November 15

Well it's 5C now but the roofs are all white with frost, so I suspect that at ground level it may noy have been as cold. I better plug the boat in tonight. Oh yes  - bright and sunny.
It seems the router has been acting up, under advisement I poked the factory reset on the back and it comes on, but may have to load new drivers.
I replaced all the innards of one of the toilets yesterday, it works fine now. It's strange that they both went 'wonky' at the same time.

As I mentioned earlier, all the years when I was a child Mom never worked out of our home, she did train herself (on my Dad and me) how to cut hair. She charged 35cents per cut at Pender Harbour but when we moved to Port Hardy she bumped it up to 50 cents but through in a cup of coffee after the cut.. In the beginning she used hand clippers then my great Uncle gave her an electric clipper. My neck is still grateful for that modern convenience.

When I was fifteen she got a job at the lone grocery store at Port Hardy as a clerk but she was always home by the time school was out. It is a pity that in today’s world more mothers can’t afford to be there when the kids come home from school.

As I have related in other stories we moved a lot during my childhood. As a result she became one of the world’s foremost experts on packing. We didn’t have a lot, but what we had was important to us, the government (employer) back then took no part in moving problems, on a coup[le of occasions my Dad had gone ahead to his new posting so it fell on Mom to get it all done. No moving vans, a pick-up truck  - maybe. Often only a wheelbarrow was the vehicle of necessity.

She could pack objects within objects, build a crate, tie up boxes and move the stuff to a dock. Our belongings were usually moved by steam boat, and maybe moved from boat to boat. Seldom was anything ever broken and nothing ever lost although sometimes a piece would stray for awhile.

Some of the ornaments that were dear to Mom still reside in our house today.