Kennel Life is a Game of Tetris

I’ve recently been teased for not having a concrete schedule. Oftentimes, when we finish evening chores and have a brief team meeting, I’ll list out tasks for the next day with the best of intentions, but then Mother Nature throws a cold snap or the snowmachine needs a part or a big tour group books last minute, and next thing you know, we’re making spur of the moment adjustments and throwing the initial plan out the window. I’d like to think that for the most part, we’re pretty good at getting all the pieces to fit nicely. They block together and vanish just like checking things off a to-do list. But every now and then, you get thrown a weird shape or the shapes just fall too fast. Like this current -40F cold snap that supposed to last five days and arrived a day early. I don’t like to run the dogs in these temps, whether it be for training or tours, so training runs go out the window. In their place, I’m frantically thinking of other tasks- collect firewood, work on my sled with Allen, write a blog post, catch up on computer work. And those shapes start to click together and we gradually catch back up and start beating the game again.

Ironically before this -40F stretch, it was a heat wave at 20F. Since it was warmer out, I was able to take some video of overflow we encountered.

Running up the Chena River

Maple looking cute