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Old September 12th 05, 02:04 PM
Melinda Shore
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It's getting to be that time of year (modulo our continuing
crazy-hot weather), so over the weekend I was looking at
race information for the upcoming season and came across MP3
recordings made at last year's John Beargrease (a distance
race in Minnesota). The URL is
http://www.trackseventeen.com/media/beargrease05/ .

Crown and Image were the only dogs in the house when I
started going through the recordings, and at the sound of
the "ring tones" (actually mp3s, too) they both ran into my
office and went into full-on tilty-heady mode. Then Crow
tried to climb up on the desk holding the speakers. Number
16 was good for a rise, too (towards the end you hear the
musher saying "atta boy" and then "on by," and then the
sound of the runners fading into the distance), but I think
number 15 is really special - you hear something coming,
then the panting of the dogs, then their feet on the snow,
and then the runners as the sled passes.

About 4 or 5 years ago I was skiing on a particularly
beautiful February day at one of the nearby state forests,
and that's exactly what I heard. Then a six-dog team (with
a passenger!) came charging up the hill, rounded a curve,
and was gone. It was one of those moments where you can
recognize even at the time that it's something you'll
remember forever. That Beargrease recording is deeply
evocative of that one moment.
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Old September 12th 05, 04:02 PM
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on 2005-09-12 at 09:04 wrote:

http://www.trackseventeen.com/media/beargrease05/ .


wheee!

Crown


she's really come up in the world!

started going through the recordings, and at the sound of the
"ring tones" (actually mp3s, too) they both ran into my
office and went into full-on tilty-heady mode.


the yiping is fabulous, especially in the first and last
recordings.

thanks for sharing. it's supposed to be 90F today, so some
winter sounds are just the ticket.

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Old September 12th 05, 04:25 PM
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In article e.net,
shelly wrote:
she's really come up in the world!


She thinks so. Actually, she's a different dog from the one
who arrived here last spring.

the yiping is fabulous, especially in the first and last
recordings.


The dogs aren't quite sure what to make of it, but they're
sure that it somehow is addressed to them.

Thread tying, I had to laugh on one of the recordings to
hear one of the mushers who'd headed off in the wrong
direction use the same "you made a mistake" marker I use,
which is the lengthy polysyllabic word "nononononononono."
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Old September 12th 05, 05:03 PM
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Rocky wrote:
Friday did the head tilt thing at that one.


The high screamy dog sounds just like Image when she thinks
it's time to go. Fortunately she doesn't do that in the
house.
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Old September 12th 05, 05:03 PM
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on 2005-09-12 at 11:25 wrote:

She thinks so. Actually, she's a different dog from the one
who arrived here last spring.


is it a good or a bad change?

Thread tying, I had to laugh on one of the recordings to
hear one of the mushers who'd headed off in the wrong
direction use the same "you made a mistake" marker I use,
which is the lengthy polysyllabic word "nononononononono."


ha! with my luck, harriet would hear that as "gogogogogogo."

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Old September 12th 05, 05:17 PM
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In article e.net,
shelly wrote:
is it a good or a bad change?


It's a very good thing. She initially struck me as a really
hardass dog, but over time she's come to let her goofy happy
side shine. Mike always said she was the best of his dogs
although he'd also say that she was "complicated" and that
maybe he ran her in lead too much before she was ready. I
expect that having the entire summer off helped her relax,
if that was really an issue. She's also decided to follow
Emmett around around making googoo I-lurve-you-Emmett eyes
at him nearly non-stop and she keeps inviting him to play.
She occasionally goes into you-don't-exist mode still, but
it's become rare.

After this current heat wave passes the temperatures should
become more seasonal and we can start doing some training in
harness. I picked up an ATV over the weekend and last week
mowed some trails out back, so it's just a matter of having
the temperatures come down. I hope to be posting some
pictures of dog ass (what the team looks like from the
driver's seat) in a few weeks.
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Old September 12th 05, 05:33 PM
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on 2005-09-12 at 12:17 wrote:

It's a very good thing. She initially struck me as a really
hardass dog, but over time she's come to let her goofy happy
side shine. Mike always said she was the best of his dogs
although he'd also say that she was "complicated" and that
maybe he ran her in lead too much before she was ready. I
expect that having the entire summer off helped her relax, if
that was really an issue.


i expect there's also an element of her having settled into
her new environment.

She's also decided to follow Emmett around around making
googoo I-lurve-you-Emmett eyes at him nearly non-stop and she
keeps inviting him to play. She occasionally goes into
you-don't-exist mode still, but it's become rare.


ha! what does Emmett think of that? is he a good sport?

harriet would run hot and cold with elliott. mostly, she
thought he was pretty peachy, but sometimes she gave him the
cold shoulder.

After this current heat wave passes the temperatures should
become more seasonal and we can start doing some training in
harness. I picked up an ATV over the weekend and last week
mowed some trails out back, so it's just a matter of having
the temperatures come down.


by Friday, we're supposed to be down to 75F/55F. i hope the
weather folks know what they're talking about, because i'm
*over* this 90F crap.

I hope to be posting some pictures of dog ass (what the team
looks like from the driver's seat) in a few weeks.


i can't wait!

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Old September 14th 05, 12:40 PM
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Melanie L Chang wrote:
And to think I've worn wool sweaters to work at least three times in the
last two weeks.


I was cold the whole time I lived out there. But it never
really got cold enough to be useful (i.e. snow), although
one time the temperature dropped into the 20s. The barn
where I was riding had a lot of PVC pipe above ground and it
burst in over 60 places. I knew I wasn't in the north
anymore when a friend's husband told me to clear the ice off
my windshield by pouring hot water on it. Do that around
here in the winter and the hot water freezes into a new
sheet of ice that's harder to clear off.

Mind you, you're reasonably close to outstanding snow (in
the Sierras). The largest nordic skiing resort in the US is
somewhere around Truckee, I think.

Anyway, the heat is interfering with starting training but
the drought just goes on and on and on and is starting to
become a source of real concern.
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