Started out the day with about 3 inches or more of new
snowfall – they were already out on the trail with Claude’s big groomer (the
kind that snowmobile clubs use to groom trails and the one he uses at his home
for his own trail) when we got up at 8am.
The dogs seemed happy and healthy and ready to run this morning (except
for one that had diarrhea……)
Went into the community building to support the race
sponsers for the “Musher Entrée’ (eggs, toast, sausage, coffee, juice,
hashbrown and, the ever popular Quebec breakfast item………..baked
beans!!!!!! It always cracks us up when
we get beans served with out breakfast!!!
After I ate went to a very short Mass at the church next
door – all in French, 15 people there (including me) and presented by a member
of the church – priests are very few and far between here – there is a
beautiful steepled church in every little town but not enough priests to say
Mass on Sunday….. They also didn’t have
any local musical talent because all the music was recorded.
Next is drop the dogs and help our friends (Suzanne and
Mario, and Valerie’ and Yvan) with their 6 dog teams at 11. Valerie is in 1st place and
Suzanne in 12th out of 46 teams!
We make an effort to help them and then they come and help us get to the
line and then back again – I decided that I always need at least one other
person to get them started because Greg is one of those dogs that wants to be
on top of something when he is nervous (whether it’s you, the neck line or the
dog next to him….) and Dozer likes to pull back on the neck line with his mouth
so much so that he pulls the other dog backwards!! And if we have Chief over being out of shape
or injured (we think he is over being sore but maybe is just out of shape) and
he is at point, he pulls back on the main line so hard he pulls the leaders
backwards!!!!
Randy did talk to the 2 people that he had problems that
warranted stopping yesterday – Claude (because his dogs got tangled while he
was passing Randy while Randy was stopped after trying to pass Rosiare……….) and
there are not hard feelings….just happens..!
More after Randy’s race at 2pm!!!
1 comment:
Sounds like an exciting weekend! Good luck today, Randy!!!
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