Play that little diddy

John is almost back from being in South America. I am very excited to be making music soon once again.

Ice Fishing

You can not go very far in this province without finding world class fishing. Sometimes the fish forget to bite though and so you decide to take a break for a photo opportunity with the dogs. Here we are at Echo Lake. Today I slept in and missed fishing with these guys again and it just so happened that Brett pulled up a fourteen pound Northern Pike in my absence. My loss. No sleeping in next time.

Here is a better picture of our camp. Note my handy cooking pole. It is tied to a nearby tree on an angle. Then I made a pot holder out of a forked sapling. Because the cook pole is placed on an angle I can easily move any pot up or down, closer or farther away from the fire.

Bush camping

My homework for the weekend was to go out and build a bush shelter. Excitement built in my head as my thoughts turned to the obvious idea, "If I build a shelter, I might as well sleep in it." So I rassled up 5 other friends from school and we went out winter camping. These are some pictures of the lean to I built. Hopefully I will get some more pictures of the camp from the others that went. The day was warm so we got a little bit wet but nothing a fire could not dry out. Everyone else opted to sleep beside a fire with their shelters but I decided it would not be cold enough to warrant a fire for myself. I think it only went down to around minus 15. I would have slept like a log, except for the creaking birch tree that loomed above my head and kept threatening to make a pancake out of me and my dog. Now that the shelters are built though we will probably head back there for some ice fishing and camping. this time round we only had enough time to build shelters until the darkness came and it was time to throw verbal bullshit at one another across the flames.

My lover, Helios.

It is all worth enduring. After two months of darkness, the sun has arrived to greet me once again on my morning traverse to school. It is a hard world to live in when you leave in darkness and come home to darkness. Not much room is left for playtime and happiness. But alas. Helios has finally brought the sun back to me. Spring is around the corner. I can smell it in the air. A perfect weekend for some ice fishing and a winter camp. Three cheers for the sun, and the life that it brings us.