Out and About with the Huskies

[AdoreMyDogs]

I love opening your threads, the pics are always such a delight. I love your dogs and the scenery of your home surroundings!

[Glacier]

Fifty seven degrees...wow. Do you like the cold? I lived in St. Petersburg, Russia for a summer and I loved their white nights...it's fun to be able to go get coffee and sit outside at 11 pm and not be tired! I tend to be controlled by the amount of sun there is, if it's dark, I get tired, when it's light out, I wake up, so that would be nice in the summer but awful in the winter months!

Are there many people up there? I thought I remembered hearing somewhere that 80% of Canada's population lives within 200 miles or so of the US border (because it's further south and less cold!).

Sorry to hear about the drilling- I hope you find something pretty soon.

I love the cold. I love winter in general as my allergies disappear with the snow! The dogs are also much happier in the cold temps. The dark was hard to get used to. I have a daylight therapy lamp that I use every day in the winter months. It helps alot.

There are about 30, 000 people in the Yukon, the vast majority of them live in Whitehorse. It's a highly transient population. Lots of people come up for the summers and leave; I know lots of people who moved up here intending to stay, made one winter and left as soon as they could. Most people either love it or hate it here immediately and never change their opinion!

[Ginger's Mom]

I love your pictures, and your stories. And I really do love the Chase and Goldy love affair. Daisy really is cute, and she just seems to have such a personality, the way she just comes over and makes herself so at home with you and your crew.

So tell me, if you hadn't gotten so involved with the dogs and mushing, etc., do you think you would have liked it as much up there? What made you move up there to begin with (Stuart, right?). If this is too personal obviously you don't have to answer. Just being nosey. Oh, and good luck with the water, I really am sending out good thoughts for you on that.

[Glacier]

So tell me, if you hadn't gotten so involved with the dogs and mushing, etc., do you think you would have liked it as much up there? What made you move up there to begin with (Stuart, right?). If this is too personal obviously you don't have to answer. Just being nosey. Oh, and good luck with the water, I really am sending out good thoughts for you on that.

Stuart and I were already married when we moved up here, for a whole six months! I had always wanted to live up here. Stuart was not meant to be a city boy and we were living in Calgary. There was a job in the Calgary Herald for a social worker up here one day. I sent in my resume just to see what might happen. 4 months later, we lived here! Well, I did. I moved in January, Stuart had to stay down south for a few months to tie things up. He came up in May.

We had three dogs when we moved up. We took Hoodoo away from his owners just before we left. Muskwa, Earle and Hoodoo made the move with me. I always loved it up here, but the dogs/mushing certainly made the winters easier to deal with. I don't like the dark, but they have forced me to get over that fear. Can't stay inside all day when it's only light for a couple hours! Now I really enjoy running a team at night, especially when the moon or the northern lights are out!

Thanks. Today is it. We are going to about 260 today and if there is no water, then we we have a very expensive, useless hole in the yard!

[Husky_mom]

lovely pics i wish i can come by someday..........

or maybe you can bend the drilling a bit and get all the way to my place that way we can visit each other by the tunnel made. .............sorry i´m such a dork i couldnt help myself.........sorry

i really hope you get to water soon, sorry for the joke.........

chase reminds me of a previous dog i´ll try find a pic to compare

[Ginger's Mom]

There was a job in the Calgary Herald for a social worker up here one day. I sent in my resume just to see what might happen. 4 months later, we lived here! Well, I did. I moved in January, Stuart had to stay down south for a few months to tie things up. He came up in May.

Wow, that was very brave of you. Good for you. Well, you seem to have made a good life for yourself and your dogs. But then I have a feeling you would be able to do that wherever you were.

[Pembroke_Corgi]

Wow, that was very brave of you. Good for you. Well, you seem to have made a good life for yourself and your dogs. But then I have a feeling you would be able to do that wherever you were.

Yes, that is brave! It seems almost like a sort of "last frontier" there. It looks absolutely beautiful.