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@NunavutBirder Oboy, I can feel this! I have not experienced the bitter cold of being outside in that kind of cold for many years but the sensation is still there. #CabinLife has its charms, this is not one of them!

He walks. He talks. He sheds his skin like a rep… tile.

-31C with a howling wind late last week and a dead battery and low fuel meant three trips to the cabin that day. And my most extensive frostbite of the year. So now I’m peeling. #CabinLife

Seal skin cushion for the bench made by Leah and our niece. #CabinLife #Nunavut

A little girl peeks around a corner by a set of built in shelves. The sitting on the bench is a large cushion covered in grey seal skin with dark spots.

Today’s cabin views. #CabinLife #Nunavut

The sun peeks over hills across the frozen ocean. Clouds across the sky are orange, pink, mauve and grey.

The view from the cabin this afternoon. #CabinLife #Nunavut

A cabin (my in-laws’) on the shore of a frozen bay of the Arctic Ocean. An SUV is parked on the ice. The sun skims just below the horizon and paints the sky orange.

Making big sticks into smaller sticks into a big stick V 2.0 and 3.0 #CabinLife #Nunavut

A wood working shop. A large table saw with a pile of oak wood strips piled on the floor. More boards of oak sit on the right side of the saw ready to be ripped into strips. The vacuum hose has come loose from the saw.

And… done. #CabinLife #Nunavut

Cabinet with a butcher block counter, red oak Shaker style doors with dark blue panels. The wall behind is covered in pages of old Life Magazines. There’s a window in the middle of the wall and a tongue and groove pine ceiling. On the counter is a coffee maker and coffee mill and a two burner propane stove.

A set of built in shelves with red oak face frames and dark blue interiors. A built in bench is at the base of the shelves with Shaker style doors of red oak and dark blue panels.

Colours colours everywhere. #CabinLife #Nunavut #Aurora #AuroraBorealis

Blue, red, and a tiny bit of green aurora fill a starry sky above the silhouette of hills across the frozen bay.

Went to the cabin by truck for the first time this year. The wind picked up and we narrowly avoided getting stuck.

But a very fast coronal mass ejection sparked a G4 solar storm which I think is waning now. We stepped out to very bright rare pink aurora. It also extended north of us, which is unusual. Here is an iPhone shot. #CabinLife #Nunavut #aurora #AuroraBorealis

A night photo of punk Aurora. The ice and landscape is tinged pink from the bright pink aurora that fills the sky.

Short Time lapse from a couple nights ago. Showing the northern lights at the cabin. You'll notice a couple of vehicles leaving, one is my niece on ATV and the second is me. #CabinLife #Nunavut #Aurora #AuroraBorealis

About last night.

I haven’t got to processing the short time lapse yet, so here’s a small taste. #CabinLife #Nunavut #Aurora #AuroraBorealis

Across a star filled dark night curtains of green light paint ribbons across the sky. A cabin lit with an outside light stands in the foreground.

Got the skidoo started tonight and whipped outcome cabin as my father in law let me know the generator wouldn’t stay going and our battery had run out. Couple hours and a touch of frostbite later one’s going.

There’s Arqsarniit (aurora) tonight so I set up a time lapse while I was there. #CabinLife #Nunavut

It was my intention tonight to set up a time lapse at the cabin tonight for the Aurora. But the skidoo wouldn’t start in the cold. #CabinLife #Nunavut

My view this afternoon while transferring heating fuel. #cabinLife #Nunavut

A view from beside an Arctic cabin. A corner of a front deck can be seen lit from a hidden light. A corner post goes up to an overhanging roof. Beyond is frozen ocean and beyond that dark hills. Along the horizon is a pale orange separated from a graduated blue sky by a thin cloud.

My FIL built his cabin entirely with reclaimed wood. And that is fricking awesome. But it also provided challenges in our renovation of it.

This wall had, um, flaws. So we decided to add some 1x3s and make it a feature wall. Primed and awaiting a couple coats of paint and trim and baseboards. #CabinLife #Nunavut

Wall of a cabin. It has vertical boards ever 16” and has been painted with white primer. A small stepladder stands before a window in the middle of the frame.

rough day yesterday, nothing new, so some leftovers 😣 from mom's place in mountain Cali over Christmas, still a lot of sentimental memories

#photography #cabinlife #winter #rural #homedecor #trees

on the ground outside a cabin, a small kiddie pool constantly in flow courtesy of a small plastic frog fountain, surrounded by two larger cement frogs and one large plastic heron

in front of a tree, an orange plastic birdbath, over which sits a VERY worn forlorn-looking winged angel/cherub, who has survived a number of moves prior to this residency

a standing mother bear and her two cubs, all carved from wood, all adorned in festive Christmas attire, all sitting outside and lightly dusted with snow

a close-up of a thin plastic bar on the porch, onto which has semi-frozen some morning dew, including a hanging series of droplets; the droplets are in focus, and offer an inverted view of the trees that are more blurry in the direct background.

Dammit, I’ve got to dig out the ladder and get that thing unstuck from the antlers. #CabinLife #Nunavut

Cabin at night. An outside light illuminates the outside front of the cabin. Above the hill a bright full moon shines. The moon is positioned at the ends of caribou antlers mounted to the peak of the cabin roof.

The latest upgrade to the cabin. The wind turbine has been installed. The weather is crazy warm here. -4 this morning. -7 last night when I got the turbine up. Which made it great for my hands, but this is January in the high Arctic. #CabinLife #Nunavut

The hope is that this will lessen the reliance on the generator during the dark season until solar can take over.

#CabinLife

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