22 September

Keno

In the sun at about 2 degrees

Overnight the world froze up with the on set of another of the annual ice ages

(BE WARNED: all you global warming converts

it's just a buzz in advance of a the next real ice age or meteorite strike - which ever gets here first)

So we were without water this morning - the maintenance job obviously wasn't done right

I saw the first of the Northern Lights in the frozen sky at 3am - so will try to photograph it next time.

And for those of you who can't visualise the old mining camp setting that we are living in

- here's a view of it today from the chopper with some of the 1980's mine shafts out there on the right of the road. We occupy some of the old buildings in the foreground for office, core logging and workshops; my house is up the road in the middle distance on the left, just under the little hill of quartzite, and the trailer bunkhouse and cookshack are in the centre middle distance where the two other roads come together. The mining town was called Elsa, I prefer to call it Keno.