Today was terrific day....It's been a long time since I had a total dog day and I sure have missed it. This morning was run #25 for my team. I harnessed everyone and then decided to hook them up to bootie them all because it's easier with some of mine that don't yet like to be bootied. Happy as a clam I am in my own little world wondering how Jazz and Fox Trot will do in lead together when all of a sudden 6 of my 9 dogs are loose and getting tangled up at my feet...WHAT THE....???? It seems that my smiley Siboon (who I have never seen chew) decided I was taking to long and chewed through his neck line and then through the gang line. "Okay" I say to myself "Now What?" Well as a friend of mine said Crisis Management. I unhook everyone and start trying to figure out how I am going to tie my gang line back together when I notice I have a few less dogs in the yard than before...now they have escaped out of the dog yard and down the trail they went. At this point I am thinking "Ohhh Forget It" but I already have harnesses and booties on everyone. I quikly fix the gang line, call the dogs back, start hooking up, make sure the gang line will hold, find the last 2 missing dogs (Lucy and Siboon, he was soo not in my good books) and away we went fianally. We had quite a little blizzard happening here yesterday morning with pretty high winds with wet snow and freezing rain. There were a few times the snow was blowing so hard into my face I had to put my head down and couldn't watch the team. I looked like a snow man on the back of the quad with all that snow sticking to me. My 2 little girls did really well for the most part but it's obvious they both need some more training. We broke some new trail yesterday and it ended up being 16.7 km or 10.3 miles and after our crazy morning we had a really great run and the dogs were loving all the new fluffy snow. After a little luch I headed down to my "other" dog yard to finish the photo shoot I started and was pleasantly surprised to be able to help hook up two teams. One team is all older dogs who have been to many races, what we call proven dogs or dogs with a resume. They are all in contention to run the Iditarod this year...so easy to harness and bootie just a nice team. The other was a team of CRAZY yearlings. Fun? Yes! But some of them are a real challenge to harness and ear splittingly loud. All in all it was a great day with dogs and good friends..can't wait to do it again soon. Here are a few pictures from the doggie photo shoot.
.....See You On The Trail.....
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