We are back to the "good, the bad and the ugly"...................Q

 So no water for Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, tuesday................

Randy did fix the cracked pipe in the bathroom..................then did put the new heat tape on the exit water pipe in the basement of Jim's house.............then while he was in the basement of Jim's the new morning, I was not feeling the greatest so was laying on the couch and heard this "water" noise......got up rushed into the bathroom and found water gushing/spraying all over from the bak of the toilet and flooding the bathroom and hallway floor...  OMG how did this happen?????????  I turned off everything I could think of or see to try and stop the water but didn't find the right one!!!  I kept running outside and screaming for Randy to come and even tried to honk the horn of the plow truck (the plow truck does not have a working horn) After the flood we used every absorbent item in the house to mop up the water from the brand new floors we had put in the bathroom and the hallway!!!!!! 

then he looked at it again and thought it needed a new valve.............put that on and turned the water back on and another flood!!!!

Finally, no leaks and water to be used everywhere - a week later..............

Trained several days - not the one where I didn't feel great or when it was -23 F.) and everybody is looking good except for the 4 dogs we won't be able to use the rest of the season..............

The trails look very good here and we can easy do a 12 mile training run and plan to jump it up to 20 in the next day or two.................

right now we are thinking to go to Laconia and race and then go to Quebec and race after that - we are entered in 2 races in Wisconsin but will cancel and lose more entry funds! and right now we only have 13 dogs that are ready to race!

will let you know when we make some final decisions about when we are leaving!!!  Stay warm!!!