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Oh, Summer
Oh, summer. Between the awful heat wave, being on vacation, covering other people’s vacations, Squash’s PT and chiropractic appointments, and all the usual business of ordinary day to day life, we’ve barely done any scootering for several weeks. It’s becoming … Continue reading
Posted in Dog Talk, Equipment, Training, Weather
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It’s Too Hot to do Anything
I live in some kind of crazy opposite world. Summer is our season OFF. Enough said.
Posted in Not Mushing, Weather
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The Value of “Useless,” or, You Just Never Know
This is a tale of two Mush Puppies. Maisy came to me as an approximately nine month old puppy with an unknown past beyond “pulled from a rural AC.” When I got her, I had no specific plans for her … Continue reading
Posted in Dog Talk, Health, Maisy, Not Mushing, Squash, Training
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Summer Break
Inevitably, it seems, the weather gets involved in my best laid mushing plans. After a busy May, June was filled with lots and lots of rain. When it wasn’t drizzling, it was pouring. When we didn’t have showers, we had … Continue reading
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Hot Ham Water
Squash had his first official session on the underwater treadmill today (last week at his initial consultation he spent just a short time in/on it to see how he would do). Par for the Squash Course, he started out with … Continue reading
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We’re Gonna PUMP SQUASH UP
So both the dogs had an evaluation with a veterinary physical therapy team today. I had a few minor concerns about Squash’s gait, and he had been running a little unenthusiastically lately, and I’d been tossing the idea around lately … Continue reading
Posted in Dog Talk, Health, Squash
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DIY PVC, PDQ
Sure, I’ve tripped over stuff before. You people have SEEN me trip over my own skis, patches or ice, or detritus on the trail. Occasionally it’s dog toys laying around the house, and once or twice over a cat I … Continue reading
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Continuums and Musical Tugs
When I first started mushing, I had this picture in my head of how it would go: We would start training and then at some point POOF my dogs, along with every single moment of every run, would be utter … Continue reading
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Benefit of the Doubt
In my middle age, I’ve developed a fairly significant tree pollen allergy. Anyone living in Minnesota will therefore understand the depth of my addiction to mushing when I say I willingly – nay, enthusiastically – took my dogs out to … Continue reading
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Oh Maisy, My Maisy
Today when I went scootering, I accidentally messed up the “mode” setting on my GoPro and it was taking pictures continuously when I thought it was taking video. It turned out to be a happy mistake, because I managed to … Continue reading
Posted in Dog Talk, Gush Puppies, Maisy, Scootering
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