Time for an update on the final leg of the trip
------------haven’t had much time since we left Traverse City – got home early
afternoon and immediately got stuck in the driveway………..about 1.5 foot of snow
and the 4 wheel drive couldn’t even handle it!!! While Randy worked on getting unstuck I tried to get into
the house: note the emphasis on “tried” – I got the key to the front door from
its hiding place and it wouldn’t work – I tried the other 2 doors on the front
of the house and no go….then I walked around the house in the deep snow to see
if I had left any windows open (and of course I had insisted that we lock the
sliding glass door up on the balcony!)
No open windows – so maybe the lock is frozen, so out to the
stuck truck to get the lock de-icer (trying not to let Randy know that I can’t
get into the house to start a fire and get the house warm while he is already
having a bad day….) – the lock de-icer didn’t work and I was forced to admit to
Randy that I couldn’t get the key to work…………so he tried it and it
opened!! By that time he had
gotten the truck and trailer un-stuck and had plugged in the backhoe and started
charging it to make a space to drive in the drive way and park near the kennel=
got the driveway clear so he could back the truck and trailer in- next was
dropping the dogs – did that and got a fire going and found out when he turned
the water on that the water lines had frozen………….several trips down into the
crawl space/dirt basement and still no water – un-pack the port-a-potty…………fed
the dogs at the trailer and put them back in their boxes for the nite. Still no water…………good sleep in the
bed!
By morning the toilet water was filling (big deal____) and
we had water in the kitchen but not the bathroom. Fed the dogs breakfast and then started the overwhelming
task of moving 27 crazy with energy dogs back into the kennel!!! We got 9 of them out and had to take a
break – then we got 5 out and had to take a break – then we got 4 and took a
break – talk about slugging through the snow!!!!! Plus for every dog we had to
dig out a place for them to be able to get in their house! Finally got all of them moved about
noon and then had to dig out the new pole barn door to be able to get the
yellow pick-up truck out…………went to our neighbor Dee’s to take her more meat
(she is caring for our 11 pups for the winter) and get more dog food bread from
the truck we have parked there – then we went over to look at our training
trail (that was in pristine condition when we left 3 weeks ago…) and
surprisingly, they look like snowmobiles have been using them - so tomorrow our job is to drag the
trail and get it in shape for training again – hopefully put some faster miles
on them and then go out to Quebec to the Daaquam race in 3 weeks!
Happy Valentines Day and will post as soon as we have
news!!!!
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