Doggos...

The other day I received an email from the woman who we got Mac the puppy from. In it she referred to one of his litter mates as a lucky doggo. Well that was a new one for me, so googled it up and found out that doggo and puppo (or pupper) are internet memes for cute dogs. So not wanting to be left out of this new age stuff, figured there better be a doggo post. 

Back in June, when we got the puppo (Here and Gone 6/28/20), he was pretty small. But we were told his mother was part MacKenzie River husky and they can be pretty big doggos.

So here's the puppo when he was about three months old, he weighed maybe 25 lbs, and was getting a lot bigger, especially his ears.

So now he's a big doggo at 65 lbs (that's about 30 kg to the French) and he takes up half the couch.

But he still likes his belly rubs!  OK, that's it for the doggo/puppo meme, from now on, they'll just be dogs.

Snowed in...

 After enduring a week of 20-30° F below, it warmed up and snowed almost two feet. We had half a dozen intermittant power outages and I spent most of last week plowing snow. Since the snow was too deep to run dogs with the 4-wheeler, figured I'd put the sled trail in. So headed over hill  to break it out. Only made it to the valley bottom where I got stuck with the old Ski Doo. Had to walk a mile home on the soft, freshly broken trail. Andy and I went back the next day with a come-along and snow shoes and did an “intervention” to get it out. While she snow shoed out about a hundred yards and made a turn around, I hooked the come along to the only nearby tree, and pulled the Ski Doo out from between the tall tussocks where it had gotten wedged. The real excitement came when it started raining as we headed back, making the trail soft and slippery, so we got stuck a few more times before getting home. Now there’s only a two mile loop to run the dogs on, but eventually we’ll get’er extended out to meet the main Smallwood trail.

Here's the team coming back into the dog yard,. The trail's hard and fast now that it's cooled off again, so it felt like we were almost flying coming down the hill. The two new dogs, Mac and Gus add a lot of power and Missy and Tamarack are doing a decent job up front. The team's coming around and we can hope for mo' better runs to come!