Had a peaceful/uneventful Thursday nite-- Up again not very early (I did have one
naughty “child” that insisted on barking in the middle of the night even when I
went into the back to verbally “correct”
him…. Because he wouldn’t stop I ended
up putting a tool box over the front of his door that pretty much blocked his
view and he finally stopped.
We fed breakfast and then tidied things up knowing we would
be making the hour or so trip to the race site this afternoon. I even colored my hair! Had to go into the barn and wash it out in
the sink, but you work with what you have!!!!
The trip to Epiphanie was good (we saw the Bellerives coming
home from Ontario on the other side of the expressway – in case I didn’t let
you know yesterday, Claude won the World Championship in the unlimited class
and Melanie in the 6!!!!) We are parked
now at the race site in the downtown area of the little city and got the form
to fill out for entering the race at the meeting at 7pm. The brochure says they are having pony rides,
horse-drawn wagon rides, fat tire bike rides, zumba and African dancing shows,
maple syrup on ice (called “Bar de glace et terrasse exterieure”), feestyle dog
shows, and art fair, ;and of course, the dogsled race!!! Sounds like a fun weekend coming up!! I will write tomorrow!
And today was a perfect day for dogsledders!!! About freezing and over cast. Didn’t have to be racing until 2pm (Randy
drew 2nd place in the draw) so went back to bed at 9 am to 11 am
–(feeling a bit achey breaky). Got the
dogs ready to go from 1 to 2 pm and took them up to the line (about a 100 yard
trip) good start off as it looked to me.
Now we are in the trailer doing the post-mortem on the race
– Randy had Oslo and Fred in lead and Fred did tremendous!!!!!!!!! He (as a 2 year old) ended up pulling Oslo
over most of the 13 mile trail. Randy
did get to 20.9 mph at some point and was at 18mph a lot of the time but said
the trail was so curvy that it scared him in a couple of places!! Some slush, some soft snow, some ice and some
flat and hard. With all that, he came in
12th of 18 teams! Not as good
as he felt like he had done but when you look at the names of the drivers ahead
of him and know how good those kennels are, it is very good!!! (I will keep
that up till he starts believing me…………)
It is quite good considering that Oslo in lead didn’t really pull he
just dipped a lot of snow!!
So tomorrow should be a great day now that he knows what the
trail is like and how the dogs performed today!! Homemade turkey soup from our house for
dinner!!!
1 comment:
Yay! I'm glad it was such a good day and sounds like an exciting place to be with lots to see!
Love you guys!!!
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