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Thelma (my knee replacement) and me four months later

Well, here it is over four months later.  And we're still here.  Sometimes I wondered if we would make it... My last post about Thelma and me was one month out and oh boy have things ever changed and for the better.  Thank goodness.  This recovery has been brutal - both physically and emotionally.  And it's still not over. Recovery takes up to a year so I am one-third along.   Last week the walker and the bathtub chair went back to Sask Abilities (free loan; you can't beat that) as I hadn't used them for a while. The walker was living life as a clothes hanger and the bathtub chair was taking up space in my bedroom.  Oh the joy of being able to have a shower without worrying about flooding the bathroom or hanging on to something to balance yourself.  No taking the phone in with me in case I need it...   I'm still using a cane when I go out although it swings around more than it hits the pavement if I am feeling sassy  - on more difficult days it is a lifesav

Visiting Yellowknife and Inuvik

I'm not done with the North West Territories yet. This is going to be a long one so pour another coffee or cuppa and let's get going. The first stop will be Yellowknife, a city of approximately 20,000 which is the capital of the North West Territories and lies on the shores of Great Slave Lake.  Yellowknife got its unusual name from the Dene band who once lived on the islands of the East Arm of Great Slave Lake and carried knives with copper blades. I have been to Yellowknife twice - the first time in May of 2006 and the second time in September of 2009.  I will use pictures from both my trips for this post but focus on the last trip. After visiting Hay River in 2009 I got a bus..well actually a van, up to Yellowknife.  I thought if I was that close why not revisit as I do like Yellowknife. The NWT license plate  Typical views along the highway to Yellowknife..and bison!  It was a great trip that took about four hours.  I got a taxi to my acco

Hay River, North West Territories - 1973 and 2009

The North West Territories is so special to me that it gets two posts!  I have a little personal history with this area so I thought would be fun to share.  Here we go..with a bit of a blast from the 70's to throw in as well. In 1973 just a couple of months after my 21st birthday I listened to the adventure that we all know now lurked deep in my soul and headed north.  Well, what I considered north - when I talked about being "up north" the locals laughed at me as Hay River is in the southern part of the NWT.  Now that I've been "really north" I get it.   Hay River then... Hay River is a community of approximately 3600 people just over the border from Alberta in the very southern North West Territories. It lies on the shores of Great Slave Lake which is the deepest lake in North America at 2014 feet as well as being the tenth largest lake in the world.  In 1973, while I was working as a long distance telephone operator at the telephone company here in