Searchin' For A Rainbow (05/22/2010)

Well, it's that time again. Things have warmed up quite a bit here in lovely Carolina. The garden is flourishing, house projects are abundant, my job is doing very well and I got a kennel full of awesome, hardy healthy huskies :) So I reckon I can't really complain there.

Recently (outside of dogs) though, I have resurrected my obsession with storms and severe weather as the summer clouds roll in and I hear the great sound of southern thunder and rain on our tin roof. I constantly check the radar for cells and get childlike with excitement when I hear NWS alerts on the radio. I can't help but LOVE it when I get stuck driving out on some back dirt road and the lightning strikes all around me, to look down the gorge and see the river splashing around, feel the rain splash over the door handle and hear the water skid beneath the tires... my love of summer. A beautiful friend once told me "I never liked the rain untill I walked through it with you..."

Other than that though, It's been here and there with the dogs. The pups are HUGE and already 20 weeks old! Still all legs and ears, I still call them radar babies :) Kajunn has developed into a split image of both her mama and papa. She certainly has the attitude and head of her mama, but the long legs and build of her papa. I still have 5 out of 6 original pups though - Tuesday, Hatter, Smoke Stack, Kajunn, and Breeze. Breeze will be leaving soon though, as well as another puppy, both going to the same mushing home in TN. Bullet is now with Mountain Forest Siberians in KY and will be a team member as well. I really hope I can finish up homing the pups soon though.. I really don't want to see them leave at ALL, but unfortunately I do not have unlimited space and soon they will be big enough for stakeouts of their own. Smokestack is really gotten to me lately as he grows, man he is HANDSOME! Wish I could keep two, but alas...  He has some great features about him and is one of the sweetest pups there is. He is also a brickhouse and knows how to use his strength... I think he will be an awesome wheeler on someones team. Heck, I think he personally has the most show potential out of the whole litter!

I keep meaning to get new pictures, but all the ones I get aren't really good profile shots and then my camera dies, but soon! I will update them and you probably won't be able to recognize them.

I have been having alot of difficulty lately though, coping with the thought of how much I really despise my kennel setup. I don't mean how the dog yard is layed out (that, I DO like!) I mean WHERE it is. For those of you who do not know the whole story, I will post that in another blog some other time. To make it short, I cannot have my dogs where I live now so I only get to see them for a few hours after work then usually I bring one or two over to where I am living now for a night or so on the weekends then it's back to the same old thing...For this reason, I have began the life of a mobile musher camping out in our training grounds almost every weekend for most of the year, hot or cold. At least there I can spend all the time I want with them and be away from everything that I cannot change for now. I just tell myself that one day soon, things will be OK and we can have a place again where we can all be together and I can just go out the back door and spend all evening with them if I wanted to. I just miss it, and it disgusts me.

currently as well, I have been lost in music. There is one song that sums up the way I feel, if there could ever be me turned into a song.

"And I'm searchin for a rainbow, and if the wind ever shows me where to go, you'd be waiting at the end and I know, I'll say to hell with that pot of gold.
I'll say to hell with that pot of gold" ~ Marshall Tucker Band 'Searchin' For A Rainbow'

So In turn, I guess I really am searching for that pot of gold, but I think I'd say to hell with it in the end cause I might just have to move on again with my dawgs like the wind through the hollar.....