THE SPELL OF THE YUKON

I think that in my travels there is one place that really put an impression on me and that was the Yukon. I found a site a couple of weeks ago - www.urbanyukon.com and it has a stack of peoples blogs from the Yukon - My fav blog is GONE TO THE DOGS at Haines Junction - This is a family with 37 mush dogs, a cat, and twin girls - Heather is a great blogger much like my friend CLR who posts some of the most amazing pics of the north. I finally got the nerve up to post in comments to GONE TO THE DOGS and pointed out that I lived up in Whitehorse in the 70's and that the house I lived in (mind you there were a few in such a short time of me being up north - Carcross cutoff with Matt - Wheeler Street with Greg and Shelley, the bunkhouse basement with Greg who lived up upstairs and then the house beside that which is now Duffy's Pets) - Anyway, Gone to the Dogs was happy to hear from me in that Duffys Pets is also a Mushers store and they go there. I have to wonder if they tore down walls or not - and if my bedroom is a sewing room (the room just off the sunken living room) - I loved that house - It had a sunken livingroom with white shag carpet and standing fireplace and many a day was spent there particularly during the ICE FOG WINTER with friends drinking coffee with a splash of GRAND MARNIER - We would call those days GRAND MARNIER DAYS - Mr. Poole and a few others helped me build a greenhouse at the back of the house one day. Lots of good times happened in the 70's at the now Duffy's Pets. One thing that I will always remember is Angus starting up his van very early in the winter and making Espresso on the stove (what a mess), and tomatoe soup with an egg in it and his most wonderful ham sauce. I had many a dinner party in that house. Now who will go inside and take a few digitals for me to see what it looks like?