This is Wednesday – yesterday we trained 2 9-dog teams with
cold but sunny temps – everybody seemed to do well with the exception of Erin
that developed a fissure on her rear hind foot – we did the other 9 today and
it was much colder and windy – so Randy just trained the ones that didn’t go
yesterday – the trail was good both days and –mind you, this is just the
training trail up by the Cook’s cabin – not the race trail. The training run went fine although Randy
got much colder today - should
have had a face mask on and got cold hands even with the hand warmers in his
gloves –
Got done training and came back the 20 miles to Preeceville
and went to the hardware that Ray Cook recommended to buy a new microwave (actually the only place
in town to be able to buy one…) the hardware in Preeceville – they have
eveeeerrrrrrrryyyyyything!!!! We
also noted when we got out of the truck downtown that they have an impressive
park in front of the Preeceville elevator (many of these towns in the prairie
were built around the place where they could transport the grains they grew –
and very nicely they had a tribute to the Cook family for the years they had
put on the dog race and how well both Ray and Kevin had done racing in Manitoba
and Alaska and Saskatchewan.
Last nite had dinner with Kevin and Rhonda at their home and
delicious and what an ambiance!!!!
They too are Harley drivers and the living area is all black and orange
“Harley”!!!!
After getting back to Kevin and Rhonda’s today we saw this
monster tractor in the drive = John Deere green – it was ordered from the local
dealer to get the “monster” drifts out of the trail for the race this weekend –
Randy volunteered to ride with Kevin to groom the trail so I set about tidying
the trailer for the next one and half hours – when he got back Randy had quite
the story to tell – This huge huge huge huge tractor had broken through the ice
in the swamp on the race trail while Randy was riding with Kevin trying to
level the trail from the drifting – by the time Kevin’s son Wyatt brought Randy
back here to the trailer they had
all the city employees out trying to get the tractor un-stuck and even a payloader and a backhoe coming – not a good
day in the life of Kevin Cook…………….
Back here at the “camp” – new microwave set up and ready for
a hot dinner of peas, mashed potatoes and chicken!!!!!
- 7 here this morning with wind and Randy has decided that it's too cold to train - so a relaxing day at home - get the other 1/2 of the dogs toenails trimmed.....fun huh?????
1 comment:
Brrrr..... Try to stay warm! I think I'll stick with the 40 degrees we're supposed to get in MD this weekend!
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