7:00 am. 18 degrees.
Days have been reaching the 40’s and while it’s hard for the dogs to run in the heat, I’m ready for a little sunshine and an end to winter!
Had a tour with Kris where I couldn’t do anything right, but that’s par for the course, so didn’t let it get to me. [...]
Every year we lose a few good workers at the end of February and into March. B-bear had his knee hurt and now Beagle has left us. He was offered a job in Arizona that he couldn’t turn down. It was sad to see him go, but we had a great party the night before. [...]
7:30 am. varying degrees between -2, 23 adn -14.
Rolex, one of our puppies loves to watch. He climbs up the fence, rests his front paws over and checks out the action in the kennel. He has no interest in jumping over, he just likes to observe.
The thirteenth started out with a warm morning and a [...]
7:30 am. 13 degrees. It’s a little chilly and I’m on my way into work to water the dogs, pick up poop and possibly booty them for a morning trip. Kris calls and asks me to scrape out the cedar chips from the dog beds in the truck and replace them with hay. I’m happy [...]
8:00 pm – Monday night. I get a call from Kris asking me if I want to abuse myself. I generally love a little self-abuse, so I agree. He’s referring to a training session for his race dogs up on Buffalo Pass, then a few hours sleep and more training. I agree, excited but nervous.
Keep [...]
6:30 am. 25 degrees.
Balmy morning that barely required gloves. I love it. The race team was heading out as we got in. E-bear and Kris were narrowing down his top picks for the upcoming ‘Race to the Sky’ in Montana. Last year Kris had walking pneumonia so had to miss it. This year he’s looking [...]
6:30 am. – 3 degrees.
The days have been warming up quickly and I’ve been loving it, although we could use a bunch more snow and a little less heat. The trail had patches of large flakes of ice which made it sparkle as the sun hit and we went around.
My first tour of the day [...]
6:30 am. -12 degrees.
Fingers and toes were burning as I forgot toasty toes and hand warmers today. Sara lent me a pair of toasty toes, so that helped a bit. Warmed up quickly and was soon in the 30’s and I was peeling off hat, gloves and jacket. The tour went well. We ended up [...]
6:30 am. 23 degrees.
Headed back to the kennel for some bad news. Sara had called yesterday to see if I wanted to come in and I declined, as I had other work for another company to take care of. B-bear was left to do the tour. A man fell off his sled and as it [...]
Headed to Aspen at 2:45 am to attempt the Guinness World Record for Most Hugs in 24 hours. I went down with two witnesses, Chris and Mike. We hit Aspen around 6:45 am.
We initially met with a bit of resistance as no one wanted to approve something that wasn’t organized by X Games and ESPN. [...]
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