Snow Dog Super Mush

This morning we headed up to Conconully with Jill and her family to take in the Snow Dog Super Mush. Although I grew up with dogs and showing them, I was never exposed to sled dog racing. Boy I wish I had been. What a fun time everyone looks like they are having, except of course the dogs left behind! I even got to try out driving a sled with one young, tired malamute.

I really had fun taking some of the pictures too. I gave some detail shots a try and really played with the black and white. I've really enjoyed some of Stephanie's detail shots so thought I should give that idea a try. I like what I got and I could have posted a ton of pictures, but here's a sampling, go check out the rest in the portfolio.

An Igloo and Sunrise

The building of the igloo started with my help, but ended with half a dozen neighborhood kids and two dogs. It still stands and I don't think it will melt until the very end. We built it on a just barely freezing day, so it melted just enough to refreeze rock hard. I am surprised Shawn hasn't spent the night in it yet.





Friday morning while I was doing dishes, I looked up to see a beautiful sunrise over the mountains. Of course I'm never in a good position to take pictures from the house with all the power lines, trees and roofs, but I'd say these turned out alright.

News, but No New Pics

I have some new news, but no new pictures. I did take some pictures of the sunrise the other morning, but have yet to take a look at them.

Last weekend we planned on heading to Spokane for a wedding show and just a weekend in the big town, but we never made it. Our first big experience of driving on snow and ice happened. Shawn hit an icy spot and lost control and flipped the Passport. We weren't hurt, but it sure taught some lessons about winter driving on the east side of the mountains. The Passport was moderately hurt. Shawn was taking the worse case scenario that it was totaled, but thankfully it's repairable. In fact it is at the shop now getting a new leaf spring and a wheel alignment. The tow bill ended up being more expensive then the repair bill and of course we learned our lesson about not having any tow coverage.

Shawn's constructive doings of the last weekend was building a full size igloo in the backyard. He is very proud of it and tries to climb into it at least once a day. I got a bit tired of helping so called over Amy's kids and the in turn they brought some more kids and they all helped Shawn put the finishing touches on the igloo. Once again I have pictures, but they are still hanging out on the camera. It is a pretty impressive sight to walk out the door and see an igloo.

With the Passport out of commission, my truck had to go to work. It wasn't very happy with me. We took it out Sunday to get some extra weight in the back and it took two tries to get it out of the driveway. Then with 250+ pounds in the back Shawn had to push me out Tuesday night to go to the shop and I had to get a good running start on Thursday when I headed to Wenatchee. If we get the chance I really do see us trading in my truck for a decent 4x4 truck.

This morning Shawn and I headed to a fellow teacher's property. Dean's house burned down the Thursday before we tried to go to Spokane. His family made it out alright, but the house was a complete loss. I've never known someone who has lost their house in a fire. I can't imagine how traumatic that must have been watching it burn down. Dean seems to be handling it as well as can be expected and today was the clean up day. Along with some other teachers, friends and students we cleared out all the metal roofing and copper wiring along with many other metal odds and ends. There wasn't that much wood to remove as it all burned. Shawn did use the chainsaw to cut up the deck and some of the trees surrounding the foundation. Dean plans to rebuild on the same spot, but will have to start from complete scratch as about half the foundation is just loose rock. Hopefully Shawn will be able to help out with that this summer.

Well might as well wrap this up as we will be heading to the basketball game soon. Shawn runs the scoreboard and I make believe I help. Hope to get the pictures looked at soon and maybe even some posted.

Scrappin Sledding

I braved the cold of the computer room today to make a scrapbook page. Shawn requested I do his sledding so he could replace the summer scrap page of him sit skiing on Lake Chelan. I believe the last one I made would have been back in November. I have officially started saving for a laptop so hopefully you'll see more pages soon. Though the main inspiration for my pages is geocaching and well, it's a bit too cold and snowy to do it much around here. We were used to caching all through the winter months in Bellingham (just getting a bit more wet in the process.) Oh well, life sure has changed.


Journaling: "With great views of Omak Mountain and a spectacular crash we enjoyed our first trip to Sheep Slaughter Hill south of Okanogan. Shawn perfected hurting himself on a jump someone else had made. Needless to say he was pretty sore the next day. Shawn thinks this hill could even rival sledding on Mt. Pilchuck."

**The SBB Gallery is down so I will post full credits here for now: Paper and frames by Shelley Rae, Snowflake from Marie Stones and journal spot from Ronna Penner. Photos by Kendal Jean Photography and the font used is Orator STD in Adobe Photoshop.

DINOSAUR!!

BIG POINTY TEETH!

LONG SHARP CLAWS!

IT'S EATING THE NEIGHBOR'S TRUCK!!

IT'S SNOW DINO!!!!

So while Shawn was out fishing this morning I put my creative side of the brain to work. Presenting my bushy-eyed, 5'7" tall Snow Dino. He's really quite friendly and at this present time has laid down to take a nap. Even in 40 degree weather I was able to put him together. Though don't tell the dino he was supposed to be a rearing horse, but the snow was a bit too heavy and melty to get the legs out there so I settled with something with short legs. I really had a lot of fun putting him together.

Shawn got home just in time to see the Snow Dino before his nap and had a very successful fishing trip. Three huge trouts all about 17-20" long and over 5lbs each! Needless to say it's fish for dinner. He's looking up yummy recipes now.

New Years Sledding

Happy New Years! I can't believe it, the first day of 2008 and I'm already posting pictures. Maybe it is a good sign for the year.

We spent a good couple hours sledding today. No Sheep Slaughter, but this hill was just as fun. I have lots of photos of Amy's, Lisa's and Jill's children. I have them all posted in the portfolio, but here is a fun little peek of what the day was like. I missed having you ladies up there. If you want some better quality photos let me know and we will have to get together now that my cd-burner really has gone belly-up.