LET it snow, let IT snow, let it SNOW!!!

Sunday night when I got home after the movie night... it was already kind of 'nasty' out... lots of fresh snow + some wind = blowing snow, snow drifts and white-outs.... On Monday at noon.. when I took Omar out... this is what I saw.. a HUGE drift of snow in front of the house... (all Sunday night the house shook because of the wind).... (by Tuesday morning this drift was ABOVE the truck's window... I wish I had taken a photo!)..

Omar didn't mind... he just jumped through it.. and dove, hiding his head looking for things under the snow... it was quite fun to watch.. and I was wearing my sorel boots and snow pants and was ok to wade through the snow at some points higher than my knees!

Even the door was covered with snow.....and some ended up in the porch!

Here's the row of houses across the street....when I was out with Omar before bed... there was a few times.. I was standing (just on the other side of the house...) and I could not see anything but white...I just stood still and waited for the wind to die down for a second so I could walk closer to my house..(about 20feet away!) I made it home safe and sound....

I'm so excited I got to see such an awesome winter storm... although tonight, it makes me a bit worried... I'm leaving tomorrow heading south.... but well that's 'weather permitting'... so my hope and prayer tonight is that the wind stays calm, and the ceiling high for the morning... just long enough for the plane to land and then take off again....(of course with me and my 3 bags on board!)... Here's to hoping for that.... although it wouldn't be so bad to be 'stuck' here in the north--for a few more days... it just  might mean I fly directly to Winnipeg and not spend 2 nights in Toronto... not the end of the world.. just not what I had planned.. I'm hoping for good weather...but what will be will be... the fresh snow does look so nice.. and the temps here have been amazing... it toped -1C today at one point... and now is hovering around -10C I think! Pretty darn nice..

...winter wonderland...

I took these photos after leaving work yesterday at 5pm! The sun is setting about 4:45pm ish...these days... but it was fun to go for a 'short' walk in a winter wonderland!! This is the view from my front porch--looking at Mt. Duval and the BIG building is the GN (Government of Nunavut) Building--where I work... (things are named sooo creatively here!)

This photo is looking out in front of my house.... you can see the last of the sun setting out at the Cumberland Sound.... and see the snow/cloud still happening everywhere....

...I'm hoping that the wind better pick up and blow a bit of it away ie) the path I walk to work...because i don't have a shovel...AND it's already at the tops of my Sorel Boots!!

...and it hasnt' stopped yet!!

I woke up to a WINTER wonderland..... there's nothing like seeing the fresh blanket of snow covering everything!!

here's a view out my window....can't even see if the ships have left..or if they are still out there!!

...and looks like it won't stop any time soon!!!

SERIOUSLY I'm LOVING it!!!

It's HERE!!!!

There are 3 ships in this photo....(left to right)

the SeaLift Barge, a Fuel Ship and Fishing Boat (it's hard to see!) 

...click on it if you would like to see it bigger!! :)

Showing off my 'new' hat!!

Most of the day today---when I looked out the window I couldn't see the Mount Duval or any of the fiord!  I was over at my friend's place...and when it cleared we walked to the Northern to get some groceries... so much fun to be out in the snow!!

One of the fork lifts..bring some of the crates to shore from the barge---it was fun to watch in the summer..but it's a COLD job today!!

...my door... the wind likes to blow lots of snow.. so it sticks around my door.. and when I open it.. it falls into my porch area!!

Oh its' coming.... but when?!

I'm sitting here looking out my window... and see the above view... gorgeous...but lacking that wonderful white blanket of snow!....It's not that snow hasn't made it's face known in and around Nunavut yet this year.... in Iqaluit they've had 2-3 'heavy' snow falls...while I was travelling those communties had snow.... and I heard last week that people up in Qik have been snowmobiling... (that's like a 40min plane ride north!)....Heck my family even woke up in the south in Haliburton on Sunday morning to a light dusting of snow.. and inquired how much I had... when I said... none really in town!


So I sit patiently waiting the snow... I love snow... (always have)...next to fall....with the leave changing colour.... I've always LOVED snow.... and I'm just waiting for it to come and stay...I'm tired of having to deal with the DUST on the roads... from the trucks.. or from the road building in front of my house.... I just want to see WHITE... not brown....(is that too much to ask!?)

I know even typing this... people might react... "Do you really know what you are wishing for?" and the answer would be not really... am I ready for the winter? who knows....but time will tell...I arrived and there was TONS of snow.. and I remember looking out the window trying to imagine what the land looked like without that 'white' blanket lying on it... but well you know I do know what it looks like.... and I wanna see that blanket back... Now some people might think I'm totally INSANE...but here I sit and write about wanting to see the snow.....perhaps I am....and I know it's coming... I can feel it in the air.. and when I wake up there's more snow that's been added to the tops of the mountains... but I keep wondering.. when will it come to town? and when will it stay....

...and there was SNOW falling on my head!

I arrived in Cape Dorset today.... before it got too dark I wandered around (with all the people from the cruise ship)...

(you can see the snow coming from across the water!)

...at the look out!..

Yep--that's the SAME ship...I'm convinced it's stalking me--from Pang...then Kimmirut and now Cape Dorset!  (this shouldn't affect the rest of my travel-- they are heading to Kujjuaaq and then back to where they all call home!)

Oh ya.. the SNOW is here... AND it's COLD and there was ICE in what use to be puddles (see the above photo!)...

In other news from Cape Dorset...there was a Polar Bear around town lately-- they had to 'scare' it away from town last night and this morning... and the Bow Head whale hunt has started.  This year there are 3 tags (or license to kill 3 animals)...that have been given to hunt the Bow Heads... they have been split up into 3 communities across Nunavut.  Cape Dorset has one, Rankin Inlet and Kugaaruk have the other two tags!  It's a 'controlled' hunt that the whole community takes part in... I'm hoping that it is 'caught' while I am here... because that would be an amazing experience... I'll keep you posted!!