Happy Halloween!!!! BOO!!

Well it was a very successful rig training session with over 300 dogs out pounding up and down our training trails across the road from us!!!!  The potluck was delicious as usual, and we had fun talking to people that we haven’t seen since last year’s session!  We enjoyed a talk from Dr. Tom Gustafson DVM about soliciting information from dog drivers about what vets should know about sled dogs and their health from the dog drivers perspective – he handed out forms to be completed anonymously to be sent back to Tom and then forwarded to the DVM group he belongs to. We talked to Marco and Annie Rivest and found out that Bellerive’s barn (I believe it was June when it burned down – no dogs were hurt – someone saw the barn burning and knew to turn them all out into the exercise field) is not re-built yet and that the dogs are being trained by Samuel LaForce right now – so we will be looking forward to calling Claude and Melanie to get an update on how this season is going to go for them!!

This week we trained Tuesday and Thursday following having trained at the rig session on Friday and Sunday 6 miles.   This week we took the same trails and added 2.5 more and made a really big change that impacted the “human” members of the DeKuiper racing team –we had been running 3 teams of 7 or 8 but Randy decided to break it into 2 teams of 11!!  Yes, it makes the time out on the trail shorter, but, boy does is ever equal more effort and stamina on out part!!!!!  I guess I wasn’t quite in shape to handle that many dogs without a break in between!!!  It all went well for the dogs it was just the “humans” that had sore backs and shoulders!

Wednesday we decided to go to Sault Ste. Marie to shop so we went to Dunham’s and I bought a new pair of training boots, out to lunch at a Mom and Pop eatery on the main street across from the Sault Locks and then to Walmart – and I still forgot some of the things on my list!!!!

Last nite, Halloween, we went over to Jan’s and watched the movie “God is Not Dead” and I carved our pumpkin and made roasted pumpkin seeds!  Today I have discovered that the phone is not charging again so we are trying to figure out how to make an appointment in Marquette (2 hours away) to maybe have the “Geek Squad” replace the battery – I did drop it in the sand out of my pocket while training which I think is what started the whole “not-charging” issue a couple of weeks ago – darn phones; can’t live with them and you can’t live without them!!!!

More later!!