Thanksgiving

Had a wonderful nontraditional holiday. We decided to celebrate Alaskan style and have a seafood thanksgiving! It was great and the left overs the next day were even better.

I have to say that taking the extra meat off an Alaskan king crab carcass is much better than taking it off of turkey, and much tastier too! James and I really liked the holiday treat and plan on doing it again!

It was a very fitting way to celebrate our thanks this year. We have so many things to be thankful for and in reflecting this morning we both wholeheartedly agreed that we dont need Christmas presents. We have allowed ourselves to receive so much that we really cant thing of another thing!

A short list of what this year has brought goes as follows... 40 acres of land in Talkeetna (future home of the kennel and the Sled Dog Sanctuary), a new mattress that we tested out just last night (will be great therapy for James' back pain), a new sled that will be coming for my 'birthday' but really is a necessity for our tour clients, new arctic outer wear (nothing too out of the ordinary but needed items after 10 years of wear to the old stuff!) and the new dog truck that will be coming very, very soon.

There is also Nita's new dog trailer to be thankful for that we are currently building and the new dog box that will be built on the new dog truck. The trailer project will be complete in a few weeks but the new dog box will most likely carry over into next year. Just another thing to be thankful for in 2010!! :)

And I would like to point out to everyone reading this post that the more we focus on the positive the more positive comes our way. Same goes with negative thoughts... keep that in mind for what you choose in life, for that is what it truely is... a choice...

It only takes a moment to turn a negative thought around and watch it build on to other positive thoughts throughout the day. You will see your life turn around in the most amazing of ways!

As promised I am posting a sneak peak into the trailer and detailed views of the husky hair overmits. These have been super and so warm!

Now Ive got to get back to work. So many things still to do and the warm weather outside my window (at zero degrees) to taunt me into outdoor fun. Will be hard to say no but tomorrow is another scheduled run for the team and plenty of time for adventure. The dogs have to stay in tip top shape for our ride clients and we are more than spoiled by the extra 'excuse' to play in the snow!