Americano Blue's musher/mushing chat thread

[RezChamp]

Howdy y'all. I hope every1 had a good Christmas.
I had to work most of the time but we had a nice time on Christmas day. We all met at my sister's and had a big meal. OMGoodness...I was so full that when I pushed one side of my tummy the other side moved out ...then pushed the other side ...LOL the same thing. I now weigh 193 instead of 180. Just one mushing trip tho'. But it was still nice. I had fun with my kids and G-kids.

My baby's B-day on NewYears Eve. Gona be 8.

My "Birthday Brood" will be a year on the 14th/Jan. My goodness it goes by fast.

I hope y'all experience good health, happiness, love and good fortune in your immediate and extended futures. Love and prayers for y'all

 

[charnic44]

[COLOR=0000CD]Aw. that's just cute.[/COLOR]
   6 inches is good enough. That's all you need. If it's packed hard it'll work good. Do you have QCR? Get some old plastics for training in little/shallow/not enough snow.
[COLOR=FF8C00]I'm sure it'll happen for you to get some more[/COLOR]. I think we all are in for a surprise. A nice surprise.......hopefully.

It's not quite enough for a snow hook but if I stand on the hook while we are stopped, it'll hold. Yeah, I've got a QCR system on and am using old plastics. There is enough snow for the sled runners it's just kinda powdery so it doesn't stick much.

 

[SternRose]

 

[SternRose]

Working 1 on 1 for a while. Both are improving a bunch!! Nala lead by her self at a trot too!!
Hank is getting his "right" down. Then I'm gunna teach it in Swedish

 

[Americano Blue]

Working 1 on 1 for a while. Both are improving a bunch!! Nala lead by her self at a trot too!!
Hank is getting his "right" down. Then I'm gunna teach it in Swedish

Don't confuse him. He only needs to know on word for right and one for left. Switching it up and using different words for the same thing, although it may be impressive, might only confuse him and cause trouble down the road. Literally. Working one on one is great. I did that with Cindy and she's an amazing leader now, too bad I can't race her. Glad to hear Nala is doing good.

 

[SternRose]

No I mean use the Swedish word when he's spinning/circles.
Not for pulling.

 

[RezChamp]

Happy New Year everyone. I hope all is well with all of Uz. It is a simply gorgeous day here.

The sun is shining, a good northerly breeze with a winter chill in the air but not extremely cold. A perfect mushing day.

I could've gone to a social like pretty well everyone else I know but I just didn't wanna be akin to the scene of alkies and drugheads. Same idiots presenting the same idiocy to the same idiotic up&comers. Same scene for 50 years that I saw of it. Same buncha losers. Just older. and even uglier...showing the younger how to become older, uglier losers.
Don't intend to rain on anyone's parade.. just putting out there what I feel hoping someone will be smart enough to gain strength from it. Along with that invitation is also the invitation to just take it from the source and shelve it if it aint acceptable for one's place of being at the moment.
I stayed home lastnight and watched NetFlix with my wife and dotrs. LOL.."Vampire Diaries". Shocker

is I actually got into it. One reason being Helena(I just asked my daughter for the name) is hot. She reminds me of the young lady I dated when I was 16.

I started to laugh just now thinking how you young ladies are probably thinking" I can't believe that old man just said that!" ......Well it's true. Kind of on the slender side though. But ya she looks like my first "I'm in love". So I've found a new favorite series to watch on Netflix. sooo... I know how I'm gona be spending that first evenings of my new year. lol

 

[RezChamp]

so I don't need much snow on unbroken open land. I still a good base in the bush because of laying sticks and stuff. And there's lotsa trees to tie-off to.

It's not quite enough for a snow hook but if I stand on the hook while we are stopped, it'll hold. Yeah, I've got a QCR system on and am using old plastics. There is enough snow for the sled runners it's just kinda powdery so it doesn't stick much.

Ya, I aint a real big fan of powder either. It Is better than no snow though.

The ground aint frozen hard here yet. The first snow pulled out what little frost there was. the recent cold weather just put a 1-1 1/2 " of crust on the soil now so the hook can be stomped right down into it.
My main sled is now that black thing in one of the pix I've posted(look's kinda like StrenRose's ) so I don't need much snow on unbroken open land. I still a good base in the bush because of laying sticks and stuff. And there's lotsa trees to tie-off to.

 

[RezChamp]

No I mean use the Swedish word when he's spinning/circles.
Not for pulling.

That'd b cool. Go girl. Keep your language alive. Even if it is just a few words for now. One word at a time.
I use my *grandparents language for all commands except for *"stop"(because it sounds so much like *"right") and *"straight ahead" (because it sounds so much like *"let's take action"). So I just say Whoa and On By.
The old people from the northern areas really like to hear it * because that's the language most of them used when mushing was common. The old ones still speak. Of course the younger ones think it's corny because they're too cool to speak their own language.

 

[SternRose]

Hank decided yesterday he was gunna bite me and not listen. But him in his place and he lost his spunk...
He listened today but no spunk