Diary Sledding, LONG
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:40:04 -0500, Marilyn Hubley
wrote:
>Phew I made it!!!!!!!! :) Of course the problems I encountered were
because
>of the dogs I took. Bloody freezing out there thought I was going to have
>my face freeze off, thank goodness I remembered my Ear Muffs. First
mistake
>took Tundra & Cojo (Mr. I don't want to go). Off we go to the road not bad
>for the first half of the sled but the salter/sander had been around so I
>had the runners sticking a some points but wasn't going fast enough to
>matter. Next up man snowblowing driveway, at this point Cojo felt he
needed
>to go see him (on by means NOTHING to Cojo). So I stopped and pulled and
>dragged and wrestled the little beggars back to the road. Guy snowblowing
>had stopped by this time and said when he saw me he thought he was seeing
>things, he's laughing and calls to me to enjoy. Back on road, oh great
>someone has their YAPPY little dog out and its barking at my dogs and we've
>already discussed Cojo's lack of ON BY understanding. So there I am again,
>dragging and a pulling and a wrestling back to the road. Mr. Dense (a.k.a.
>Cojo) didn't even realized I'd pulled him by the house with the dog and he
>launched right back into a snow drift to go looking for it. Yes then the
>dragging and a pulling and a wrestling continued. By now I'm EXHAUSTED and
>turn them around after a bit but by then Cojo felt he did not want to pull
>anymore. Then we run into Dog owner of small yappy creature, luckily she
>had put him away but was coming out to get her mail. Of course Cojo needed
>to say hi and bounce her :( I apologized and continued. Did I mention
>Cojo prefers to run in the MIDDLE of the road or the ditch???? So next up
>were in the middle of the road not going fast of course and see a truck
>coming (its 60kms but he was flying). Try to get Cojo to move over nope,
>did truck slow down, NOPE. Blew by us and woulda given him the bird sign
>but was still snorting snow outta my nose. Next up we are being followed
by
>a snowmobile. After the fellow mushers accident I read about today that
>freaked me out more but he was nice enough to exit stage right and go
around
>us in the field. By now my back is SCREAMING in pain and I knew I wasn't
>going out again today :( Poor Weaver is heartbroken :( Oh ya forgot to
>take the cell phone and the flares :( LOL
>
>Marilyn & The Hubley Hooligans
wrote:
>Phew I made it!!!!!!!! :) Of course the problems I encountered were
because
>of the dogs I took. Bloody freezing out there thought I was going to have
>my face freeze off, thank goodness I remembered my Ear Muffs. First
mistake
>took Tundra & Cojo (Mr. I don't want to go). Off we go to the road not bad
>for the first half of the sled but the salter/sander had been around so I
>had the runners sticking a some points but wasn't going fast enough to
>matter. Next up man snowblowing driveway, at this point Cojo felt he
needed
>to go see him (on by means NOTHING to Cojo). So I stopped and pulled and
>dragged and wrestled the little beggars back to the road. Guy snowblowing
>had stopped by this time and said when he saw me he thought he was seeing
>things, he's laughing and calls to me to enjoy. Back on road, oh great
>someone has their YAPPY little dog out and its barking at my dogs and we've
>already discussed Cojo's lack of ON BY understanding. So there I am again,
>dragging and a pulling and a wrestling back to the road. Mr. Dense (a.k.a.
>Cojo) didn't even realized I'd pulled him by the house with the dog and he
>launched right back into a snow drift to go looking for it. Yes then the
>dragging and a pulling and a wrestling continued. By now I'm EXHAUSTED and
>turn them around after a bit but by then Cojo felt he did not want to pull
>anymore. Then we run into Dog owner of small yappy creature, luckily she
>had put him away but was coming out to get her mail. Of course Cojo needed
>to say hi and bounce her :( I apologized and continued. Did I mention
>Cojo prefers to run in the MIDDLE of the road or the ditch???? So next up
>were in the middle of the road not going fast of course and see a truck
>coming (its 60kms but he was flying). Try to get Cojo to move over nope,
>did truck slow down, NOPE. Blew by us and woulda given him the bird sign
>but was still snorting snow outta my nose. Next up we are being followed
by
>a snowmobile. After the fellow mushers accident I read about today that
>freaked me out more but he was nice enough to exit stage right and go
around
>us in the field. By now my back is SCREAMING in pain and I knew I wasn't
>going out again today :( Poor Weaver is heartbroken :( Oh ya forgot to
>take the cell phone and the flares :( LOL
>
>Marilyn & The Hubley Hooligans
posted by Marilyn | 11:00 AM
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