Winter is here... well sort of.

Well, it has been about three weeks since Jade's accident and, I'm happy to say, she is well surpassed my expectations on her speedy recovery. I was kind of hoping I could keep her but, unfortunately, Mike wanted her back. He is planing on reimbursing me for the sum amount of the vet bills which makes me happy in itself. I was also happy to hear that Mike is planing on breading Jade again in the future. Such an awesome dog for pups!

I have learned that anything can happen in the sport of dog mushing. You always have got to be on the lookout for moose or, anything else for that matter, expect the unexpected, ect. My boss Jon told me a story about one of his friends in Organ a few weeks ago having a huge standoff with some rancher's cows while he was out training his dogs with his four wheeler. I guess the whole standoff lasted about two hours. The poor guy ended up loosing about four of his dogs because some angry cattle charged his teem and trampled some of his dogs to death. I guess in the midst this whole ordeal one of the cows managed to lift up his entire gang line with all his dogs still attached, swinging and thrashing the dogs all over the place. Sheesh! And this is the day he forgot his gun. I can tell you, I would be eating beef for a long time if this ever happened to me!

Things are good for me at this time, I've got plenty of things to do, places to go, people to talk to, and most importantly, work. Next to mushing and taking care of dogs, I've got a part time job maintaining a few weather/science stations close by to where I live. It's looking like it's going to take a little more work then I had expected to keep things up and running but, that alright with me. I've got the time.

Me making sure the sensors are free of ice

Distance view of the station.

A very heavy generator I have to carry out. Next time I'll use the sled.

Me hooking up the battery chain to be charged. Aprox 8 12 volt batteries

Part of the station is run off of solar energy.

This is the data logger. All the information collected by the instruments and is stored on a card much like a SD card for your comp.