Skijoring with friends

Harris and Jack and I went skijoring with Heather and Lucky after work one day! I tell ya, having LIGHT out till 9pm now is freakin' amazing. I always wonder why we're all so damned shocked about the increase in light every year. It's the talk of the town when it starts getting light past 6pm. I guess the somewhat long, dark winter has something to do with that. Or it's like a rite of passage - to pass into the glorious spring and summer days full of LIGHT we have to appreciate it or Mother Nature will smite us and take it all away.

Anyways... it's nice to head out for an after-work skijor in the daylight. So the boys got to spend the day in the truck, wheeee!

Harris is basically sitting on top of my groceries. There was even chicken in there somewhere and he's so good he doesn't even touch it. Some of my other dogs (ahem, RIPPER) should emulate Harris' good behaviour!

Boys in the truck.

We just arrived at Heather's here and they know something is up. They're on high-alert.

Jack meets Lucky! Jack is extremely um, "frustrated" these days as PB! and Esther are taking turns being in heat. Some days he's just frazzled, other days he loses his appetite, sometimes he just paws at them on the other side of the fence, he'll howl INSIDE the cabin at night (and that's quite lovely to wake up to!). Poor guy. So he was excited to meet a new girl, but she's fixed so alas, she just really wanted to meet n' run.

But not without some obligatory butt-sniffing first.

He was making damned sure she's not in need of some lovin'.

And Harris got in on the fun too! Lucky is very patient.

A little bit of friskiness got Jack's hopes up.

Annnnnd then, we headed out.

Still looks a little lost here doesn't he? Haha.

Here comes Heather and Lucky, walking down the somewhat steep-ish, sidehilly trail out of their yard.

I missed Heather pulling up the first time and raising her arms in the victory sign, so I forced her to do it again. Here is the totally spontaneous result.

The trails were super fun! More hills than I thought and a couple times so steep I thought I'd run over Jack and Harris. Luckily that didn't happen. These are trails I trained on regularly many years ago (with someone else's dogs), so it was great to go back and see them again!

The boys, working hard on a beautiful day.

Here's a wee video of Heather and Lucky pulling up to us.

The noises I'm making in this may sound odd, but it's really just the result of the dogs trying to drag and jerk me down the trail. They were somewhat impatient at this point!

All in all, a very fun run with the dogs n' friends. In the LIGHT. After work. :)