I am updating you on the last several days - we did leave Fairbanks on Thursday after stocking up on food and necessities knowing that things would only get more expensive on the way home -
We made it to Jan Fairbanks' house in the afternoon and had dinner with her and her husband Bill - delicious chicken dinner and very good company - lots of good dog racing stories and history shared with Jan and Randy!!
Got up and had breakfast/lunch with Jan on Friday morning and then took off for Tok
Made it there in plenty of time for the Friday nite draw for the race and the banquet that the local people put on,........ham, turkey lots of different Alaskan specialty dishes - I couldn't eat enough!!
Sat morn I did the 6 dog race and was a bit unsure so used my drag for part of the trail - made it through the hard turns (at least I thought they were a bit hard......) that I remembered from last year and did 22 out of 25 teams running 3 old dogs and 3 young - one of the yearlings couldn't keep up so I left him off today and actually did a little better.
Randy had a fair run with a little problem with someone passing with trouble on the other guy's part and then he re-passed and still had trouble. so he came in last of 16 teams.
On Sunday I moved up to 20th and Randy put a yearling in lead that had never raced inlead before and he did good but it was still slow and he kept his 16th place position
Sat nite we went to the annual party at Dale Raito's and had a great time with the biggest bonfire I have ever seen and grilled salmon and tenderloin steaks and all the "fixins" - got to talk to many people I haven't been able to have a conversation with before = like Mari HOe Raito - Faye Cousins, Evelyn Beeter, Jack Berry, Dale Raito, and many more - agreat time!!!!
So tomorrow back on the road - we are only 2 hours from the border and then my coverage will be very "sketchy" - so I will contact you as I can
Pray for safe travel!!!
Monday, March 28, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
You must think I have totally forgotten to blog........
The fact is that no matter where I have tried to get on the internet the last 5 days have not worked so here we are at McDonalds!!!
By now you have probably been able to track the results of the race each day and know that Randy is the "proud??" recipient of the "red lantern award" for coming in 16th of 16! We were kind of prepared from the Rondy for not being able to place high, but we weren't "quite that prepared"!
Friday was one of those beautiful sunny cold Fairbanks days. We got to our parking spot which we were assigned to at the driver's meeting because we are sooooooo big - we actually had an alleyway pretty much to ourselves and it was only a good 2 blocks to the start line and not to hard to get there - the first day there was a truck parked right at the corner we needed to turn with 13 dogs on so it was a bit challenging and we used all the help we could get turning around that right angle corner!! Randy got off without a hitch and as soon as he was off I hopped into Gary Frank's rental car with Doug, his son and his brother and we buzzed over to the spot on the trail where the teams come back to town having run through Creamer's Field and go down an incline onto a "slough" (like a river running thru the city with 12 foot concrete walls on both sides - you will see a picture of (I did get to yell "go Carolyn" as Carolyn Johnson went under the bridge I was standing on) cause I didn't want to not be there when Randy came back in and with all the traffic we didn't know how long it would take to get back to downtown and the race site - we did make it back in plenty of time - in fact we could have stayed quite a bit longer........
Randy didn't have any problems except Paula Cinerio having trouble getting her dogs to pass our team and having to stop and untangle her team from our sled.....so that took a few minutes. Andy, one of our yearlings, ran in lead for the first time in a race (nothing like pressure for your first time.....) and he did good until Randy said he lost interest at about 16 miles so he ran Birdie back single the rest of the way - she sure is a good dog!
On our way out of our parking spot we got stuck in the snow they put down on the streets for the race and had to put the chains on....took us a little bit longer to get back out to the track to feed and settle in for the nite.
That nite just pooped from all the activity and went to bed early.
Up Sat morn and got to our race parking spot in good time - he ran 11 dogs as he thought Andy had enough trying to lead the day before and Red had not pulled for most of the 20 miles so he was out - you will be able to see many of the pictures as I post them, but a guy that lives near the musher's hall on Farmer's Loop road had stopped by to visit last week and said he would like to help us on Sat - well not only did he help but he took about a thousand pictures!!! He is up here by himself (his wife and son were here last week for spring break) working at a new job for Honeywell as an engineer - just before he had been working in Afghanistan - what a change in temp!!! he said it was 135 degrees and then came here to -40!!!! It was very nice to have the help and really nice for someone to do such a great job of documenting both Sat and Sun! pictures are something we never seem to have time to doi!
Before the race started Joey Redington Jr. asked us if we wanted a dog - one that had not run well for Jason Dunlap the day before - so he gave him to us ... out of his breeding and John Perry - kind of special to have a dog out of the stock developed by the starter of the Iditarod, Joe Redington Sr.!!
As you know by the results, Randy came in last again - not a big surprise but we were hoping he would gain some time not having trouble and may be someone else would be slower - it turns out that this is the first race (ONAC) in memory when nobody scratched! just out luck - if someone had, Randy would have been "in the money".
Sat nite we went to dinner with Gary Frank, Doug and Gary's brother to the Chena Pump House - Gary had said it was "pricy" but a fun place to go - so he picked us up in the rental and it was a very fun antiquy, Alaskan kind of decor - we ordered halibut because we were both dying to have some good halibut while we were here - not so good an idea......the rice came to us crunchy, the replacement potatoes were cold and the halibut was more like cold cardboard - we had a great time but were very disappointed in our "pricy" meal!!
Sunday was more of the same.....steady but slow - dropped 2 more dogs so he was down to 9 for the day. and Birdie, Bless her heart, was in single lead! They made it all the way without problems!!
Went back to the hall and fed and then changed clothes to go to the awards banquet in town at the Westmark Hotel. Randy was asked to vote for the fellow musher he felt was the best sportsman and we then had a fabulous meal with really good halibut, prime rib and something that really surprised me......fresh aspargus!!!!! I ate my fill and more!!!! RAndy was hoping that they would actually have red lanters for the last place "winner" (someone had told us they were now giving flashlights......) and they did have a lantern for us!! next they announced the winner of the sportsman award and we were totally shocked to have him win!!!! He received not only a moose stained glass award but a beautiful framed print that was signed by all the mushers in the race!!!
What a nite! I am so proud of him - Ken Chezik told him everyone felt he had had a bad year but kept on plugging away with a good attitude!!
Monday was training dogs that had not run in the race and spent some more time with the Hartum family. We had made arrangements to meet near Mike and Darlene Stephens home on Chena Hot Springs road and so we did at 5:30 - and Darlene brought us to their home - a work in progress, 2 story cabin in the woods with a dog yard as Mike races too. Darlene has the whole upstairs loft for her art work - beautiful and she gave me one of hers - she does "bars relief" out of wood so that you might use them for a "stamp" and then paints around them to make them art- and many other things made with granite, wood and paints........ I wish I had that imagination!
Tuesday we spent training more dogs and made a brief trip into town for fuel after we changed the belt on the generator one more time............ we have it down to only taking 2 hours so that's a new world's record!!!!!!
Today trained all the dogs for a short 5 mile, exercise , fun run and now are in town to use the McDonalds!!!!
Plan to stop and buy more groceries before we leave Fairbanks because this will be the last time things will be priced kind of reasonable (the other nite we got a gallon of milk at a convenience store and I was flabbergasted to have him tell me it was %5.69!!!!!) We are going to leave probably Thursday morning and stop at Jan Fairbanks' house on the way to Tok for the race this weekend -
Sorry I haven't been able to keep you caught up on our activities!!! will keep on trying!!!
By now you have probably been able to track the results of the race each day and know that Randy is the "proud??" recipient of the "red lantern award" for coming in 16th of 16! We were kind of prepared from the Rondy for not being able to place high, but we weren't "quite that prepared"!
Friday was one of those beautiful sunny cold Fairbanks days. We got to our parking spot which we were assigned to at the driver's meeting because we are sooooooo big - we actually had an alleyway pretty much to ourselves and it was only a good 2 blocks to the start line and not to hard to get there - the first day there was a truck parked right at the corner we needed to turn with 13 dogs on so it was a bit challenging and we used all the help we could get turning around that right angle corner!! Randy got off without a hitch and as soon as he was off I hopped into Gary Frank's rental car with Doug, his son and his brother and we buzzed over to the spot on the trail where the teams come back to town having run through Creamer's Field and go down an incline onto a "slough" (like a river running thru the city with 12 foot concrete walls on both sides - you will see a picture of (I did get to yell "go Carolyn" as Carolyn Johnson went under the bridge I was standing on) cause I didn't want to not be there when Randy came back in and with all the traffic we didn't know how long it would take to get back to downtown and the race site - we did make it back in plenty of time - in fact we could have stayed quite a bit longer........
Randy didn't have any problems except Paula Cinerio having trouble getting her dogs to pass our team and having to stop and untangle her team from our sled.....so that took a few minutes. Andy, one of our yearlings, ran in lead for the first time in a race (nothing like pressure for your first time.....) and he did good until Randy said he lost interest at about 16 miles so he ran Birdie back single the rest of the way - she sure is a good dog!
On our way out of our parking spot we got stuck in the snow they put down on the streets for the race and had to put the chains on....took us a little bit longer to get back out to the track to feed and settle in for the nite.
That nite just pooped from all the activity and went to bed early.
Up Sat morn and got to our race parking spot in good time - he ran 11 dogs as he thought Andy had enough trying to lead the day before and Red had not pulled for most of the 20 miles so he was out - you will be able to see many of the pictures as I post them, but a guy that lives near the musher's hall on Farmer's Loop road had stopped by to visit last week and said he would like to help us on Sat - well not only did he help but he took about a thousand pictures!!! He is up here by himself (his wife and son were here last week for spring break) working at a new job for Honeywell as an engineer - just before he had been working in Afghanistan - what a change in temp!!! he said it was 135 degrees and then came here to -40!!!! It was very nice to have the help and really nice for someone to do such a great job of documenting both Sat and Sun! pictures are something we never seem to have time to doi!
Before the race started Joey Redington Jr. asked us if we wanted a dog - one that had not run well for Jason Dunlap the day before - so he gave him to us ... out of his breeding and John Perry - kind of special to have a dog out of the stock developed by the starter of the Iditarod, Joe Redington Sr.!!
As you know by the results, Randy came in last again - not a big surprise but we were hoping he would gain some time not having trouble and may be someone else would be slower - it turns out that this is the first race (ONAC) in memory when nobody scratched! just out luck - if someone had, Randy would have been "in the money".
Sat nite we went to dinner with Gary Frank, Doug and Gary's brother to the Chena Pump House - Gary had said it was "pricy" but a fun place to go - so he picked us up in the rental and it was a very fun antiquy, Alaskan kind of decor - we ordered halibut because we were both dying to have some good halibut while we were here - not so good an idea......the rice came to us crunchy, the replacement potatoes were cold and the halibut was more like cold cardboard - we had a great time but were very disappointed in our "pricy" meal!!
Sunday was more of the same.....steady but slow - dropped 2 more dogs so he was down to 9 for the day. and Birdie, Bless her heart, was in single lead! They made it all the way without problems!!
Went back to the hall and fed and then changed clothes to go to the awards banquet in town at the Westmark Hotel. Randy was asked to vote for the fellow musher he felt was the best sportsman and we then had a fabulous meal with really good halibut, prime rib and something that really surprised me......fresh aspargus!!!!! I ate my fill and more!!!! RAndy was hoping that they would actually have red lanters for the last place "winner" (someone had told us they were now giving flashlights......) and they did have a lantern for us!! next they announced the winner of the sportsman award and we were totally shocked to have him win!!!! He received not only a moose stained glass award but a beautiful framed print that was signed by all the mushers in the race!!!
What a nite! I am so proud of him - Ken Chezik told him everyone felt he had had a bad year but kept on plugging away with a good attitude!!
Monday was training dogs that had not run in the race and spent some more time with the Hartum family. We had made arrangements to meet near Mike and Darlene Stephens home on Chena Hot Springs road and so we did at 5:30 - and Darlene brought us to their home - a work in progress, 2 story cabin in the woods with a dog yard as Mike races too. Darlene has the whole upstairs loft for her art work - beautiful and she gave me one of hers - she does "bars relief" out of wood so that you might use them for a "stamp" and then paints around them to make them art- and many other things made with granite, wood and paints........ I wish I had that imagination!
Tuesday we spent training more dogs and made a brief trip into town for fuel after we changed the belt on the generator one more time............ we have it down to only taking 2 hours so that's a new world's record!!!!!!
Today trained all the dogs for a short 5 mile, exercise , fun run and now are in town to use the McDonalds!!!!
Plan to stop and buy more groceries before we leave Fairbanks because this will be the last time things will be priced kind of reasonable (the other nite we got a gallon of milk at a convenience store and I was flabbergasted to have him tell me it was %5.69!!!!!) We are going to leave probably Thursday morning and stop at Jan Fairbanks' house on the way to Tok for the race this weekend -
Sorry I haven't been able to keep you caught up on our activities!!! will keep on trying!!!
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Happpy St. Patrick's Day Everyone!!!
After the meeting last nite we visited with the Hartum family and Cheziks and Amanda Byrd and Donna Reynolds -getting to know many, many more people! got to bed late and got caught up on some current events by watching the TV news that we have missed by not being able to even get on the computer.
Up early (for us anyway.....usual is 9 or so......) at 7 and went down to the restaurant for a very good breakfast. Drove back to our "home base" at the musher's hall for the 9am driver's meeting. We have been given a "special parking place" because our rig is sooooooo big -we get a whole alley to ourselves! Just now Randy left to ride around the trail so he gets familiarized with it with all the other people that have not run it before - as a sidenote, even though Randy did this race last year, the trail will be very different because last year they held the whole race here at the musher's hall (usually the race starts and ends downtown Fairbanks but last year the river started breaking up and someone drown in the are where the trail would be) and this year it is back downtown. They also had to talk about what to do if you encounter a moose on the trail and said you are allowed to take your "weapons" with you - we of course, don't have any weapons with us because you can't take them across the border...... The race marshal said if you see one call you handler or the trail crew and report it - but unlike what they tell you on the Quest....you don't have to gut it if you kill a moose- they do use "non-lethal" methods of deterring them if possible - and you don't want to encourage them to run on the trail because then they leave big "potholes" for the dogs' legs to get stuck in! I usually don't attend the driver's meetings for the races Randy only runs because most of the info applies to the person running the race but this one was interesting (and the trailer wasn't warmed up yet and luckily I have (for some reason) wifi today!!
Randy will probably be gone until 1 pm our time and then he says we will water dogs - then it will be time to drop and feed them 2 hours later!!! Drop and feed, drop and feed, drop and feed............
We have to be at our parking spot tomorrow morning at 11 am (race starts at 1pm) so probably early to bed tonite as well - Randy reminds me that if you feed earlier in the afternoon you are likely to have everybody poop good in the morning and don't have as much on the trail- speaking of which, we have one dog with diarrhea again- hope it is just "pre-race jitters" for him.....though I doubt he even knows it's "pre-race"! If you want to hear the race it will be broadcasted on 660 AM and I don't know if they have it on the website - I haven't even checked..
Up early (for us anyway.....usual is 9 or so......) at 7 and went down to the restaurant for a very good breakfast. Drove back to our "home base" at the musher's hall for the 9am driver's meeting. We have been given a "special parking place" because our rig is sooooooo big -we get a whole alley to ourselves! Just now Randy left to ride around the trail so he gets familiarized with it with all the other people that have not run it before - as a sidenote, even though Randy did this race last year, the trail will be very different because last year they held the whole race here at the musher's hall (usually the race starts and ends downtown Fairbanks but last year the river started breaking up and someone drown in the are where the trail would be) and this year it is back downtown. They also had to talk about what to do if you encounter a moose on the trail and said you are allowed to take your "weapons" with you - we of course, don't have any weapons with us because you can't take them across the border...... The race marshal said if you see one call you handler or the trail crew and report it - but unlike what they tell you on the Quest....you don't have to gut it if you kill a moose- they do use "non-lethal" methods of deterring them if possible - and you don't want to encourage them to run on the trail because then they leave big "potholes" for the dogs' legs to get stuck in! I usually don't attend the driver's meetings for the races Randy only runs because most of the info applies to the person running the race but this one was interesting (and the trailer wasn't warmed up yet and luckily I have (for some reason) wifi today!!
Randy will probably be gone until 1 pm our time and then he says we will water dogs - then it will be time to drop and feed them 2 hours later!!! Drop and feed, drop and feed, drop and feed............
We have to be at our parking spot tomorrow morning at 11 am (race starts at 1pm) so probably early to bed tonite as well - Randy reminds me that if you feed earlier in the afternoon you are likely to have everybody poop good in the morning and don't have as much on the trail- speaking of which, we have one dog with diarrhea again- hope it is just "pre-race jitters" for him.....though I doubt he even knows it's "pre-race"! If you want to hear the race it will be broadcasted on 660 AM and I don't know if they have it on the website - I haven't even checked..
A moose in our yard!
Randy was looking for the outhouse at the community center in Willow and I yelled and yelled at him to not scare the moose before I took a picture......no hearing aids, no hearing - I managed to get an "almost picture" of a moose teenybopper!
Now we really haven't been updating.............
I am sitting now in one of the dining rooms at the Westmark hotel in Fairbanks at the driver's meeting - we have not had a chance to write since last time as I still don't have access at the musher's hall and we haven't been anywhere except Walmart in the last several days
before I forget to mention......we saw the most beautiful northern lites last week = I was in the trailer and letting out dogs and Randy said "come out here>......" and I, not knowing what he wanted to show me........."What????" and he wanted to show me the green and white beautiful lights!!!!
Over the last several days it has been only training at the track and shopping at Walmart once and visiting with all of the mushers that were coming to the track to train before the race - we spent time with Mark Hartum and his family, Luke Sampson, Marvin Cokrine, the Sterlings, the Ellis', the Erharts, and many more I have forgotten.......a veritable "who's who" of the mushing world - we went to the DMV today and spent about 2 hours getting Randy his Iditarod license plate and then checked in to the hotel at 3p - the parking lot was full so we had to park a block away at the Masonic Lodge to feed and drop before the meeting - nice room but not enough time to hardly spend catching up on current events......
we have a musher's meeting tomorrow morning at 9am so not much time to spend tonite either - probably up at 7 or so to be able to be back at our "home base" the musher's hall, by 9am
sorry not too much good information - will try to do better being downtown the next several days - oh by the way, Randy drew #14 out of 16 entrants - the only people behind him are a rookie with some of Erhart's dogs and Greg Sellentin, the publisher of Mushing Magazine
talk to you tomorrow hopefully!!
before I forget to mention......we saw the most beautiful northern lites last week = I was in the trailer and letting out dogs and Randy said "come out here>......" and I, not knowing what he wanted to show me........."What????" and he wanted to show me the green and white beautiful lights!!!!
Over the last several days it has been only training at the track and shopping at Walmart once and visiting with all of the mushers that were coming to the track to train before the race - we spent time with Mark Hartum and his family, Luke Sampson, Marvin Cokrine, the Sterlings, the Ellis', the Erharts, and many more I have forgotten.......a veritable "who's who" of the mushing world - we went to the DMV today and spent about 2 hours getting Randy his Iditarod license plate and then checked in to the hotel at 3p - the parking lot was full so we had to park a block away at the Masonic Lodge to feed and drop before the meeting - nice room but not enough time to hardly spend catching up on current events......
we have a musher's meeting tomorrow morning at 9am so not much time to spend tonite either - probably up at 7 or so to be able to be back at our "home base" the musher's hall, by 9am
sorry not too much good information - will try to do better being downtown the next several days - oh by the way, Randy drew #14 out of 16 entrants - the only people behind him are a rookie with some of Erhart's dogs and Greg Sellentin, the publisher of Mushing Magazine
talk to you tomorrow hopefully!!
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Sorry about not being able to access you.....
We arrived safely in Fairbanks with good weather and good roads until the last 30 or so miles before Fairbanks - they had a bad snow storm a few weeks ago and must not have been able to get the snow off before the trucks packed it into ice - I have the most beautiful pictures of Mt. McKinley - it was a clear sunny day and there was only a little cloud right at the peak = I kept taking pictures when I could but naturally, my camera battery was almost gone!! We made it up to Fairbanks by about 4 pm and noticed nobody was at the clubhouse - after we fed we called and left a message with Shannon Erhart the club president - went to bed thinking maybe we missed the driver's meeting - got up to a sunny morning and as soon as she came to the clubhouse, Randy asked Shannon about be entering in the 6 dog and she said there were no enterings after the driver's meeting --------- so I was out of luck..........
Spent the day helping out other ski jour, 4 dog, 6 dog and 8 dog friends including Dawn Brown, here from New York. Through all this my back had been bothering be a bit and then with all the helping i did yesterday it got suddenly worse - it was probably a blessing that I didn't have to race 3 days - I feel bad for my dogs cause they enjoy it so much but it may have been bad for me.......
We went out to dinner with Becky and Dave and mostly all the Anchorage people we know to a restaurant in Fox "Dry Gulch" - I had halibut and it was good but not still what I have been yearning for.......
So today is Saturday an I laid low in the trailer and saved all my "strength" for helping Randy train this afternoon - he was out helping everybody while I read a book - Randy trained 14 dogs and and they went very good - he even took 2 of the yearlings I had planned to use in my team and they did good for 16 miles!!
So now we are in McDonald's so I can write to you.....will write more as soon as I can!!
Spent the day helping out other ski jour, 4 dog, 6 dog and 8 dog friends including Dawn Brown, here from New York. Through all this my back had been bothering be a bit and then with all the helping i did yesterday it got suddenly worse - it was probably a blessing that I didn't have to race 3 days - I feel bad for my dogs cause they enjoy it so much but it may have been bad for me.......
We went out to dinner with Becky and Dave and mostly all the Anchorage people we know to a restaurant in Fox "Dry Gulch" - I had halibut and it was good but not still what I have been yearning for.......
So today is Saturday an I laid low in the trailer and saved all my "strength" for helping Randy train this afternoon - he was out helping everybody while I read a book - Randy trained 14 dogs and and they went very good - he even took 2 of the yearlings I had planned to use in my team and they did good for 16 miles!!
So now we are in McDonald's so I can write to you.....will write more as soon as I can!!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
On the road again.....
Up and fed and dropped dogs and on our way by 12:30 - stopped in Wasilla to "Underdog Feed" owned by J.P. Norris and bought yet another "dog food" for the 2 picky eaters, this time tripe and liver........
called Stitt's (originally from Hesperia, near us) when we got to Willow and MIke came to pick us up after we fed - had a lovely dinner of German chop suey and blue berry pie along with the other dinner guest, Bob Klupach - a long time resident and musher, also having done the Iditarod - took a tour of MIke's including the Highlander calf they have, 2 cows and 3 pigs - strangely enough the other day they tried to put the calf in with the pigs to get it out in the nice weather and the pigs attacked it!!!
we did look at a piece of property of 15 acres and a small cabin for sale by Lavon Barve with access to the trails that Stitt's use with Greg Sellentin from Mushing Magazine, but they want $75,000 - not this year....
Back to the truck at the community center in Willow for the nite then up early to get up to Fairbanks in time for the draw and driver's meeting. Talk to you later!!
called Stitt's (originally from Hesperia, near us) when we got to Willow and MIke came to pick us up after we fed - had a lovely dinner of German chop suey and blue berry pie along with the other dinner guest, Bob Klupach - a long time resident and musher, also having done the Iditarod - took a tour of MIke's including the Highlander calf they have, 2 cows and 3 pigs - strangely enough the other day they tried to put the calf in with the pigs to get it out in the nice weather and the pigs attacked it!!!
we did look at a piece of property of 15 acres and a small cabin for sale by Lavon Barve with access to the trails that Stitt's use with Greg Sellentin from Mushing Magazine, but they want $75,000 - not this year....
Back to the truck at the community center in Willow for the nite then up early to get up to Fairbanks in time for the draw and driver's meeting. Talk to you later!!
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Last Day in Anchorage
Yesterday was our second "date" with Paul Herrick - he picked us up at the dog track and took us to Bear's Tooth restaurant!!! I had Alaskan pollock and we had a habenero french fries appetizer with an even hotter sauce to dip in!! not Randy's favorite - doesn't like anything hot!! after that we went to an Italian place for dessert - Paul thought there would be some "mafia types" at the bar but they were not there last nite - must have decided to hang out somewhere else!! finally we took a ride out to the coast and could clearly see Mt. McKinley as the sun was setting - I will post the pictures but it can't possibly show how beautiful it was - then we went a little farther and saw the city from the south looking down on it from the ocean and saw how fast the tide can start coming in - it was still and all of a sudden if looked like it was going 25 mph! We drove around Lake Hood on the way home and Paul showed us where lots of the small planes are parked on little inlets of the lake - some with skiis on and some with pontoons - hundreds and hundreds of them - he even pointed out a plane that he had tried to talk my brother into buying cause it was a super deal - I think he said it was worth $100,000 and it sold for $40,000!
Today is another beautiful sunny day - don't even need a hat training dogs - Randy just took out my team and the trail is hard packed and fast - and he's out now with 11 dogs - almost too warm to train but they need the exercise - this afternoon after training we will go shopping and then be ready to leave in the morning - Stitt's want us to call on our way through Willow so don't know how far we will get tomorrow.
Today is another beautiful sunny day - don't even need a hat training dogs - Randy just took out my team and the trail is hard packed and fast - and he's out now with 11 dogs - almost too warm to train but they need the exercise - this afternoon after training we will go shopping and then be ready to leave in the morning - Stitt's want us to call on our way through Willow so don't know how far we will get tomorrow.
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