Hello everyone, My apologies for being gone for so long. I have been readapting to life here at home and finding time to sit down and write is much more of a challenge for me here than it is on the road. But I am publicly committing myself here to try and be more disciplined about writing to you all! So, you may ask yourself, why has it been difficult to stop and write. Well...the three boys and the 60 dogs will give you 63 reasons to start!! The other main 16 reasons are our puppies. Warren and I have been harness breaking last summers puppies this last week or so. We always harness break pups together. If any of you are familiar with the energy of Alaskan husky pups you can already understand why. They are CRAZY hyper at hookup and definitely take more patience than our adult dogs. Of course we both also want to see how they are in harness initially. We are happy to report that they are all doing well. Only one young girl was not quite sure what was going on and we decided that a big part of that was her desire to be with me back on the sled so on Sunday's run I did not go with Warren to run, all the boys did instead, and I am super happy to report that Iza, the pup in question, is doing well now. She even came back from yesterday's run as one of the pups in lead. When we train the pups, we always use experienced dependable leaders. The normal set up for leaders is to have two out in front. When we are puppy and leader training we attach another leader line or two so we can have up to four leaders up front, the two older leaders and the young pups. It is a much less intimidating space for a young pup to be in rather than being just one of two dogs up front. Warren reported that all the pups did quite well yesterday, the first day of throwing them up in lead, I did not run with him yesterday as I was giving a kennel tour. The kennel visitors were very excited to watch the puppy hook up,departure, and arrival, an added bonus to their visit. Well, that is it for this morning, one of my dayboarders, dog of course, has just arrived so I am off to start the doggie day! Cheers, Kate