Friends

My best friend was down to visit relatives last week and we managed to sneak out for a while without anyone else tagging along. No easy task, he has 2 kids and I have 5! We hadn't seen each other face to face in a year and a half. All together we were hanging out for 7 hours and we did a grand total of nothing. You know you've got a good friend when you can do nothing and have a pretty good time doing it!

Merry Christmas

Lucy With Her Awards

Here's the newest pic of Lucy showing off her hard earned awards from P&P. If she was leaning into me any harder she would knock me over!

Rememberance Day

It's rememberance day. Please take 2 minutes at 11 o'clock to remember those who gave all so we could enjoy the freedom we enjoy today. There is nothing short of a life and death situation that should stop anyone from pausing for just 2 short minutes of respect. In the words of Terry Kelly, "it's a pittance of time".

Lucy's Day In The Spotlight

We were at the AMHL Pac N Pull event over the weekend and had a great time. We made a lot of new friends there and the dogs enjoyed themselves. Dawson spent most of his time being.. well.. Dawson, so there were lots of "time outs" for him to chill out in the car.

I entered Lucy in the weight pull event just to see if she would actually move the sled. To my surprise she was pulling like a seasoned vetran, not the first timer that she really is. We hung in for quite a while, but once the sled got over the 800 lb. make we were done. We weren't properly equipped to be pulling that kind of load anyway. She did make a full pull at 735 lbs in her regular X-back sled harness.


When all was said and done we finished in 4th place overall. She took 2nd in her weight class as well as best rookie honours. She weighed in at 68 lbs. and pulled 10.8 times her own body weight.

Newest Pics

Just got some new pics from our last run back in early March. Man I miss the snow and cold weather. This summer is supposed to be just like last year,which isn't good for northern dogs.

This pic is from Dec.05.

Nothing Since November... wow, I'm late

This was probably the worst winter for snow I've ever seen. The sled was parked for all but about 3 weeks. That makes for some very lazy dogs. As soon as I finally gave up and put it away it was time to try out a new way to get injured.... scootering!

I have had Dawson out pulling a scooter before, but taking both dogs out at the same time was a little intimidating. I know they were pretty quick hauling the sled, but snow offers a little padding when you wipe out. The thought of all that concrete and asphalt had me pretty worried.

The first run was pretty wild. They were literally flying down the road. There is no resistance pulling the scooter compared to the sled so they took full advantage of that. Full out run for at least the first 2 miles. I have found out that when people told me to stock up on brake pads they weren't just joking. We eat up all 4 pads on each and every run. I ride the brakes pretty hard to keep the tension on and to get them working.

There was one night when we were out on our usual run and almost had a "trip to emerg" accident. We were on the sidewalk heading for a busy road. This was a downhill run and right at the bottom of the hill we have to go hard gee or head right out into traffic. The usual drill is ot call for the turn, nail the brakes, and go around the corner slowly and in control. Well as soon as I hit the brakes the back cable snapped right of at the handle. Nothing can get you heart racing like a loss of stopping power right when you need it the most.

We did manage to make the turn using the old tried and true Flinstone braking system. The rest of the run was uneventful and BOTH cables were replaced the next morning.

We're still having fun, running almost every night, but summers is coming fast. It's going to be back to boring old walks for a while until things cool off again.