The winter road

Here I am blogging two days in a row. Now that I finally learned how to do it on my own!!! (Last night Tricia taught me by MSN). I find the sign pointing to Oxford House really funny. I haven't had the pleasure yet on driving very far on the winter road. But there's something humorous about a sign posted on a tree. Especially when it's for a swampy path that magically becomes a "road" when it is frozen enough to drive on. It's actually more pathetic than it is humorous. The lifeline of these isolated communities relies on the winter road being open. With global warming the time frame for this opening is shortening. People are so happy when it gets cold. They will drive 12 hours on the winter road (to and from Thompson) in one weekend. But more importantly, it means the years supply of gas, construction supplies, and luxuries like new vehicles/snow-mobiles/ATV's/boats and motors and other such things that are impossible/difficult to fly in. It has finally become cold this week. So hopefully the road will be open for the month of February at least. But it is just one example of the great inequalities these isolated reserves face.