halleluiah!!!!!!! I have a phone!!!!

Talk about stress!  one hour coversation with the apple advisor on the phone yesterday adn 2 hours today adn finally have the phone working again!!!  I can't believe how difficult.......did chat online with 4 people, telephone with 3 and then finally with a senior advisor from Apple that fixed the problem by taking over my computer!!!

Trained 2 teams today adn Chase the yearling did the best of the 3 so far!  and I even made all of the turns!  hopefully it will not be raining in the morning and we can do 2 more teams!

Tues Wed

When they tell you that they have a new update for your phone..........beware!!!!!!  Monday nite I updated both the phone and the computer and still have been locked out of the phone even with 4 chat sessions and a hour phone call with apple today!!!  I thought it would be fun to have my fingerprint as a security feature and then decided not - and thaTt was the beginning of my trouble - it is supposed to be restoring from icloud as we speak, but I don't really have much faith.....

Got the part for the fridge on Monday and it is still not working right - running about 60 degrees -so I don't know what the next step is....

Finally cold enough to train 2 teams of 8 today and it went very well!  I even made all the turns both times!!!!!  I think it is supposed to be cool the rest of the week till rain on Saturday so we should get several good runs in.  The 3 yearlings ran again today since they were started a month or so ago - they forgot most of what they are supposed to do but did OK

Tomorrow more training and maybe figure out the phone and the fridge!!!!!

Saturday Sunday and Monday

Couldn't add in the descriptor for the pictures after I had downloaded them to the blog sooooo....the pictures are of our camper and site, the restaurant in Grand Marais, an angry Lake Michigan on Saturday by Manistique, a beautiful Lake Superio r on the way to Grand Marais with lots of beautiful stones on the beach, and the stones that I picked up, blueberries that I picked and put in pancakes, the funny little museum ma

We got back from getting the computer board for the fridge in Escanaba and had time to stop at one of the 2 grocery stores in Newberry to pick up something to bring to Jan Shaw’s get together (it was like a neighborhood wake for her having lost her husband, Bob, 2 weeks ago).

It was a lovely get together with lots of neighbors for us to meet –ie. The previous owner of the Deer Park Lodge and store who is now 93 and is named Randy, the Caldwells, the lady named Betsie that used to own a horse farm near Detroit with jumpers and then fjords and then bought Rhinehart’s place up here, Ambush and his wife Donetta, Carol and her husband John that live year round on Perch Lake, the owners of Rainbow Lodge that are re-building after the fire that burned them out, any many others I didn't get to talk to.

Today, Monday we went to Kinross to get another part for the fridge and right now it looks like it is working.  I was too warm to train so we figure we should see some of the sights!!!

Friday/Saturday

Didn't train today - the "me" part of the training team was feeling wimpy so instead we went into Newberry and tried to go to a museum that was supposed to be open but wasn't.....and did stop and buy a pumpkin! They are a little more expensive up here!!!  you don't see any pumpkin patches on the roadside!  The trees are maybe 25% color and really starting to be beautiful.  The prettiest was the nite before when we took a ride on the dirt road going past Muskellunge Lake on the way to Grand Marais on shore of Lake Superior, darn if I didn't forget to bring something to take pictures with!

We also moved the trailer about 50 feet in preparation of the big rainstorm we got last nite - the last time we had the awning and the carpet and all the outdoor stuff in a 5 inch deep puddle!!!!  so we will see how this location works. 

Randy is still sleeping and the store for the refrigerator part is open only from 9-4 today so I had better get him up and going - it's a 2.5 hour trip there and need to back to go to an "open house" that Jan Shaw is having for the neighbors at her house tonite at 6. 

October 5

Was also too warm to train on Wednesday so we ate breakfast and drove to the east side of Escanaba to Bark River where Greg Janders has made dog food for us (since we would not be at our house and able to pick up venison scraps and grind our own dogfood for the winter)  We got one ton of special made-for-racing-dogs food and put it right into the freezer that Jesse helped us put into the horse trailer so it is mobile.  It was about 2.5 hours over and on the way we stopped at an RV place in Escanaba to ask some questions about our failing refrigerator--- it has been getting warmer and warmer every day since we left home anoluster Alert!!!!  Why did I think it would be just a normal training day?????   The first team of 7 did not want to folllow me on the 4 wheeler ahead of them and then the leaders got in a fight and then Muggs got loose from the team and had to be caught - we ended up haveing me with a rope to the leaders in my hand for the first 1/4 mile so they would follow me and then I let go of the rope and they went fine after that.  Second team cluster:  as we were leaving the point dogs got in a fight and as I was turning around to see what was happening I turned the steering on the 4 wheeler and flew off into the soft  pine needle ground - Randy said I looked like a scarecrow flying through the air--no injuries, just like normal when I fall!  Got these leaders following us much better than the first two and while I was looking back to see how close Randy was following, I missed the ribbon in the tree where to turn.........when I got to a great big mud puddle that I had not seen before I knew I had missed the turn---  soosoooooooo we had to turn the 7 dogs around in trail in the big mud puddle and we just went straight back home =  probably the same distance as if I had made the turn.  

Spent the afternoon trying to trouble shoot the refrigerator computer and it looks like it's the computer board ($150) versus replacing the refrigerator ($2000)  so we will go to Escanaba again on  Saturday to get a replacement computer board ( it is supposed to rain Sat so we won't train anyhoo)

training another team or 2 tomorrow - hope it goes better than today - part of the reason it was quite different for the dogs to start out is that we are starting from right inside the kennel with all other dogs barking at them and being excited - so they will have to get used to it and it will be smooth as silk!!!!!!