Sunday morning

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 1^st place and Suzanne in 12^th 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!!!