Tonight I was playing Canasta with my parents. I laughed and said: “You know you are a Yukoner when you know what hand and foot Canasta is.”
How would you finish this sentence: “You know you are a Yukoner when: …”
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Tonight I was playing Canasta with my parents. I laughed and said: “You know you are a Yukoner when you know what hand and foot Canasta is.”
How would you finish this sentence: “You know you are a Yukoner when: …”
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Meandering Michael
…you start “You know you’re a Yukoner” lists. 🙂
Murray
…you spend a couple of hours outside putting Christmas lights on the house when it’s 30 below zero 🙂
Jennifer Burke
You know what square tires are.
Meandering Michael
Your battery has a blanket.
Meandering Michael
…the temperature is -35C and you can say it’s warmer than it was on the same day last year.
Meandering Michael
Summer, hunting, winter, and “dog poo” are the four seasons.
Jennifer Burke
HA! I didn’t know about battery blankets until this year. I may need to go get one.
Rain
So this might be a little out of date as I haven’t lived in the Yukon for almost 30 years and I was a kid then. I live in Ontario now. But, if memory serves:
You know you’re a Yukoner when:
– you consider shotguns on a wall socially acceptable and even arty as long as they are unloaded
– you have a taxidermied black bear rug hanging in your living room (like my family did for like freakin’ 10+ years!)
– you consider it normal to find rifle casings in pant pockets before putting them in the washing machine
– moose meat is not really a delicacy but a way of life
– your kids ALWAYS sport snowsuits under their Hallowe’en costumes. (We don’t here in Ontario.. My kids wear sweaters).
– antlers! Antlers on houses! Antlers on camper vans…need I say more?
– you buy the most basic items using catalogs. Frilly stuff is either from “away” or made lovingly by mom
– fierce animals roam your ‘hoods at night and it doesn’t make front page news
– going outside for recess means playing in a really big space with real ground (not asphalt) under your feet.
– your neighbour can’t go biking – she says she’s growing the hair on her legs for the Sourdough Rendezvous (true story – not kidding!)
– Sprucebog means something.
Jennifer Burke
Rain! Those are some good ones.
I will add: moose, elk, caribou, bear, and bison are not delicacies, but a way of life.
I know a few people with the bear skin. And no, it’s not sexy. It’s gross.
I think there is a reduction in the antler trend.
There are a few more shopping choices here in Whitehorse, Canadian Tire is the most notable.
Sprucebog just happened.
Why can’t you bike with hairy legs?
Jennifer Burke
You try gas-line anti-freeze in your truck.