So what happened to winter?
(Lou, Yukon) You know how whenever you do a home improvement job there is always some bit you can’t be bothered to do? Some little bit of trim, or a corner that needs painting? Or a roof that needs putting on. We got as far as putting the roof on our resurrected cache then had to stop because Neil hurt his back. But with snowy clouds darkening the skies, we had to get it finished, bad back or not. Health and safety is a serious challenge and works in inverse proportion to temperature and time. So we start with the best intentions (not using a chainsaw when off the ground, one of us always holding our rickety handmade ladders etc.) then as our hands get colder and frustrations build, we progress in an increasingly stupid manner until the job is finished or one of us is injured. Not using the chainsaw on the swaying platform lasted for as long as it took me to look at the log that needed a corner notched into it and then look at the hand saw. Keeping both fe...