Priorities and a word of caution!
Big news around here lately, Kaylee and I will be moving to Great Falls, Montana in about 1 week. This is a move home for us as we are both born and raised there, although we haven’t lived there for over 7 years. She accepted a new Vet Tech position at a great clinic that is really modern, uses all the new Vet technology (MRI, CAT scans) and has some great Doctors on staff, so that means we are all packing up and making the move!
Although I haven’t been posting I am still getting Grody in harness every other day but the runs just are not the same when you are hurried (we have so much to do before we move) or have other things on your mind (packing, working on trailer lights, finding a place in Great Falls, MT to live with dogs, packing!).
So Kaylee and I decided that we would pack our entire house up and just leave out 1 box of food to eat up for 2 weeks, and 1 personal box for our cloths, toiletries, etc. To last me 2 weeks I picked out 4 shirts, 3 pairs of pants, running gear, a tooth brush and….harnesses, foot repair goo, skijoring belt, lines, dog jackets, etc. When I realized the dogs had more stuff in my box than I do it was a moment of realization..now I know my life has gone to the dogs! At least I have my priorities straight!
Besides the moving stuff, I have found out that I am not totally geared up to be running dogs in this weird pre-winter, cold but little snow weather. I was out bikejoring this last weekend and even though we really haven’t gotten any snow in Rapid City there were a couple of spots in the high hills that had about a1.5 inches of loose, fluffy snow. I realized that there were times that even with the back break locked up, and me feathering the front break, with a jazzed up dog, I was on the verge of reckless. It’s a weird time right now, in a lot of places there is not enough snow here to be on skis or sled, and to much to be on bike or scooter.
A word of caution to folks the in the same boat…it gets pretty easy to over run the conditions between seasons and a great run can to to a tough run real fast. Bigger teams on 4 wheelers or larger wheeled rigs I don’t think have this problem but man…I took a biff yesterday, overrunning the conditions on a trail (dark out, rough footing, going downhill, trying to see by the beam of my headlamp, crusty icing crud on trail) while canicrossing, and was humbled when Grody drug me a good distance. Nothing hurt except my ego, but still, watch yourself out there!
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