Kids and dogs

In town runoff water from melting snow in the hills becomes a river rushing to the harbour

Friends playing beside their house near harbour

With great trepidation I am back to attempt the third post to my blog.
The other day I took a walk into town around 4:30 p.m. It's about a 20 minute walk mostly downhill on the dirt road. For the first 15 min. or so I saw just three other people out walking (everybody always says hi) and two vehicles, both pick-up trucks. The main vehicles here this time of year are pick-up trucks and ATV's. The trucks are mostly covered in mud as the dirt roads are quite wet from melting snow that sometimes accumulates into rivulets running down the sides of and across roadways. Atv's are often driven by women with several children aboard. It's a great way to get around this tiny hamlet built on the hilly shore of a beautiful harbour.
Rocky and a friend

Children and dogs are really friendly

Along the way I met several of the cute little dogs that always seem to be running around here. Built low to the ground they have shaggy beige, black, or beige and black coats. They're full of personality and must be tough as they are out even when it's cold. Rocky, two-toned and one of the smallest, was trotting around on his short legs, greeting everyone and everything, full of confidence. Once I got down nearer the water and into the centre of town there were groups of kids playing everywhere. The bike riders had mud stripes running up the backs of their jackets. Two little kids were playing way up high on a huge rock face. Some of the older kids were hanging out at the Northern store. And two young boys, maybe 10 or 12 years old, walking up the hill with their friends, were carrying rifles on their backs.
A notice posted on the grocery store bulletin board last week invited the public to attend the end-of-year school concert, which I did Friday morning. It was wonderful. Qaqqalik School in Kimmirut, for all grades, is in the centre of town. Robert, the music teacher who is from South Africa applied for the marimbas through a grant. Playing bongos, Robert led each piece and the rhythm was so infectious it was hard to sit still.

Many of us in the audience took pictures.

The younger school children, musicians of the future

It was a wonderful concert and was repeated in the afternoon before judges who I hear gave the band a good score. Hooray for the musicians and for Robert!

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