Our Journal

Same as usual ....

2010-12-21T06:41:14Z

Well, you can tell I only update our website once a year. In full swing training for the season.

Well, ...

2009-12-29T19:14:09Z

As you can tell we don't add much to our journal as it's been almost year since we last posted. So, I guess that is a good indicator that we are pretty darn busy or that I enjoy Facebook more - ha!

Anyway, the dogs are all good and we are having a more "laid back" year because there is no Serum Run this year, we don't have a handler and Paul is planning only one race this year. We have one, Maize, that it seems that her Cushing's Disease and liver cancer is starting to get the best of her, but she is still a trooper.

Have a safe and Happy New Year!

The New Year

2008-12-30T22:08:05Z

Ok, I know I haven't updated the site often, but can I use the excuse it's a busy time of year? Anyway, the new year is almost upon us and that means the three races our kennel is running along with the Serum Run is just right around the corner - holy, cow!

All the four-legged kids are doing great and are ahead of schedule for our kennel. However, we have had some sad moments. Our main lead dog, Licorice unexpedately passed away back in November and the second to last of our very first core group of dogs, Bubba passed away in December. Both are missed dearly, however will never be forgotten.

Several of Licroice's offspring have stepped up to the plate to fill his void in lead, but it's hard to completely replace crazy Licorice.

The "pups" are almost seven months old and are doing 8+ mile free runs. The race dogs are doing 5+ hour runs consistently now and come back fresh as daisies. So, hitting the race trail soon shouldn't be to hard for them.

Joe and Lisa have been working really hard and Joe is getting ready for his first 200-mile race this weekend. However, he has the flu and we hope he feels better here in the next day or two.

I will do my best to keep things updated during the race season here this next month.

Happy New Year to all!

We are alive!

2008-10-09T20:01:34Z

Well, as you can tell I don't do a good job at keep our site up to date. SORRY! It's only October 9th and winter already seems to be upon us. It's snowing as I write and this isn't the even the first snow. It hasn't even been getting above freezing the last few days. So, just maybe we are going to have a real winter.

We started four wheeler training about a month ago and the dogs are starting to get stronger. We lost quite a bit of fall training trails this summer, so our fall training has been limited. That's okay because to be honest I (Erin) don't really care for fall training, but it's necessary.

All the dogs and cats are healthy. We did have to have old man Jose's eye removed due to a lens luxation, but he was blind anyway. He actually seems happier.

Joe and Lisa, our new handlers moved in a few days ago and will be back full-time in late October after visiting family and celebrating their engagement. They are going to be just great!

I have added some new photos to the site, but this crazy program doesn't do a great a job of it.

Past News:

On June 7th, Bird had a healthy litter of 8 pups. The pups are 1/4 hound and just crazy! Six of the eight are light colored and two are black and white. It's funny to see the light colored dogs because most dogs in our kennel are dark colored. It's been fun having the pups around this summer.

Speaking of summer, we really didn't have one. This summer was the third coldest on record for Alaska. We didn't have one day this summer where we wore shorts. We usually have a few 70-80 degree days where we even go to the lake in bikini's, but not this year - burrrrrrrrrrr! We probably only had a total of 14 sunny days since May.

We didn't take a vacation outside the state this summer, but did have several visitors from both sides of the family. It's always fun to play tourist in your own state.

Well, I better wrap this up. It's snowing like crazy and I need to go and find winter tires for the new car (I was in an accident that totaled our car back in February).

I will do my best to keep the site up to date.

New Additions

2007-06-28T23:31:51Z

Three weeks ago we adopted four husky pups. Their owner was killed in a house fire and we rescued them from Animal Care. There is one gray female - Fiasco, one gray male - Havoc, one black/white female - Calamity, and one black/white male (runt) - Trouble. This is our "Tragedy" group.

Post Winter Update

2007-06-28T23:31:21Z

Well, we just made it through another mushing season and it was a success! Both Paul and Erin met their goals and are looking forward to next season, but are first anxious for spring and summer to mow grass and grow flowers. Check under Races/Expeditions for details.

Winter may be upon us

2006-11-02T23:07:51Z

It's November 2nd and we've been training the dogs for almost 2 months now. We are still on 4-wheelers, but did get about 7 inches of snow last weekend. As of Monday the swaps were still too wet to run in because of all the rain, but we have had a couple of COLD mornings this week. It was even -2 this morning. So, winter may be upon us.

Training has been a little slow due to the excessive rain we've received the last couple of months, but the dogs seem to be stonger than they've ever been. Who knows.

We hired our very first handler - Matt Wagner. Paul and I have been taking of and training the dogs by ourselves for 10 years and this is still a very new concept for us. Matt is doing a great job for us and the dogs adore him. So, I think it was definately the right thing to do.

Paul has been back out in Ilimana working on fisheries stuff again for work. Hopefully, this is his last trip for the year. It will be nice to have him back at home because Kayla, Mattie and Ollie become even bigger bed hogs when he is away - ha! Just kidding, we miss him being around.