-=> Quoting Shawn Highfield to Jim Weller <=-

 JW> My Loblaws store has stocked fiddleheads this
 JW> year. They grow wild all around me anywhere its wet but these are
 JW> flown in from the Maritimes and cost 12/lb!  Crazy.

 SH> Laugh!  Is anyone crazy enough to buy them?

Yes. They sold out. I guess there's lots of people who don't want to
go mucking around the bush in rubber boots or are afraid they'll
pick the wrong kind.

 SH> We missed them this year
 SH> as we couldn't get to the park in time to harvest.

Ours aren't ready yet. We are still getting some frosty evenings
and even the occasional snow flurry here as well as some nice warm
sunny days. The lakes are still frozen but the fast flowing rivers
and stream have open water now so the ducks, geese, swans and cranes
are back. They won't be here long as their nesting grounds are even
further north. The Indigenous folk are happy as they get a spring as
well as a fall hunt and the first roast goose of spring is a treat
they look forward to all winter. My Arctic Cooking group is full of
the photos and every week the posters are just a bit further north
than the ones the week before.

Breakup created a lot of flooding this year. Not in Yellowknife but
elsewhere. We had a combination of heavier than usual snowfall all
winter coupled with heavy rain and snow upstream just as the ice
started to break. The rivers run north so breakup starts in the south
and we frequently have ice jams at the river mouths. The town of
Hay River had its worst ever flood in its history with ice packs
ripping up the shore line 25 feet higher than the normal high water
mark.


Cheers

Jim

... Goose fat is one of the best tasting greases.

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