More trail pictures

Hi Everypup, Kittie & Hammie!

Awhile ago I promised you some more pictures from our snow run. This team is my daddy dog Dave in lead on the left, Jasmine in lead on the right and ME in wheel! We love running this trail with mom. It has some hills which are a little work going up, but WOW are they fun going down!!

You can see what a nice day it was and how be-WOOOtiful this trail is! Can't you just imagine being out there running too?

Did you notice that all of us have our ears facing back? We do that so we can hear Mom when she talks to us or gives us commands. She can tell right away if there is something "distracting" ahead of us on the trail if our ears suddenly swing forward!

She gets her foot on the brake right away if she

sees that! You can also see that we keep our tug lines nice and tight. That means all our power is going to the sled.

The last picture is after our run. We are back at the area where we set up and are reunited with rest of our group. They had their run earlier. Mom had already taken their harnesses off so they could totally relax. We just got our water and will get our harnesses off shortly.

All of our wonderful snow is pretty much gone now...yes, the snow thief hit here too. Right now, we have ice on the trails, so we have not even been able to go running with the wheeled rig.

We are hoping the trail conditions will improve so we can get some more running in before it gets too warm!

Hope you enjoyed your dog sled ride with us!

Husky howls & doing a snow dance,

Skye

True Colours Thursday--BLUE!

Greetings everypup, kitty & hammie!

Wowzers! where did a week go?? Well, here it is Thursday and I am happy to share BLUE things from our house to yours! We love BLUE and have a lot of BLUE things. First of all, here I am modeling a light BLUE harness--I really did not feel like posing for the camera today, can you tell? Next we have a cool collection of BLUE Moondance Huskies stuff--there is mom's BLUE polarfleece top and her BLUE denim jacket...both have an embroidered design of a sled dog and Moondance Huskies Sled Dog Team on them. Mom's BLUE musher hat is on the left. In the center is one of our pink harnesses that have BLUE polarfleece padding and in the front is one of our BLUE lines.

Mom has a BLUE crystal ball--isn't it pretty? Do you remember who in our team has BLUE eyes?? Lakota! And guess who ELSE has BLUE eyes? MOM!I sure enjoyed sharing our BLUE things with you.

Thank you BLUE for having True Colours Thursday!

Play bows

Skye

Color of the Week--SILVER

Hi All!

We decided to join in the fun and do Blue's Thursday Color Post. This week the color is SILVER! I was a little scared that we would not be able to participate this week because we had a power outage today from high winds....but we are OK and "up & running"....so here we go! First of all, I am going to show you some of Mom's SILVER jewelry.

Don't you love the SILVER pawprint and dog sled with 2 dog team pendants? Next, here are the SILVER howling wolf earrings that were given to her by a friend.

Next there is a crystal dish with a SILVER design. The dish was her mom & dad's from their 25th anniversary, so it is very special. Mom puts her cell phone or her truck keys in it. We also have a heart shaped SILVER dish that Auntie Kat put a cat shaped candle holder in. We keep it in the bathroom. The last thing is a SILVER basket that Mom keeps her spare shower poofs in. OOOHHH!

we DO have one more VERY special something SILVER here....Lakota is a SILVER and white Siberian husky!!! Hope you enjoyed some of the SILVER in our house! I think next week is BLUE!

Play bows,

Skye

Sled dogs running on SNOW!

Hi Everypup, Kitty and Hammie!
We have been lucky enough to get some snow recently and our trails were perfect for running with the sled two weekends ago. Mom took a bunch of pictures on the trail while we were running...she is quite a talented human, don't you think? I will have to do 2 posts in order to share all the pictures.
In this one, I will share pictures of the first team out which was Blaze and Angel in lead and Velvet in wheel. First of all, here is a picture of our sled. Isn't it cool? It is a beautiful handmade sled and it is stained dark walnut in color. Look at the sled bag--it is hot pink and silver to match our harnesses.
Now, let's get back to our team on the trail. The first picture of the team is on the way out to the lake and is before the "haw" (left) turn we take to get to the lake. The second picture is going up one of the hills. See how nice and tight we keep our tug lines? The tug lines are the ones that go from the center line to the loop at the end of our harnesses--just about where our tails start. The tug lines transfer all our power to pull the sled. We always stop at the lake for a water and rest break before we turn around to run back in. The last team shot is on the way in and the team is going to be going down a hill and around a curve. Mom has to hold on tight and use the brake because we love to go fast on downhills! Shortly after that shot and AFTER that downhill, we turn onto the trail going back to our "campsite". On this run, mom almost lost her balance on the sled because the team came around a curve sharply. It takes a few runs before humans get their "snow legs". We NEVER have that problem! Haa rooo! The team made it back and had a beautiful run. Next I will post the pics from MY run and tell you about our adventure yesterday!
Play bows,
Skye

Winter Festival/Faux Race

Hi Everypup & Kitty,

A couple of weeks ago, our team participated in a Winter Festival in Willimantic. There were about ten teams that came from around Connecticut. We were there to show people about dog sledding and what better way to do that than to have a "faux" race?! A one mile trail was put in for us to run. We got some snow a few days before, so we actually got to run with our sled! Mom and her friend Tom had changed the runner plastic on her sled, so she decided to take the "slower" team out first. That team was Blaze, Angel and Velvet. The first two pictures here are of them going out and then on the way back in. A little later, she took Jasmine, Dave and me out for a run. We had a great run, including a sharp, clean turn around! The fourth picture shows you a nice close look at my team. Thank you to mom's friend Jim for taking those pictures for us. We met a lot of nice people and in fact, the wrestling team from the high school asked to have their team portrait taken with US!!! Of course Mom said it was fine! We enjoyed all the attention--we got lots of pets from everyone. AND we got to run on snow! How much better does it get??!! I hope you all enjoy seeing these pictures of us running as much as we enjoyed doing it!

Play bows & husky howls,
Skye

SNOW! Glorious snow!!!!

Haa Roo Everypup, kitty & hammie!

We got SNOW here in Connecticut! It started on Friday, stopped for awhile yesterday and has been snowing all day today. We had about 10 inches on the ground on Friday night and we got another 4 or 5 inches today! Yes, we are sled dogs, but this is actually too much snow for us to go running in--can you imagine that!? We did go out last weekend and ran with the wheels. Mom broke us into 2 teams so that we all got to run. I ran with my daddy dog Dave and Jasmine. We did a real nice 4 mile run. It

felt real good to be back in harness again! And I really enjoyed the ride home--snuggled under a
blanket next to Mom. Hmmm...the lettering just changed, but at least the pictures loaded! The first one is looking out the front porch on Friday night. Look at that snow coming down! The next one is Mom's truck (and OUR dog box) yesterday. There is almost that much snow on it again today!

Next up, is looking toward the kennel. The path to the kennel is between those 2 boxes and UNDER those snow covered hemlocks!

Don't you love the picture of Jasmine (in mid shake), my daddy dog Dave (the handsome mostly black dog) and Blaze? They were really enjoying the snow.

The last picture is Lakota. You can tell he had his snooter in the snow because Mom caught him with a snow nose! If you look in the background, you can tell he made some yellow snow! hee hee!
Mom has to go dig the truck out again tonight, but I
asked her to put these pictures up first! Last night she

was too tired to do it after digging out both the truck

and the car. I hope all of you that got snow are getting

to enjoy it. We had hoped to go sledding today, but

Mom believes in safety first and with the storm going

on all day and the possiblity of ice, she decided it was

better to stay home and be safe. Besides, with this

much snow, her truck probably could not make the

hill into the forest! So we will wait (again) and hope

there is still snow to run on next weekend! Mom and

her friend Tom put new rails & plastic runners on the

sled, so we are READY as soon as the weather co-

operates! In the meantime, we will enjoy the snow--

playing in it together and playing "catch snow" with

Mom. Everyone be safe and have a very Merry

Christmas! Hope Santa brings you all lots of new toys

and yummy treats!

Love and Happy Husky Howls!

Skye and all the Moondance Huskies and Kitties

HOWL-oween plus 1 & I'm BACK!!

Hi Everypup, kitty and hammie!

Hope you all had a safe and Happy HOWL-oween! I have SO missed blogging, but there has been a lot going on here which I will fill you all in on. My dear, sweet Grandpa passed away at the end of July and Mom & I have been very sad. I want to thank all of you who sent us fabric squares. Mom is making the quilt and says it will be a healing quilt celebrating Grandpa's life and showing the love of the DWB family.

Now to happier things, Mom gave me TWO new toys for HOWL-oween and they both have black cats!! We had a lot of cute Trick-or-Treaters last night and Diana and I let Mom know when they arrived and supervised giving out the treats. Mom said we were a big help and gave me a nice dog cookie as a reward....NO CANDY for me!!

Everyone in Mom's office dressed up yesterday and one of the ladies took a picture of Mom. That is a black cat toy on her shoulder and she is holding a crystal ball. She looked really pretty. She said one office dressed up as characters from the "Wizard of Oz".

As you all know, we are working sled dogs here, but here it is, November 1 and it is 60 degrees outside! We are all anxious to get out and start running. It is supposed to be in the 30's tonight so maybe tomorrow....... I will let you all know!

There is a lot more to tell you all, but I am going have to do it a little at a time. I am just really glad to be back and look forward to catching up on reading your blogs and hearing from all of you.

Again, thank you all for sending fabric squares....if anyone else wants to participate, you certainly can.

Love & licks to all of you!

Skye