A quick photo post to catch up on the visual aspect of my time in Pond Inlet.
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| Approach into Pond Inlet |
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| View of Bylot Island |
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| Health Centre front view |
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| Health Centre side view |
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| House 2 of the nurses own |
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| View from my apartment |
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Theatre group
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| Over the Baffin Mountains |
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| Coming into Kuujjuaq, Nunavik |
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| yarn storage with Ikea bins |
Although I've finished work two weeks ago, the pace has been the usual homecoming frantic...in a good way, but still not enough hours in the day to update the blog. The first week is usually spent on appointments such as haircut etc and this one was no exception. Some grandchildren visits, supper guests, swimming in the pool (thankful for the heat pump), and finishing some crochet projects such as a mandala vest (think leftover hippy) for the baby daughter and...here we are on Canada Day weekend. I came home to find the shore captain had created a yarn storage area in the bedroom (seen here on the left) to house the fibre collection which had accumulated by the couch in the living room and really didn't need to live there. There was a fair bit of sorting, organizing to get it to this state and resulted in the purchase of a new binder for my patterns. I've done some coasters, started a shawl and am contemplating a few more projects as it's easy to see what you have for materials this way and makes you think you're in a yarn shop.
The weather since my return has been for the most part...crappy, meaning coolish, rainy, foggy and lots of bugs. Really doesn't lead to planning camping trips. There are plans for a football game in Montreal which the shore captain, oldest grandson and Ottawa daughter will take in. This will be followed by a week at Little Ray's Reptile day camp for the grandson as he visits his auntie, then he'll fly home escorted by flight attendant and I'll pick him up. Lots of excitement on both sides of that planning.
And speaking of planning...I've taken to listening to podcasts when I crochet and learned today on Frommer's that there's a program which allows you to spend a few days apprenticing with artists around the world. It's (logically) called Vacation With an Artist and allows for a number of different types of experiences - anything from learning to tango in Buenos Aires to stone carving in Tanzania or dyeing fibres in Vietnam. Check it out:
Seriously thinking of trying on the cooking, but deciding on the country will be the problem....
