Dealing with the "aftermath".............

Right now we are sitting in the parking lot of “Alignment Maurice” waiting to get the truck in for our 8am appointment – that’s right 8am………..meaning we got up at 6am in order to drop the dogs and get ourselves ready and drive the ½ hour to get here!!!  I guess Randy says we probably could get along for a little while with the steering wheel a quarter but that any time we were on dry pavement it would wear the tires badly.  We didn’t know it when we were driving here because we just had the address to plug into the phone, but this is the same place we came to buy a tire 2 years ago when we got a flat in the rain on our way back from Woburn………………..come to think of it, that’s two really bad situations we have run into traveling to or from Woburn………..hmmmmmmmm

So since our exciting last Friday we have trained twice – Hermel took the groomer around on Sunday nite and Randy rode with him for the first go-round – there was almost 2 feet and in some places more snow to move around and plow through to get to a packed trail- and still it wasn’t very smooth when he got done after 4 hours!  Monday Claude trained and Katie and Martin Degenais also drove 2 hours to come and train their 8 dog team.  After they were all done we trained 15 dogs with the snow machine and we tried out a new leader from Claude (Island is her name) and she did very well!  Tuesday we added in the dog that has seemed to be hurt for the last couple of weeks (Candy) and ran her on the neck line without a harness just to see if she looked “rehabilitated” (and she did) with the other 15 dogs for an even 16!  Seems like a long time since we have run that many dogs at a time – and to think Randy used to run 20 frequently and 22 once at Kalkaska!!!!

So today is the alignment, and tomorrow we leave for Laconia, New Hampshire for a 3 day race – so lots of preparations to be made!!!!................and I get to look forward to another border crossing!!!