Category: Around Town

Written by Joyce, our Guest Blogger, who recently spent 3 weeks visiting us in Tulita.

• learn how to play video games

• assist in fleshing a bear skin

• participate in D&D role playing and characters (Dungeons and Dragons – for the uncool uninitiated)

• challenge your hosts to various board games – count on losing

• do jigsaw puzzles

• sit back and read about Canada’s North, or for the bookclub

• walk along the beach every chance you get – fabulous, no matter what the weather!

• take photos of Bear Rock – beautiful, no matter what the weather!

• photograph the wildlife at the dump

• create art from driftwood, grasses and/or beach rocks

• enjoy CBC – with local news about the north and Dene language broadcasts

• go to boot camp, and think of excuses not to go to boot camp

• join the sewing circle and benefit from the Elders’ advice

• throw a line in the Great Bear River close to where it meets the Mackenzie

• struggle with filleting Maciek’s freshly caught northern pike and relish the taste

• enjoy stimulating conversations

• wave at every car and quad that passes you

• help harvest potatoes

• hitch a ride with friends on a quad

• pick bog cranberries and learn what walking in a bog is actually like

• nap

• try to figure out how to spell the soft lovely sound a raven makes when it flies closely over your head (and double it when there are two…..)

• enjoy views of the mighty Mackenzie

• learn how to make and knead pizza and bagel dough and how to cook them from scratch

• learn how to shoot a gun

• Gasp at the prices at the Northern grocery store and BJ Services

• visit Faye’s office, see photos of Naats’ihch’oh park, and see all the critters who get caught on the wildlife camera

• take a tour of the town to the end of the road

• watch movies or a great series like Handmaid’s Tale

• marvel at the muckiness of mud

• throw a stick for Ali (Faye’s boss’ dog), and throw it again and again and again…..

• get a violin lesson from Faye and Maciek – on a blue violin

• harvest veggies from the garden

• marvel at the magic of the aurora borealis!

• watch the miracle of beer birth, burping included, and tasting too!

• cook something with star anise

• find a moose jaw – and bring it home to someone you love

• enjoy a place where love lives

• admire Tulita’s fashion scene

• enjoy Faye and Maciek’s friends

• be inspired — write a blog