Give me cold, crisp autumn days…and snow in November!

A long and hectic late summer behind us. To have two litters in one season, together with training, gives little time to other things than dogs. Even though I have taken one day off from my job as a teacher to sew and knit, I have enough orders for a loong time. I will cut back on the knitting now as it is too time consuming, and I need to focus on the anoraks.

Lisbet in her Snørokk anorakk, colour Stone, with lynx fur

Luckily, my co operation with Scarlett and Wayne on the ruffs, works well, so I will continue to offer first quality ruffs for anoraks and parkas.

Went to Hakadal’s seminar at Harestua in September and got nice feedback on my products. I have sweaters to knit and anoraks to sew. Nice that people see the quality of wool and cotton and not only the goretex products.

Ellen and my tent at the seminar. Torbjørn was helping us!

Tuva in Irene’s anorakk. The ribbons have Irene bought in Greenland,- beautiful!

Katja’s anorak, which I’m working on at the moment…

….and Sigrid’s sweater.

And of course dogs, dogs and more dogs. My turn to race this year, and we have 10 dogs in training. The two young ones; Pippin and Karadock are doing very well. Karadock was a bit more uneven at the start of the season, but has now become a steady puller.

Karadock in team with Bronco at a hot day

Pippin together with Mithril, a boy that is eager to please his mum (read: me)

Ermine is well in to training after having her litter in the beginning of August, and is a very sweet girl! She wags her tail all the time, just like Rajah and Luna,- and even though she can be bit hot at start, she really goes the distances we have done so far.

Ermine and Vytok

On some of my training runs I have Inger with me. Nice to be two for a change!!

Inger has become familiar with the quad…

..and it’s very nice to have company out in the woods!

The rest of the team are the dogs Ulf ran last year’s Femund with, except Yippi. We put him down this summer due to a growing tendency of showing some sort of prey drive on small children. We didn’t dare risk any accidents. Yippi was our storm leader, he hated groomed trails and sunny weather, but wind and snow,- yes!! Lets hope we have another one in our team, that will show the same ability in bad weather.

Rajah and Luna, nothing but sweet!

Aki and Bosse,- always pulling!

The two teenagers, Krom and Sid are running loose on trips several times a week. Sid will become big…and might not be the sharpest, but has shown great pulling abilities already. Krom is a quiet, nicely built boy, which we like very much.

Hein and Krom on the Siberian Husky meeting in Ål.

Hein went on his first reindeer hunt with his cousin, Bjørn, this year. Unfortunatly, no reindeer.

Beautiful day for his first hunt

And this viper tried to bite through Hein’s boot..at least some exitement!

And of course there is Paikka! Our little Ermine and Albin offspring, which seems to have endless of energy and grows into a true copy of her mother.

Paikka!!

And Jojo, who has been taken part in the autumn training, both in the team and running loose.

Jojo in better shape than now..

Jojo was showed this weekend, but was unfortunately a bit fat (due to stealing high calorie dogfood..). The judge put it a bit more nicely: A bit square at the moment, and could have wished for longer loins…
But she got great critic for her expression: