In This Altitude One Will Freeze Before
Feeling The Cold, As I Know From Experience, Having At The Present
Time Two Fiery Red Ears Of Enormous Size.
They are fiery in feeling,
too, as well as in color.
The atmosphere looks like frozen mist, and is wonderful, and almost at
any time between sunrise and sunset a "sun dog" can be seen with its
scintillating rainbow tints, that are brilliant yet exquisitely
delicate in coloring. Our houses are really very warm - the thick logs
are plastered inside and papered, every window has a storm sash and
every room a double floor, and our big stoves can burn immense logs.
But notwithstanding all this, our greatest trial is to keep things to
eat. Everything freezes solid, and so far we have not found one edible
that is improved by freezing. It must be awfully discouraging to a
cook to find on a biting cold morning, that there is not one thing in
the house that can be prepared for breakfast until it has passed
through the thawing process; that even the water in the barrels has
become solid, round pieces of ice! All along the roof of one side of
our house are immense icicles that almost touch the snow on the
ground. These are a reminder of the last chinook!
But only last week it was quite pleasant - not real summery, but warm
enough for one to go about in safety. Faye came down from the saw-mill
one of those days to see the commanding officer about something and to
get the mail.
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