We are victorious!!!!!!

 This is the bane of my existence finally brought to justice!!!!!!   My "bucket of water trap" was not getting it so we bought some brand spankin' new mouse traps and voila!!!!!!!  What I didn't know is that not only did we have a shrew problem.............but we also had mice visitors in the house!!!!  So we got 2 of them!!!!!  Now at least I don't have to be looking out of the corner of my eye at all times waiting to be surprised by that furry little critter!!!!!

The Christmas lights are up in Newberry again!!!

Zoom in on the picture to see some of God's beautiful artwork..................

Angry November day on Superior!

A very old cemetery out in the woods by Whitefish Point

The falls near Grand Marais

Beautiful October colors

We made a whirlwind trip back to Hesperia yesterday to take the 3 puppies to our friend Dee to take care of for the winter!!!!  Left at 5:15 am and got back home at Deer Park 5:30pm !!!  That included 2 McDonalds stops and several gas stations and picking up numerous things at out downstate house that we had forgotten!!!  It was pretty good weather and light traffic so we made good time!

Today we are going to train one group and not sure how far we will go - Randy found some dogs that will need to be booted to protect their feet from the icy mud puddles.  We did also bring back with us another sump pump (after the one we had up here took a dump) so we can get rid of some of these "lakes" the dogs have to go through on the trail and then freeze up over night so they break through the ice every time the run through them.

This morning they are opening up for entries for the Copper Dog 25 (a 13 mile race in February in the UP) and think we will enter.  So far our race season looks like 1). Tahquamenon 41 miles 2). Wyoming Stage Stop 35 miles a day for a week 3). Northern Pines in Wisconsin = I think 14 miles? 4).  Copper Dog and then maybe Laconia or who else knows where.............   A HUGE change in venues for us compared to our usual Quebec season!!!!!