7:30 am. 23 degrees.
It was a balmy warm day at the kennel today. I’m getting quicker with laying out harnesses, so that went fairly well and we got out on the trail at a reasonable hour. We were fortunate the clouds stayed over us so it didn’t warm up too much for the dogs first [...]
7:30 am. 16 degrees.
I finally went into heat along with all the other femals at the kennel. Thank god there are no dogs trying to mount me anytime I get within two feet of them. Does that mean I can blame my last two weeks grumpiness on PMS? Or maybe that combined with the bruised [...]
7:30 am. 0 degrees.
It was chilly this morning. Back to old jacket which in a previous life was baby blue and now is various shades of tan. I heard boiling it in coffee for three hours is the only way to dye it without harmful chemicals. I will be buying coffee tomorrow.
Today it was me, [...]
7:30 am. 5 degrees.
Tried out a new North Face jacket that was described as a great sweater layer for summit expeditions on places like Denali and Everest, which I figured would be a great outer layer for Colorado. Not quite. As my boss said, it looks like a great mountaineering layer and looks fancy, but [...]
7:30 am. 4 degrees.
Sara was off today, so I ended up as harness girl, potentially the most dangerous job in the kennel. Laying out the wrong harnesses causes delay in getting the dogs ready to hook up to the lines. A harness that’s too small can pinch a dog and a harness that’s too big [...]
7:30 am. 2 degrees.
Another chilly morning. We are now getting into the rhythm of working together. Harnesses were laid out, four wheelers set up, baited water dished around and dogs ready to go. I was on the last team and had a couple of young females that were more interested in stirring up trouble than [...]
7:30am. 5 degrees.
Hoar frost covered the landscape; delicate feathers of ice clinging tentatively to grasses, shrubs and trees. The sun warmed up the day and we were able to get out of the kennel at a good time today. I had the power team of Dexter, Buck, Jaren, Bart, Stevie, Houston, the Three White Knights, [...]
7:00 am. 2 degrees.
First day back after turning 36. Yikes! Nothing seemed to go right today. 2 of the three four wheelers were too cold to start. Seems like the team work we had figured out a week ago had all fallen apart. Hooking up dogs was a wreck with lines not tight enough and [...]
6:30 am. 20 degrees.
Things ran much more smoothly today. We all seem to be stepping up to our strengths and finding a flow. We ran all the puppies together and they did well for the most part. We had one tangle, when B-bear’s team headed left around a set of posts then decided to cut [...]
6:30 am. 20 degrees.
We started early this morning with the hopes of running six teams altogether and cycling through most of the kennel. Kris, the owner, has left us completely on our own. I have to say we are all resisting it and frustrations are surfacing. Suffice it to say we have not found our [...]
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