May morning

8:40 AM
Bright sun in the east. Foggy clouds rolling in from the west. Skies of blue and gray.

Aptly so, as I'm trying to pull myself out of a muddle and find some happy thoughts this morning. I'm not accustomed to being alone. And I've discovered that you can be alone even with 15 dogs. I'd love to have my puppies inside with me. Especially at night. But it's the mud season here and most of them are very dirty and wet. Sookii and Ojibwe are relatively clean and in and out of the cabin but prefer sleeping out on the deck these warmish spring nights and basking in the sun all day.

Josh is back east visiting family and friends and attending the college graduation of our good friend Laura. I'm at home. Looking after our kennel and getting things in place for the summer tour season. We'll be giving dog cart rides this summer down in Fairbanks at Heavyhorse Farm. John Hoegberg owns horses and huskies and gives horseback rides in the summer at his hay fields there as well.

9:30 AM Went out to water dogs and let a few loose to stretch their legs. They went to Spade's house and starting teasing him over his bone collection. The old man has grown progressively more paranoid and nervous acting over the past winter. I decided to move him to the puppy pen where he'd have some well earned peace and quite. It's across the drive from the main dog yard. About 50 x 50 with a nice gravel base and his own house with no one to annoy him. I gave him the moose hock out of the cooker where I'd made broth for the dogs last weekend to start his new bone collection and he has already settled in and looks much happier.

Me too. Skies are clearing, along with my head.