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Old news 2008 2009---2011

16/1 Time for a little update. Buisness as usual-I am too much of a Next years musher these days...For the 3 winter. Training proceed as usual okay on cart until november comes, then starts the traveling-hazzle. Almost 3 weeks without car did not help (but at least car repair got cheaper than feared since I managed to find a used part) then came the periods that we did not have for the last 2 seasons, the slick icy part for weeks and weeks. So slick at times I could not even let the dogs out in the big pen in fear of injuries. And there is not much traveling to find snow these days. Oh do I miss the last two winters trails outside the door....
Renovating is going slow, but forward. It takes much more time than I thought, but its getting very nice.
I have destroyed my third Canon Ixus, so now I have no small camera rto keep in thre pocket again...The Eos is not as practical to bring along. Next time I will get a waterpproof camera that do not retreat its lense... Maybe then no sand or dogfoodcroms will get stuck inside it....

1/1-2012 Tamsins puppies have left the nest. The male Finn Otto stays here as for now, Chika is with Lene Halvorsen on breedingterms. A very sweet, tailwagging gang

Finn-Otto, Tuna, Tinka, Chika and Saga

Happy new year 2012!

24/11 Poor Skarv cut his toe really badly, probably on a metal doghouseroof. Big chunk of the toe was sewn back on and I feared to have this hyper guy living inside for long time. But sometimes you get a surprise:) Skarv is a smart guy and he behaved so calm and nice living inside for 5 weeks. Part of the toe is forever gone, but hopefully it will not affect him when running.

19/11 I have finally made a Gallerypage for the Rohan-litter. (Ronny and Hanne helped them to the world:) They are 3 weeks now and still living inside thanks to the large cage in the kitchen. A very cute bunch:) At the moment the male puppy is available. We have a mild fall this year, no snow. I don`t miss it actually, since I always fear the blue ice covering everything if it snows too early. At the moment the Dyck cart is out of order waiting for major repairs and yesterday my faithful car stranded with some expensive repair comig up...its a hazzle to be without car living in the countryside. I have a bundle of ehadlamps but now hardly anyone work again. House its chaos but slowly getting there. Oh well. Thats life.

30/10 We participated in the last rigrace of the season, Haloween race, 6,6 km at Mangen. Soscialble event and I brought the 3 youngsters to get some soscialisation, but boy even with few trips out in the world, those 3 are very peopleloving and soscial by nature! Since I now has destroyed my third Canon Ixus by having it in my pockets without cover, no photos from this event. Since Ravn has problem with keeping up speed in long downhills, alternative leaders was Nayak, Haidi and Znoke- Lost time when Haidi and Nayak did not listen very fast in a crossing and Znoke bolted from the speed in the hills back down. I had to stop and go very slow to get her going again...But Nayak ran like crazy:) But she is NOT good at standing straight ahead when we stop, unless she has a steady leader beside her. Rest of the team was River, Dingo, Bark, Graabein and Myrull. Viggo J had fastest times with his 4 dog teams and Erik Greger beat me with 47 seconds in 8 dog class this time:)
Its very warm at the moment. I don`t mind because I allways fear the first snow that allways turn into ice and make it even harder to train. We had some hazzle with the Dyck cart this fall, it is eating brakepads. Guess its getting old. Ronny has gotten good at changing brakes-we also changed caliper but brakefluid is still leaking and it is still eating brakepads. We will now change wheel bearings to see if it helps.

29/10 Tamsin and old Isi got 4 females, one grey, one black and two black splash coats and one dilute black male! A bit suprising colours as I expected greys only! They are doing fine at the moment. A gallery will be put up soon!

20/10 I am a bit stressed now due to the upcoming racingseason. I have not raced for two seasons so feel we have to show something this one. As long as you breed pups I think you ought to race regularly. But seems like bad planning can make it another non-racing-short-race season. The first two weeks on my holliday I used while having pups in june. The rest was taken out in september and renovating my living room was finally due. New roof, new wallpaper and adjusting lower part of steps with new ones and a wall...... and man it is a bigger project than I feared. It`s living in chaos for weeks and weeks....I have a large livingroom, so I have furniture, TV and PC in one small part and renovating the other before I switch. Hopefully I can finish at christmastime....Luckily Hanne and Ronny are good helpers, Hanne being carpenter as good as anyone:) On top of that Tamsin got her litter- not the best part of the year, since it makes you dependent on puppysitter if you leave for trainingweekends, and they also take up a lot of time. Well, time will tell as they say. My main goal is to enjoy life:)