First time to use the snow machine to train!!!

 since Thursday we have gotten even more snow (not like New York state though...............) and we were able to run the snow machine to train the dogs on sunday!!!  It was a lot less bumpy and more comfortable for me to ride on!!!  You don't feel all the holes and roots in the trail as easy!  There's about a foot of snow on the ground and enough that Randy plowed the driveway with our plow truck - 

We ate out at the Wolf Inn - which is a restaurant on the way to Newberry that has been closed for a while - once whitefish that was delicious and once nachos supreme - new owners and management and the menu is good!!

Monday we started out at 6 am to drive to Detroit for the funeral service of Bill's (our son-in-law, Amy's husband) mother.  We expected that it would take 6 hours and that's what it was - got there in time to have some family visiting time, stayed for the service and then drove back home to feed dogs at 10p!!  The roads were good all the way except for the 1/2 hour drive from our house to Newberry and we used 4 wheel drive on the truck!

the angry straits of Mackinac - it's usually pretty calm but the winds were from the right direction today to make white caps and 3 foot waves!

Coming back across the bridge tonite - less wind and pretty with the bridged lighted for the holidays!

Tomorrow Mitzi and her family are here for for a couple of days so the kids will be able to see how training dogs goes and maybe some winter fun activities!!!  Have to take some good pictures!!!