another day

Well easter monday was interesting. Hayden had to work so I went ad spent the day with his mom. She is a sweet native woman who tans her own hides and sews everything. She has amazing talent with beads and leather. Whith moving back up to Dawson, I have asked her to teach me how to tan hides. Yesturday we fleshed off 5! yes 5! hides, we had already done 3 a few days before, so I got the hang of it and we did 5 yesturday, when I left the house I had me camera ready (like always) but left it at home (like most of the time). So I will try and really remember to take the camera and start with pictures of this dying tradition.
It was alot of work and that 5th hide was proving to be about as many as we could do in the day (4.5 hours to make us feel even better!) There is one more deer hide, a moose hide and 2 caribou left to do. I am sure I will be ready to throw a loaded sled any where next winter.haha. We are not sure what is going to be done with the hides,making drums, a dress? who knows we have to remove the hair now and will be working on that sometime this weekend or next week.
The way things are looking now we want to sell our place in faro and have land picked out here, if we get it it means a entire new start on everything, new house, new dog yard,new garden,new shop and we have to build everything form scratch! Also we are getting marrried this summer so busy, busy, busy we will be.
I added 2 slide shows on the blog, one with of course our dogs and the other with some crafts I do, if any one is interested in the crafts, please feel free to contact me for more info.
here are a couple puppy pics I dug up while organizing my pics.

07 pups 08 yearlings
asker
kisses
red

easter puppies

here are some pics of the puppies on easter, they are all singers and movers, excpet bytz she is a singer but pretty calm. I will get more pics of them on the move soon, as you can see from their dirt coats they have learned to dig! Happy easter to everyone!

spring

Spring I guess is here. Was -20 the other morning but one out of the past 2 weeks is not bad at all. The sun is in full shine and really letting it power out against the snow. The snow is still over our boots and knees, but melting non the less.
With spring here and well since Feb. I have been getting the itch to go fishing.Oh how I love to fish. However up here in the klondike, fishing is a camping trip. The river here is home to amazing numbers of fish, but they only run certain times a year, and there are not many lakes close by, none that I know of anyways.
In faro there are lakes, lots of lakes to fish out of, oh missing how I will miss Faro and its easy fishing.
Last time we lived in Dawson, we went camping with Haydens cuzin. It was to be a great weekend with lots of fish. So we loaded up the small (SMALL) van and took of about 4 hours out we hit our camping spot, and start setting up camp, hmmmm NO TENT! NONE! We are 4 hours out of Dawson and no tent the van is too small to fit 4 of us in , and its raining, HARD. Ok we are tough enhough to crash under a tarp, with small blankets (small, because it was suppose to be warm,sunny and sleeping in a tent) NOT WARM, SUNNY OR A TENT. Also this seemed like the place that every mosquito in the territory went to spend their weekend too!
Needless to say Friday and Saturday were trying days, wet, no sleep and mosquitos everywhere, well almost out on the lake there was a calm , but still very wet.
As sunday came along the sun came out, the clouds of mosquitos were no longer insain and we were due to head home.
On the up side the lake was shallow and amazinly clear, and there was fish EVERY where. We were fishing for Jacks and almost every cast caught a fish or two. They were so hungry there we would catch a small one and a big one would come up and eat it while on our line, and we got to watch it all. AMAZING!
So summer and fihing enters our minds, Hayden is not to keen on the camping bit ever since then and I dont really blame him, maybe if I get my dream job we will skip the fishing/camping trips and stick with making money to burn out the dogs butts come winter....
so I sit here wishing for winter, to cool, calm silence that comes with winter, and the seasons of frozen poops, oh how I already miss frozen dog poo...

klondike

Well I have finally moved in, as much as I can here for now. We are in a shack, with extention cords for wirering, an outhouse and wood stove (which was also the cook stove until the other day), but it works for us and allows Hayden and I to be together again and to have the dogs here and is as cheap for rent as one can hope for here, so all is good.
The first thing I did when I got here was catch a nasty cold, so sick once again, now that I am over that, the dogs are sick. We caught a dose of ring worm somewhere and are not batteling that out. We have just gave up on running the dogs all together for the rest of this winter. This was the worst winter I can ever remember, but I love being back north and we will hopefully have a better winter next year.
I think we will be in for another move before winter comes along, we are hoping to sell our place in Faro and buy land here and build a small cabin for the first year or two, (fingers crossed) if not I dont know what we will do come winter, I really do not want to be in this place through a cold winter and not really wanting to stay in here too long. This we will have to wait and see how it goes.
I love the fact I live where there is stores again, we have 2 grocery stores and it is wonderfull! Fruit and vegtables that are not frozen, SWEET! lol. We also have the gas stations (never a big deal to me). One thing I hate about here is everything is expensive, and dog food is retarded here, we are paying over 57./bag for ok dog food, almost everything is over 60/bag. and we are feeding the last couple salmon that we have, so we are are hoping to figure a way to buy, by the pallet and get it here, the problem with that is we have a 6-7 hour drive (one way) to pick up the food, transporting it is too expensive by a freight company, and it is very short notice when a truck will be there with the food.
We came home the other day from town and are now expecting a litter of pups that was not planned, seems Ant magicaly unsnaped himself and we are thinking he may have bred with Kisses. Both are amazing so far, but are unproven on longer runs, so fingers crossed if the breeding did happen we get some great pups. Our 4 little Qween/Garter pups are doing great and growing wonderfully. I can not wait to see the dogs we have in 3 years. The last breeding we did (ant,anvil,ammi,arora, and aho, sure have turned out nice. We were going to sell Anvil, and I am glad we didnt.
I use to think I had an eye for picking out great dogs out of a litter and as they grew so did my confidence in picking pups, now though I feel I have none and have to wait to see what we have. I think almost a year is what it will take to see what and who we really want to keep. Ant was sold and I returned the $ because I thought we should try him out, and I am so glad he never went any where, he is a very nice, beautiful hard working male that is big, he is our biggest sibe by far. Hopefully his size is not to big to race, and if it is I cant wait to have him skijoring.
I will post pics of our 4 B (Breeze, Barq, Butters, and Bytz) puppys soon.

Percy DeWolfe Race Start

PercyDewolfe Race

klondike living

made it up here, moved in , unpacked saw the Percy Dewolfe race, will do a big update and picture load tommorow while husband is at work!