Update as of 1/19/21

 Monday January 18

What a beautiful day – sunny and somewhere around 30 degrees (I can only get service on my phone once in a blue moon so it’s hard to tell and we didn’t replace the thermometer we had in the trailer last year yet) and a training day for us – 

We are still running 2 teams of 7 and 8 (because Dannika is still out with an injury which we hope she will be recovered from by the time we race in Wisconsin on February 20) and the first team out I borrowed Bruce’s snow machine and Ryan Beaber led the team and I followed (the leader cautions snow machine traffic to slow down because of the dog team) because I had not been out to the turn around yet and didn’t want to mess Randy up – so we made it around the turnaround and Ryan took off back to the trailers and I led them back home.  It all went very well – there were still lots of snow machines out on the trail  - I had forgotten it was Martin Luther King day and thought there would be much less traffic!  The second team I did by myself and I made it around the hairpin turnaround without getting the dogs tangled!!!  While driving the snowmachine I thought I had understood Randy’s instructions about controlling the heat on the handle bars………..I thought it was too warm and tried to cool it, but the right hand I need to stay on the handle bar to control the speed got blistered!!!!!  Chalk it up to work comp!!!!  Guess I need thicker gloves!!

When we got back Magnussons and Beabers had cooked out hot dogs  and invited us over to a super lunch!!! They even had sushi from the local market!!!  It was perfect to come back from almost 4 hours of training to a lunch already for us!!!!

The rest of the day was napping and feeding and dropping and dropping again…………

I have looked and looked in almost every place I can think if in this trailer where a mouse might have a nest……..to no avail!!!!  I am running out of ideas!!!

Tuesday, January 19th 

Much colder today and windy – clear with a beautiful sunrise over the mountains – we are surrounded by them and the training trail is a pass that goes through them – I will take some pictures soon and post them…… yesterday would have been a perfect time to do so but I used all my energy training and looking for mouse nests!!!!

Both Ryan and Bruce trained teams of 15 and16 this morning – they left together so they could practice passing – pretty cold! But the trail should be harder today.

Randy is trying to unhook the truck from the trailer and having some difficulty because the pump the lowers the supports on the trailer was frozen – but then we may go into town and I can post this and find out how my sister, Karen is doing have her hip replacement re-do………..  by the sound of it we are unhooked!!!

Tomorrow we will train again and then every other day until some time next week – like maybe Wednesday and then give the dogs a rest until they start racing on Saturday – that is if it is still a “go” – we won’t be sure they won’t cancel it until we actually start racing!!!