coming over the hill
about 5:30 PM.
Love the 
blue Alberta skies
One has to have some diversion when shovelling 
as yesterday we had more snow in Edmonton than we have had for the whole season to date! Here are some of my shots in the yard and for more compete go to my album below.
Last year at this time, I was in Hall Beach Nunavut and experiencing blizzards,
quite a contrast to the mild winter we are having in Alberta.
Recently I have been sorting and setting up a sewing room in my basement and was puzzling over where my sharp scissors and some other sewing supplies might be. The " AH-HA " moment said check the Nunavut box.
A blue large rubber maid container in which basic supplies are stored for travelling back and forth between Nunavut and home in Alberta sits under near my kitchen table. Yes I found my sewing supplles but amazed at the number of " lost " items I discovered by routing through the box marked Nunavut...small tripod, extra iron, sewing bag with felt, beads, scizzors, embroidery thread, wind pants, nanopod, caribou antler, wall hangings, qiniq modem, answering machine, mitt and mukluk patterns etc.
A recent offer for work in the Yukon came from Whitehorse, looking for a social worker in a small community of ... primary concern is the ability to be a generalist....CP, income support and probation in small communities of 200-300 pop. I was really excited about possibilities and could even take dogs. They were needing someone in March-June However. this is too soon for me as I have my 16 yr old gr.daughter living with me ( Gr.11 ) until at least June.Will see what the summer brings. Hard decision saying NO right now!
Anglican Bishop John R. Sperry died on Saturday in Hay River, N.W.T. He was 87 years old.
Sperry, who was better known as Jack, worked as a bishop with the Anglican Church throughout the North.
He was a minister at Anglican missions in Kugluktuk, N.W.T. — then called Coppermine — and Fort Smith, N.W.T. He also served as the Bishop of the Arctic for the Anglican Church and worked throughout Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and Nunavik.
Bishop John Sperry worked throughout the North since the 1960s. He was instrumental in translating the bible and hymns into the Inuinnaqtun dialect. (Diocese of the Arctic)
He learned Inuinnaqtun and worked to translate the Bible and hymns into the Inuktitut dialect.
Bishop Andrew Ataguttaaluk knew Sperry well, having worked and travelled with him in the North since the 1970s. He said Sperry's translation work was instrumental in teaching the Anglican faith to the people of the Western Arctic.
"That was part of his main work to see that the Scriptures and the liturgy become in the language of the people that he served," said Ataguttaaluk.
"He has been more like a spiritual father to many of us in terms of his ministry across the diocese," he added.
Sperry also visited unilingual Inuinnaqtun elders at Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife and served as the chaplain for the Canadian Forces Northern Region.
Sperry was named to the Order of Canada in 2002. He was scheduled to receive one of the 60,000 Queen's Diamond Jubilee medals later this year.
A funeral service in Yellowknife is being planned.
This past week has involved a number of visiting family members as we had one aunt in ICU ( she is much better now ) but in the process we had a number of quick coffees or spontaneous meals. The camera of course gets toted! here was two lovely ladies 
at the Duchess Bakery last Sunday with some mouth watering treats.
But on my departure found a PET bakery
...curiously wandered in and captured a few shots of 
languidly lounging Great Dane
and a variety of cats
in different poses sleeping 
or exploring
or looking out windows.
The owner said they had started the shop
in association with a cat/dog rescue association. I picked up some good and healthy dog food and departed.
This final shot is of Nanuq..
She has a bare spot between her toes with excessive licking. As temporary measure Amelia ( RN student ) shaved, bathed in saline and applied honey bandage. first time Nanuq chewed all off... the sock then added!
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