Barge Orders and Puppies!

Now don't freak out, family...we didn't get a puppy. But our friend Jahana did, and brought it by for us to have a snuggle with. It was the cutest thing ever, as you can see. Sort of looked like a little polar bear.

We also got our barge order in, finally! The skid (which was piled up about six feet high) got dropped off in the middle of the pouring rain. Thankfully some of Jon's students were around and helped us carry it in. We rewarded them with chocolate bars and pop, which they seemed to think was an excellent deal. We had ordered from a place called Hay River, and everything came through as we wanted, except for quite a few boxes of Diet Ginger Ale that we are hoping the CO-OP here will take in exchange for the real stuff. Jon is adamant that he won't be drinking diet. I think next year though we will just buy from Dan's store and ship it up through the shipping company...better selection and we can know exactly what we're getting.

Other funny items: 4 2.5 kg bags of skim milk powder because we didn't think we'd be able to buy milk. It's funny to think back about how little we knew when we were planning on moving up here. though to be fair a jug of milk costs around 15 bucks on a good day. We mixed some of the skim up though, and it's not bad...it will be good for cooking. It sort of tastes like milk at the bottom of a cereal bowl. It's surprisingly sweet. We also got so many cans of flaked tuna, ham and chicken because we weren't sure how easy it would be to buy meat.

Speaking of meat...we got a ton of caribou off a guy so we have been making roasts, and steaks and getting use out of our slow cooker. Caribou is quickly becoming my favourite meat...it is really comparable to beef, except about ten times tastier.

That's all for today...time to get back to our mountain of planning!