluit in July 2002, and flew up to Arctic Bay two days later. We adopted

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• A start

  It’s a little late. I mean, we are getting close to finishing the house, and these musings should have started last August, when the ship arrived with our material. But there is still a ways to go, and there are lots of stories to share, so here is a start. My start. Welcome to the

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