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A bit of snow on the ground
Snow in front of the house We've had some cold and snowy weather in St. John's over the past coupleof weeks. The storm last night only left 15-20 cm of snow in the city, but its a damp heavy snow. It...
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Heading to the hills...
I'm putting the blog on autopilot for a couple of weeks so that I can enjoy a computer free Christmas. This is a reconstruction of a Neolithic Pastoralist found in the tourist information centre and...
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Grise Fiord Monument
Overlooking Grise Fiord is a life-sized monument to the first Inuit brought to the community in 1953 and 1955.You can read about the creation of the communities of Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord by the...
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Beothuk Birch Bark Containers
A pair of red ochre stained Beothuk birch bark containers on display in the Mary March Museum in Grand Falls-Windsor. I have a Beothuk birch bark reproduction on the horizon, but it will have to wait...
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Resolute Bay Raven
Big black ravens populate Resolute Bay, Nunavut.They don't seem to sit still for long. They are always on the look out for their next meal.Photo Credits: Tim Rast
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Home from Cuba
We spent an evening in Havana, taking in the Tropicana show.Lori and I usually go away for Christmas at the Cabin with our friends John and Elaine. Originally, a cabin just outside of St. John's was...
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Rural Cuba at Jibacoa
Lori feeding sugarcane to a pig. Cuban pork is the best fed pork in the world.While in Cuba, we stayed at a resort near Jibacoa, about an hour east of Havana. It was my first time in Cuba and my first...
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Daytime Havana
Christmas Eve 2013 in HavanaSt. John's is not making it easy to adjust back to winter. This time last week we were in Cuba and we visited Havana in shorts and t-shirts on Christmas Eve. Today, in St....
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Snowshoeing #DarkNL
Snowshoeing the East Coast Trailis a little tricky with a metre ofpowdery snow on the ground.Newfoundland is still in the midst of coping with a major winter storm, pre-preemptive closures, rolling...
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Back to the Grindstone.
The dry grinding wheel still works fine.I broke my grindstone. I spent the morning working on an book review that I'd planned to wrap up in December and then in the afternoon I moved into the workshop...
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First Order of 2014 - Shipped!
Antler billets and pressure flaking kitsThe first Elfshot order of 2014 is out the door and shipped. A friend in New York ordered a bunch of flintknapping kits and moose antler billets to use with his...
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Check Your Passport Carefully
I had a major scare with my passport on our recent trip to Cuba. It was a brand new passport; I got it last June and it looked fine when I thumbed through it and signed it, but it turns out there was...
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Snowshoeing the Waterwitch Trail
The Waterwitch trail starts at the north end of Pouch Cove and winds towards Cape St. Francis, the northernmost point of land on the east side of Conception Bay. We took off for a couple hours of...
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Edmonton and Saskatoon March Flintknapping Announcements
Edmonton Flintknapping workshopI'm very pleased to be returning to Edmonton on March 15th and 16th of this year for a flintknapping workshop with the Archaeological Society of Alberta's Strathcona...
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Planning Dorset Drums
The Dorset Drums from Button PointI'm starting work on a couple Dorset Palaeoeskimo drums based on artifacts found on Bylot Island off the north end of Baffin Island, Nunavut. The original artifacts...
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Looking for willow shoots
Collecting sticksI've collected the wood for a first attempt at the Dorset drums from Bylot Island. I don't know what sort of wood was used for the original drums, but arctic willow is the only option...
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The NLAS has been busy
Planning for the futureI've attended a few Newfoundland and Labrador Archaeological Society meetings in the past week or so. We had an executive meeting last week and then a public planning meeting on...
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The guns on Signal Hill
The Queen's Battery, Signal HillThe rain, fog, and warm temperatures demolished the snow, so we weren't able to get out snowshoeing this weekend. Still, we met friends for brunch on Saturday and went...
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Copper Pressure Flakers
Copper Pressure FlakersI've been making and shipping a lot of flintknapping supplies lately. Today I was cutting up moose antler into billets and preparing a few copper tipped pressure flakers. I...
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