Cold

We have hit the deep freeze. Yesterday and all last night was a howling blizzard. I had to get up in the middle of the night to replenish the wood stove for fear that it would burn out and get cold before morning. The low was about five below, but who knows what the wind chill was. Today was merely windy rather than super freaking miserable windy. It only got up to four above, and it is supposed to go down to 20 or 25 below tonight.

It was a beautiful sunny day, and I only had to dig out the kennel gates once. The wind was drifting the trail over - slowly - but not filling in the gates. Hurray. I took out two four-dog teams. The first team had to break trail, but they did a wonderful job of following right where the trail was a couple days ago. I had Fresca and Charge in lead, so they clearly remembered where we had been. I put Ghost and Gravity, father and son, in wheel for their first run of the winter. The second team had Luna and Switch in lead, and all they had to do was follow the tracks from the first team. In wheel were littermates and best friends Almond and Raisin, who were very happy to finally be chosen for a run.