The First Snow – Under the Northern Sky

by Xavier Kataquapit
ATTAWAPISKAT – I spent the afternoon working around my cottage preparing for winter. I put away anything that was unprotected from the ice and snow. Then I stored anything that could freeze and sheltered anything that could be moved. I cleared a lot of brush and piled everything into a bonfire that kept me warm as I worked.
In the afternoon, rain started to fall but it was it was more like ice pellets. The thermometer was just hovering around the freezing mark and the