Pike...pike and PIKE

Well thanks to Dennis Z. and very co-operative Esox lucius I had the BEST day ice fishing since I came to the Yukon! Even with temps of -35C the day was just perfect....pike, after pike, a pike and to top the day off I caught a 12lbs pike which is a personal best for me.

Thanks again Dennis!

Serious White Dumping

We FINALLY got some good snow!

Time to pack the trails and start running from home...hopefully.

My Skidoo is back and functional (not 100% but o.k. to use) so tomorrow I plan on making grooming trails.

Our puppy palace is back and being utilized (in more ways than I want to talk about) and all residents are living in harmony.

Peat has taken a liking to Heather

The new 6-pack (plus one human)

Cash

The girls...

Some more pics...

The Condos

We finally took some photos of the dogs in there homes...Enjoy

Peat aka SneakyPete

Lucky

Cash and Sadie on the left doubled-up and Rico on the right

the shy one.....Dust

Hidden Lakes

While our better halves were out playing pond hockey at Chadburn Lake Stu VanBibber and I were putting meat on the table at Hidden Lakes.
Stu, Fin and I didn't exacty slay them, but we did manage to fool one nice 2.5-3lb Rainbow trout to take our offering.
Thanks again Stu for the company....next time we fish the mightly Hidden Lakes they won't be so mighty.

Dave with Stu's fish......it's a long story

Our first run in the dark with the Akeno bunch

Well we just got back from a great (but I feel we are still not going far enough) run up at the Copper Haul.
Thanks for the advise and help Stacie and Laura and for the chance to do a head on pass Jon.

CHT and other political BS

Well the CHT first race was GREAT! even though some individuals were offended by someone donating firewood. WOW I mean really grow the hell UP! let the past be the past and move on.

To quote some famous book "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"

Everyone who raced this past weekend really looked like they were having a blast. I stood at the worst turn on the course and the only negative thing I heard was the ocasional "oH crap...this looks bad". I did not participate much in the CHT last season because I let egos and competitive crap get the best of me. I am not a competetive person because I believe competitivness brings out the worst in people. This season I plan on just ignoring any negativity a have a good time at the CHT races.

below are some photos from the now infamous drop kick corner...ENJOY!


Kyla charging uphill

Jon "cheating" ....he won didn't he? therefore he must have cheated. I think we need to measure his skijor line it looks longer than the allowable limit. Disqualify him...no better yet BAN him! (just kidding) but really where the hells are the dogs?

Darrel wonders if the drop kick corner is going to claim its first victim.

Aklakeno

Well enough posts and pics of those time sucking little back biters.....Here are a few photos of Aklak (my first dog) and Keno (the dog that has taught so much about relating with dogs). These two amazing dogs are the reason we called our kennel Akeno.

Crazy dogs

Happy dogs

Aklak tries to catch Keno but really she is just toying with him.....

This one is for LAURA

Well the next few pics are for a good friend of ours....Laura Lucas you will fine NO pics of Jon, no pics of Jons' dogs, no photos of him with his crazy hats, no look at me....and definately no pick me pick me.

This post is just for Laura.

The royal wave

the team on the way out for a run

On the way home

Quad run at Drag n' Fly

Cash and Lucky

Rico and Sadie

Our Puppies are now running short FUN 3km runs with Peat and Dust showing them how it is done. Dust, Peat, Rico, Sadie and in Wheel is Lucy and Cash (who is living up to his name of NO Cash for bitting people when being hooked up)

Peat and Dust

Thanks to Jim and Lee for leasing us these excellent dogs for the upcoming season. Dust and Peat will be joining the Akeno Clan this weekend and this will allow us to run out of our yard.

The Puppy Palace!

Ok, it's been too long since our last posting. Life hasn't slowed down yet, so I'm going to suck it up and start making time to blog again.

The Puppy Palace - Ahhh, a beautiful place of gathering. A place to sleep, a place to play, a place to cuddle, or a place to just be with the little dudes. It took a while to build, but it was worth the effort. We had plenty of leftover styrofoam insulation from the shop construction (or shop destruction, whichever), so we have a warm place for all to be in the winter. The palace floor is 8'x8' and the ceiling is about 5'5" to about 5' (it has a gentle slope to shed the snow and rain). It's easy to stand up in. It has both a dog door and a man door. The puppies took to it right away. And, they also started to eat it right away. Got to love wood construction and dogs. As you'll see in the photos, we found a way to prevent this.

The palace started off as just a shelter from the sun and rain. Since we already had 4 posts cemented into the ground and a roof overhead, we decided that this would be the location of the palace.

We had some help from our friend Stacey - Thanks again for your help!

We ran a wire for a light and the camera into the palace. The extension cord wired to the light constantly broke the breaker, so we had James (the electrician) wire in the light with proper heavy duty wiring - no more blown breakers! Thanks James :)

Did I mention the palace was insulated?

The little dudes helped us throughout the construction - they were great little helpers! (and they didn't get in the way very often!)

The last wall to finish!

The inside light.

As with all good wood construction in the dog yard, it is vulnerable to chewing.

We found a solution to the chewing - thin metal around the most vulnerable chewing areas.

The final doors.

The puppies took to the palace right away.

They all take turns lying at the door to monitor what's going on in the yard.

Happy pooches - need I say more?

There's plenty of room for all of us.

We wouldn't be out sitting in the snow at -30 doing this.

Tired Lucky.

Dopey Cash.

Good thing we have the Palace - it's getting cold out here!