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**Clare** @NunavutBirder@mas.to · 3d

Leah and I spent our first night at the cabin last night. A milestone. This was the sky last night at midnight. #CabinLife #Nunavut

A light blue midnight school with wispy clouds. The horizon is bright with a hint of orange. The mountain and ocean are covered in snow and shadow.

**Clare** @NunavutBirder@mas.to · Apr 13

Apr 13

Clare @NunavutBirder@mas.to

Tools of the trade. #CabinLife #Nunavut #Coffee

A coffee mill and a Technivorm coffee maker sit on a temporary counter next to a Milwaukee cordless brad nailer.

**Clare** @NunavutBirder@mas.to · Apr 9

Apr 9

Clare @NunavutBirder@mas.to

Lawn ornament. #cabinlife #Nunavut

An Arctic Hare sits near the corner of a cabin on the tundra

**Clare** @NunavutBirder@mas.to · Apr 8

Apr 8

Clare @NunavutBirder@mas.to

Built in shelves are finished. Closer and closer to the finish line. #CabinLife #Nunavut

A set of built in shelves in a cabin. The face is red oak. The interior of the shelves is a deep blue. In front of the shelves is a built in bench.

**Clare** @NunavutBirder@mas.to · Apr 6

Apr 6

Clare @NunavutBirder@mas.to

Long day with little visible progress. Fixed the shelving error from the other day and f’d around with a ton of tiny details. Making the weirdness work and (hopefully) seem less weird. Like the look of the corner face frame on the shelf. #CabinLife #Nunavut

Interior of the cabins showing loft, stairs, a built in bench and shelves and cabinets.

**Clare** @NunavutBirder@mas.to · Apr 4

Apr 4

Clare @NunavutBirder@mas.to

Thought I was doing well tonight getting the shelves in place, but a mistake at the start compounded. As they always do. Sitting back to plan the face frame I saw the error. Now I have to redo it tomorrow. #CabinLife #Nunavut

Interior view of the cabin. Looking at the loft, stairs, built in shelving and bench, and feature wall.

**Clare** @NunavutBirder@mas.to · Apr 3

Apr 3

Clare @NunavutBirder@mas.to

The built ins have been pretty much built in now. Shelves need to be plumbed and made flush with each other. And everything needs a face frame. But, big step done. #CabinLife #Nunavut

A set of shelves built in to a small wall under a loft at the cabin. A small bench is made before them. The wall behind is plastered with pages from old magazines.

Cabinets for the kitchen in place against a wall covered in pages from old magazines.

**Clare** @NunavutBirder@mas.to · Apr 2

Apr 2

Clare @NunavutBirder@mas.to

Darn garden pests. #CabinLife #Nunavut

Two white Arctic Hares outside the cabin. One is alert, the other is sleepy facing the low sun.

**Clare** @NunavutBirder@mas.to · Mar 31

Mar 31

Clare @NunavutBirder@mas.to

Quite the view from the cabin tonight. #CabinLife #Nunavut

A thin crescent moon hangs in a sky of faded denim, that changes its mind as it approaches the horizon, deciding to become bands of ever deepening orange.

**Clare** @NunavutBirder@mas.to · Mar 31

Mar 31

Clare @NunavutBirder@mas.to

Step by step. #cabinLife #Nunavut

Shelves being built into a wall above a bench in a cabin.

A tall narrow set of shelves being built into a wall in a cabin.

**Clare** @NunavutBirder@mas.to · Mar 29

Mar 29

Clare @NunavutBirder@mas.to

Preview #Nunavut #CabinLife

Cabin interior with a bench and set of shelves under construction. In the background a gesture wall plastered with pages from old Life magazines.

**Clare** @NunavutBirder@mas.to · Mar 25

Mar 25

Clare @NunavutBirder@mas.to

Almost. #CabinLife #Nunavut

A coat rack bench in a corner of a cabin beside an entrance way. A parka hangs on one of the hooks

**Clare** @NunavutBirder@mas.to · Mar 24

Mar 24

Clare @NunavutBirder@mas.to

The sky from the cabin last night. 8pm. #CabinLife #Nunavut

A view across a bay on the frozen ocean. A low Sun behind the mountains on the other side colours the sky in yellows and orange. Grey skies above the band of colour are tinged in orange.

**Tavalonia** @Tavalonia@pxlfd.ca · Mar 13

Mar 13

Tavalonia @Tavalonia@pxlfd.ca

The moon through hazy clouds at midnight over our little cabin in the woods…
#algonquinpark #moon #cabinlife

A hazy full moon seen through pine tree silhouettes at midnight over the roof of a cabin. Dark beauty with a glow

#cabinlife

**Clare** @NunavutBirder@mas.to · Mar 9

Mar 9

Clare @NunavutBirder@mas.to

Today’s work requires a bit of explanation. In the old days (but after colonization) Inuit would line their qarmaq with newspaper or magazines.

We did one of our walls as a feature wall and an homage. We used a couple of old Life magazines.

The second photo shows what I mean, but it’s taken through glass so the quality isn’t good. The young girl in the centre is an elder on our Joint Parks Management Committee. Taken when she lived in a qarmaq up Navy Board Inlet #CabinLife #Nunavut

A wall in a cabin, mostly covered with pages from old Life magazines

Inuit family in their qarmaq (sod house). A father holds a young child and three more children sit beside them. Just visible at the edge of the frame sits a mother. The wall behind them is covered in newspapers.

**Clare** @NunavutBirder@mas.to · Feb 23

Feb 23

Clare @NunavutBirder@mas.to

My wife took a short video of the cabin after we painted this afternoon. Leah Ejangiaq Kines #CabinLife #Nunavut

**Clare** @NunavutBirder@mas.to · Feb 23

Feb 23

Clare @NunavutBirder@mas.to

Got the solar up and running this afternoon. Once I swept some snow of a couple panels. It was still helping power the cabin quite a while after the sun went down. #CabinLife #Nunavut

Cabin with five solar panels on the roof.

Sunset over a snowy landscape. A cabin is off to one side and on the frozen ocean sits an SUV. The Sun has set behind the hills across the bay.

An LED panel of a solar controller. It shows 180 volts coming from the panels. They and the battery power the cabin.

**Clare** @NunavutBirder@mas.to · Jan 31 *

Jan 31 *

Clare @NunavutBirder@mas.to

New short cabin content up on my blog, The House and other Arctic Musings #CabinLife #Nunavut

Poke around in there if you go, there’s a lot of older content.

https://kiggavik.typepad.com/the_house_other_arctic_mu/2025/01/spring-forward.html

The House & other Arctic musingsSpring forwardAnxious to get back at it after the winter, we went out in mid-April to the cabin. After shovelling out the snow from inside, and with the help of my father-in-law, brother-in-law, Travis and others, lifted the fourth wall into...

**Clare** @NunavutBirder@mas.to · Jan 27

Jan 27

Clare @NunavutBirder@mas.to

We had some fireworks left over from New Years. So after work, painting sills and jambs, and a wonderful family supper at the in-laws’ cabin, we set them off. #CabinLife #Nunavut