Rest in Peace

There has been a death in Kasabonika, it was the mother of a couple co-workers. She died last Saturday and the funeral was held on the 2nd of July at 1pm. Unfortunately we were unable to make it, but we have seen our co-workers since and have expressed our sympathy. Sad times.

In other news, in mid-June we signed up for a service called NatureBox which sends you nutritious snacks every month in the mail. In Canada you can only choose to have a 5 snack box sent for $20 (includes shipping). We just received our first box this week and it contained dried pineapple rings, vanilla macaroon granola, mini peanut butter oat cookies, sea salted corn kernels, and cheddar and onion sunflower kernels. Overall we are very satisfied with these snacks and are looking forward to our next box. Each bag contains up to 5 servings of each snack, so each box should last us almost until the next box arrives.

Also, it has been brought to our attention that we haven’t posted any pictures since the grass and leaves came out, so there have been some requests to post new pics before the snow returns.

Here is a pic looking out down the road from a corner. You can clearly see the bilingual sign which is in English and Oji-Cree. A likes to joke that in Oji-Cree it says “slow down a bit” because we’ve never seen anyone else actually stop at a stop sign on the reserve. You can also seen one of the many fire hydrants on the reserve. We are not sure why they are there, since there is no fire truck or anything which can use the fire hydrants on the island.

Petro-Kas. This is where you come for gasoline.

Kasabonika Lake.

The everburning fire at the dump.

NAPS.

The water treatment facility.

Mama, coming to greet us upon our return (she wasn’t around when we left). As you can see she has lost most of her winter coat and this is also post-surgery. Funny story from her return is that she reacts the same way to a leash as my cat Carl does: she just kinds of sits down and won’t move. She literally had to be carried out of the vet clinic to the car after her surgery. Because, of course, here in Kasabonika she just roams free, right? I mean sometimes she has a collar on, but never a leash or lead, so she’s not used to having one.