Never a dull moment!!

 Without power again!!  We thought we were going to miss having any power lines down from the 35 mph up to 50 winds overnite (almost made it to daylight………) and then when we got up the power and most or at least ½ of the snow were gone!!!

Over the last 3 days we were having some soft trail issues but the trail held up pretty good and we trained 12 miles the last 3 days until today………..now we are pumping out puddles (because they will never freeze solid until we get temps below 0 – with our sump pump – at least 3 huge ones without any way for the dogs to go around them!  Then tonite after dark, once it gets down to freezing again, we will drag the trail and try to get it smoothed out before it freezes!!

Went to town and had lunch – there won’t be any cooking going on at least until maybe tomorrow when we get power back- at Mickey D’s – we saw where the tree had come down over the power line and cut it in half!!!!  It’s pretty obvious that’s the problem but there was no  body working on it……………….

Went to the post office and mailed the last of the 4 holiday packages…………may not be coming down south to west Michigan until after Christmas to do the Baldwin dog race, so thought I would send everything to have there early!  We did enter 4 DeKuipers in the race on the 15 and 16 of January:  Randy in the 8 dog, Aeja and Oak in the 4 dog, and Aurea in the 3 dog – none of them have driven a sled before so they are going to have to get some practice in by visiting Jim Moe Moyer – they all wanted to try so let’s hope the snow is back by then!!!

Speaking of snow – it rained hard last nite with the warm temps and right now at 2:30pm it’s getting cold and snowing – so maybe it won’t take too long to get the trails back in tip top shape!!!

The remainder of daylight we spent changing out the straw in the dogs' boxes and giving them one of the 2 required shots needed to participate in the Wyoming stage race.

Up in one of my "middle of the nite can't sleep moments" and lo and behold, the power is back on!!!!   It's always nice when it happens before you think it should happen!!!  Now we have to see in the morning if there was enough snowfall during the nite to make it safe for dogs' feet to train on the trails today!!