Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Summer time and the living is easy, fish are jumping and the cotton is high, famous words from the George Gershwin song.
Well it certainly is summer time and time for holidays, vacation trips, lake time and a general relaxing of the hectic pace. I expect there may be less travel this summer given the price of gasoline and the challenges of airports and flight cancelations.
Notwithstanding it’s a perfect time to retreat to your lake cabin away from the hustle and bustle, relax, read some books, shut off the TV, cellphones, computers and measure the time of day if absolutely necessary by how many hands the sun is above the horizon. Or just ignore the measuring of time all together and listen to your stomach instead as it is quite good at suggesting when your meal times should be.
Rest, relax and be assured the world will get along just fine without your constant internet monitoring, guidance and commentary.
This month I am offering D.A.R.I.A. Book Four free on July 16th and 17th. Some summer science fiction reading with a sentient artificial intelligent entity as the central protagonist. Enjoy!
And while you are on a Sci-Fi reading binge be sure to stop by this website for some excellent Sci-Fi visions of the future. It’s a very excited time!
Are you ready for the changes that will lead us into the future, are you ready to accept the technology which seems like magic it is so powerful?
Get comfy in your cabin deck chair overlooking the lake, have your libation and your personal protection within arm’s length and settle in for a day action/thriller reading to stimulate your imagination.
Floating barge homes on Great Slave Lake, Yellowknife
Housing is obscenely expensive in Yellowknife, NWT. So resourceful folks get around this problem by purchase old used barges which were used by tugboats to move cargo on Great Slave Lake. Repair the barges as required to be seaworthy and then build a house on the barge. Position house and barge in the shelter of the prevailing winds far enough off shore so you do not have unwelcome guests and Bob’s yer Uncle and fanny’s yer Aunt, housing question resolved in a financially reasonable and responsible manner.
I take great delight in grassroots engineering to side step “an unacceptable system!”
Best
Martin E. Silenus