Finally I have the internet!!!!

Hello!!!  Just sitting here in the trailer at Bellerive’ watching tv on our “English speaking station”!!  Crazy but I am really looking forward to seeing some of the shows I can only see here (“Murdoch Mysteries” and “Heartland”).

We did leave on Wednesday (packing up the whole house again like from the fall – and just dumping it all every which way into the trailer) and had figured out a way to get the dogs out to the trailer (we have left it parked across the road in a parking area for the last 2 months not wanting it go through what we did last year………….digging ourselves out of the driveway for 4 hours…………) we hooked 2 teams up to the snowmachine and ran them over there (about ½ mile) to the trailer and didn’t even put harnesses on them…just ran them off their neck lines !!!  worked pretty good except for the leaders……….. Got on the road about 1p and had to stop in Newberry at the license bureau to get a different plate for the truck – they go by different standards in Canada so it is one way of trying to placate the “Canadian DOT”. 

So far I have only identified 2 things that I forgot from the Deer Park house…………my favorite shirt I just got at Christmas………….and the bottom to the toilet!!!!!!  We have used a camp toilet for forever and I went to use it and opened the lid and saw the carpet underneath!!!!!!  Took it out to clean in the spring and never put it back!!!  On to “Plan B”!!

It was snowing pretty hard so we had the truck in 4 wheel drive as far as we went – which was only about 4 hours!!!  We got through the border crossing at Sault Ste. Marie without problems but then thought the roads were getting too bad so we pulled off close to Sudbury.  Slept the nite in a “un-official semi trucking parking place” in a little town –

Next morning (Thursday) on road again…………got a call from JR Saucier telling us the race in Quebec is canceled!!!!!!  We are ½ way to our Quebec home so it’s a toss up-----we decided to go east (it would have been 340 miles to go back for the race in Kinross in the UP or the same to go east)

Good travels – no problems – got through Ontario without the “evil DOT” stopping us again this year!!!

Into Bellerive’s drive at about 10p and to bed at midnight!

Friday saw Claude briefly and found out the race at L’ Epiphanie was canceled because of the rain they had the nite before and it had made the race trail unsafe.

It was very icy on the parking area here at Bellerive’s so we opted not to train the dogs on Friday or Saturday.  Today (Sunday) we took out 2 teams of 8 with the snow machine and in a blizzard!  The dogs did well though the first team went off the trail a bit because none of us could see the trail!!

Tonite we get to have dinner with the Bellerive family in the house and re-renew our friendship!!!

Today is Wednesday and I thought that on Sunday at Bellerive's we would be able to get on the internet but for some reason it wouldn't work for me..........so today we are in the A & W in Shawinigan so I can give you the latest news!!!

The biggest action this week has been the weather - I know we are not alone...........snow, snow and more snow!!!  The big road grader from Bellerive's company has had to plow our parking area twice already!!!  We managed to run the dogs for a short exercise run yesterday but they pretty much had to wade through parts of the trail that had blown in!!!

Really this is the first day we have have even un-hooked the truck and gone any where!

The plan going forward is another exercise run tomorrow and then pack up and go to the St. Luc race site on Friday.  It is about 1.5 hours away.  This is the race that Claude Bellerive sponsors and put the trail in with the equipment from his company and his own trail groomer - then there is a week with no race and then hopefully the next one will be in Laconia NH!!!

I may be able to post on Friday on our way to the race if there is something exciting to say.........sorry it took so long for me to post!!!