Run or Rust

02/22/2025

01/06/2024

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01/30/2023

2 dog sleds, 4 Schanens, and 12 sled dogs = one big happy family. We setup a tag sled like our old tour days. Ted and sterling in the front and fritz and I in the back. We were able to do a 3 mile loop from our backyard. So happy to have snow and get on sleds. Hope it stays.

01/08/2023

We were planning to race at Tahquamenon this weekend but since it got canceled we signed up for a wrestling tournament instead.

11/17/2022

Fritz and I had some excitement tonight. A real “Winterdance” kinda run (book by Gary Paulson we highly recommend). The plan was for fritz and I to take a 6 dog team and then Ted and sterling take a 6dog team. Fritz and I went first. The run was going good and all dogs looking good. About halfway through our run I hear fritz say what is that shine ahead… oh those are eyes… oh that’s a opossum!!!! I tried to get the dogs to keep running but no dice. Very quickly my favorite dog zippy and Fritz’s favorite dog Rusty ( our Leaders for the night) had the opossum and were stomping on it and mouthing it. Fritz held the brakes while I jumped off. Great news no one was growling or fighting. Zippy had the opossum in her mouth. Luckily she let me have it right away again with no growling or issues it seemed to be dead. Zippy and Rusty are not great at staying lined out even on their best days. I needed to get back to the 4 wheeler and switch spots with Fritz but he couldn’t figure out how to set the parking brake. I’m holding the opossum in my hand trying to figure out what to do. I set the opossum on the ground about 3 feet in front of Rusty and Zip, they lined out better than ever before 😂 Fritz said we will have to add that to a how to train lead dogs book #2. Then I ran and set the parking break. Ran back and got the opossum had fritz hold the leaders. Ran back and shoved the opossum into the bars in the front of the Atv. I didn’t want to throw it in the field and have the dogs go after it or have it be in the trail for Ted and Sterlings run. A little voice in my head did whisper what if it is only playing opossum? But I was shoving it under mental bars and it seemed very lifeless and dead. Got the team running again and had fritz grab my phone and take a picture. Soon after it had its mouth open and started trying to wiggle out of the bars! We were yelling in unison oh my god it’s still alive… oh my god it’s moving. As we turned on the gravel lane heading home it was crawling along the lightbar. There were huge puddles on the lane. All the sudden he jumped off the Atv when we were going through th biggest puddle. Since he jumped off the front right in front of a wheel we thought we may have run him over or he drowned in the puddle. We were laughing so hard we were crying and fritz just kept saying that was crazy no one is gonna believe us. But it really happened. Can’t make this S**t up! Fritz says he hopes he has to write a personal narrative at school tomorrow.

11/15/2022

We’ve been having fun running dogs as a family. Ted runs 2 on the scooter and we run some on the Atv. Makes for some good passing practice.

10/25/2022

Getting ready for one of our favorite weekends of the year always love to be around such awesome mushers and dogs. This is always Halloween weekend for us and our boys (10 and 12) we will be bringing candy and costumes and hope others will join in with us dressing up!

10/15/2022

Running dogs near Mountain,WI.

06/12/2022

Fun morning with Mini Mushers playing some sled dog themed games