Monday - Ground Hog Day

The Groundhog can certainly see his shadow today, so that means we have six more weeks of winter. Are we surprised? Don't we always have six weeks of winter left when it's February? Or more.



My garden rabbits are sitting on a stump in the back yard, snuggled together with a blanket of snow on them.

Another bumper sticker

This is a photo of Barrie and her lead dog Gremlin, taken several years ago in Jackson when she was in the Stage Stop. Gremlin is now gone, and Barrie doesn't wear glasses any more.

I could hear the start of the sled dog race downtown this morning, but didn't get dressed and go down to watch it. Barrie is handling and driving the truck of a friend who is running the race. She met them in Alaska, and raced and trained with them quite a bit. Then later when they moved to Montana, she lived and worked with them for a while. His wife has never learned to drive - and when his handler got hurt, he called Barrie for help. As the format of the race has changed so much - a lot of the stages are out and back in - most of them don't need a truck to be driven to pick up the team. Today, Barrie had to drive their truck to the parking lot up the Green to pick up the team.

Here is an interesting article I found today on how to be creative, if you are interested. http://www.wikihow.com/Be-Creative