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	<title>Life Above The 50th</title>
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	<description>A New Mexican Family Explores Life in Northern British Columbia</description>
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		<title>Heading South</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is not an easy post to write&#8230; which is why I have put it off as long as possible, though this will only make it seem more sudden.  We are returning to New Mexico.
I realize there has been no warning; no allusions to doubts or difficulties.  An experience is what you make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tellescanada.wordpress.com&blog=4708982&post=249&subd=tellescanada&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Starwatching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our house sits atop a high bank at the edge of a river.  Surrounding us are fields, with hills a distance away.  We have a good view of the sky.  Really, the only thing blocking our view are old buildings.  In winter, the sun travels only about 90 degrees in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tellescanada.wordpress.com&blog=4708982&post=246&subd=tellescanada&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://tellescanada.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/starwatching/</link>
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		<title>The Big Hill</title>
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The warm weather and sun have continued for the last few days.  We play outside until we get completely soaked, then come in to dry off.  Usually, the snow is so dry and cold, this doesn’t happen.  Yesterday, we checked out the “Big Hill” across the river, about 3 kms from our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tellescanada.wordpress.com&blog=4708982&post=239&subd=tellescanada&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://tellescanada.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/the-big-hill/</link>
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		<title>Chinook Winds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mom called the other day, and asked, “How’s the warm weather?”  “Well, it’s not exactly warm.  It’s still –15C,” I responded.  “Oh, well we heard you were going to get up to 5C today (40F).”  My mom listens to CBC every day, and always knows what the weather is around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tellescanada.wordpress.com&blog=4708982&post=227&subd=tellescanada&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://tellescanada.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/chinook-winds/</link>
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		<title>Christmas Memories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a full moon night here at Graham:  a brilliant night with no clouds and moonlight glittering on the snow.  The moonlight is so  much more noticeable here, when a moonless night is completely dark.
It is well into January already, and I haven’t said a word about our Christmas trip to visit my family.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tellescanada.wordpress.com&blog=4708982&post=220&subd=tellescanada&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://tellescanada.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/christmas-memories/</link>
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		<title>Reflections of 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a small group of family and friends sat around the living room New Year’s Eve at my brother Josh’s house in Smithers, BC, his wife Laura asked, “Resolutions, anyone?”  Most of us shook our heads.  I gave up on resolutions years ago.  One year when I was a teenager, I made too many, too [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tellescanada.wordpress.com&blog=4708982&post=217&subd=tellescanada&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://tellescanada.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/reflections-of-2008/</link>
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		<title>Merry Midwinter!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The cold weather of last week has continued and become even more extreme.  The thermometer finally hit -40 two nights ago, and then sagged a little below that.  There is a big difference between -40 and -25 C.  The cold bites; stings; takes your breath away.  I don’t want to go out.  I put off [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tellescanada.wordpress.com&blog=4708982&post=207&subd=tellescanada&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://tellescanada.wordpress.com/2008/12/24/merry-midwinter/</link>
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		<title>To Cut a Tree</title>
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Lyra has been begging us to get a Christmas tree for several weeks now.  She can’t wait to decorate.  She was temporarily appeased with a thick pine bough which she propped against the window and decorated quite beautifully.  Marley thought we should cut one of the four pines in our yard.  Nick was deathly ill [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tellescanada.wordpress.com&blog=4708982&post=201&subd=tellescanada&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://tellescanada.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/to-cut-a-tree/</link>
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		<title>Christmas Traditions</title>
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My parents are untradional.  I mean that they are not ones to follow or create traditions, preferring to try something new than repeat something.  We did not have any Christmas traditions that I can remember, except perhaps a Christmas trifle which was always made the way my English grandmother prepared it:  sponge cake, raspberry jam, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tellescanada.wordpress.com&blog=4708982&post=194&subd=tellescanada&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://tellescanada.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/christmas-traditions/</link>
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		<title>Stock by the Gallon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, we took  a much-needed trip to FSJ for groceries and Christmas cake supplies, enjoying a tasty lunch at the fairly hip cafe Whole Wheat and Honey downtown FSJ.  Eating out is quite a novelty these days.  We sat by a gas fire and people-watched while the kids explored the book selection.  A two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tellescanada.wordpress.com&blog=4708982&post=186&subd=tellescanada&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://tellescanada.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/stock-by-the-gallon/</link>
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