Nice weather for outside chores.

Just a note before bed. I made a comment on another blog and hav esent messages to several friends on face book.

I will get my new computer system up and on line this week end. Hope to have windows 7 by then.

Bye Glenn

new monday

here i go again for the goal

New work old hand

New Name

I still find it very hard to navigate around the various applications. The easy that others have may come with practice I hope.

Gone Fishing for the Blog

It has been a fast moving few days. Visit with my sons, guests over for lunch Sunday, house guests from South Carolina ( My sons uncle Bob and Cynthia), other birthdays, and trying to make my old computer work.

Well I wish that you have a good week. 

Hello and Welcome to Fall

Have had a busy 3 to 5 days and falling asleep here at my keyboard. Thuirsday and Friday I was able to visit with my 2 adult children who where on their way to a wedding in Vermont. We celebrated my youngest boy's birthday which was great. Both of my sons live in New Mexico so seeing them both at one time is great.
Next on the way home from New Hampshire we went to the Brunswick Jung Center's annual  membership dinner. As usual there were presentations between the main course and desert.

Today it was rainy but we had guests over for lunch.We all had a breat time with a lot of laughs.
I am trying to get caught up on the Social Networking support sites but I have very few pictures in my files and my digital camera has dumped all photos. I will try to use another camera if I can find the ubs cord or just bring the memory chip to class.

The processes are interesting but the hardware and software requiremnts are many especially when I do not use electonic capabilities in either a work or advocation. I think one soultion is to get a blackbery but then I will have to learn to thumb type. Oh being older is fun.

   

Sons in Manchester

Few times do I get to visit with my two sons who both live in Albuquerque. Last evening we had dinner and celebrated Kirk's birthday. I wish that there were more times to get together and do other things rather than just have a small party.

Good Friend and Good Medicine

I have worked with northern dogs since 1982. I started with 1 as a help when cross country skiing and winter camping in the Rockies and Uintahs. After 7 years I found myself living in Germany and got involved with a German sled dog club. I had over 20 dogs at one time and raced as a hobby in Norway, Germany, France, and Austria. The German club was a sport club and not out for money. We camped out on weekends, trained together, had seminars on dog care and training, and drank tons of coffee with cake. I will always treasure the warm hearted nature of fellow German Mushers. I needed to return to the states in 2000 and from then on I have only raced in several races in Maine. The drivers or sled dog owners in the states are much more about money and competition and do not willingly offer help to others. As you will sense from my blog  postings I am very concerned that the level of competition and the concept of win at all cost keeps the violent behavior of Americans always near the surface.   

Clear Cutting or I Can Do What I Want With My Land

My neighbor clear cut over 15 acres on the property next to my property. Do whatever you want if you own the land. We are a cut and burn society that does not believe in nonviolent solutions. My way or the highway!

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Sunday evening here in Maine

I had an idea this morning about the underlying theme for my postings. It was influenced by an article in Health and Spirituality on a good death. I have been faced with dangerous situations as I was growing up and for much of my adult life. I do not claim to have the most violence of anyone in my life but like many other people there was an undercurrent of poverty and dangerous family jobs. That is that my family relied on coal mining for our livelyhood. Over the years my grand father, father, uncle and other friends died from accidents in the mining industry. When I was in first grade my friend Dick had his father killed while working alongside my father. In that accident my father was only slightly injured. It would be later that my dad was killed in the mines.

Poverty has it's violence as most of the people around the world and many people in our country know all to well. When you are porr you must do dangerous work that others will not do. The other ongoing violence in my life was WWII, Korea Conflict, Vietnam, and all the military conflicts over the past 20 years. I spent 2 tours of duty in Vietnam and a total 21 years in the Army working on hostile borders in Europe and in Korea. My second career was in Europe where i taught the children of the soldiers, airmen and women who faught the all gulf wars and othe conflicts in central Europe.

Fall and the Dogs

This not one of my skills. Image trying to get comfortable with blogging when you remember computer punch card readers as input /output. Well who cares when it is fall and the weather is getting cool for my Huskies.

I will take a few lines to explain my blog site. It is an practice task for a seniors course. The name is part of my story over the past 20+ years. I am in Maine for the cool weather that Northern dogs need and Anika is the name of one of my most wonderful dogs. She was born in Germany and she could be a lead dog, a good team dog, a good mother, and good friend. While living in Germany I was fortunate to have 12 to 14 adult dogs most of the time. As a hobby I belonged to a sleddog club which sponsored several races each year. We also ran in other races around Germany, Austria, France, and Norway.

I never participated other than for the fun but it gave me a lot of joy to spend time training and traveling around with the members of our club. Well back to Anika who lived to be 161/2 years old. One rainy night I was alarmed by the dogs barking which is not common for Huskies. I looked out and saw Anika making her grand daughter, Silva Queen, get out of the dry dog house to take a turn at being the sentry. This went on forover 3o minutes with Anika making Silva Queen get out of the dog house and get on top of the dog house. Silva Quenn would get out then get on top but when Anika went inside her dog house Silva jumped down and into her house. Finally Silva gave into the directions from Anika and stayed out ontop of one of the dog houses. Silva who is just as smart as her grandmother was decided that if she had no choice except to be the sentry she would be a bad sentry and kept sounding the alarm(barking to alert) the others for the next half hour or until one of the other dogs had guard duty. This is but one of the many great times I have had while keeping sleddogs. I do not permit any new litters of dogs since I am getting older and have a agreement with my dogs that I will stay in a cool climate while they live.

When I came back to the Unite States I had 13 dogs but now from the dogs I brought from Germany I only have 4 left. I have adopted 2 older dogs(sisters) who had been abandoned ande really needed a safew home. After a few months the other dog accepteed the 2 adopted dogs but the original loyalties of the pack are strong. I have been given the gift that when one of my dogs have passed I get signals from the environment that that dog has made the passage. Many times the message is from the crows and othe rtimes it is a dream either day or night. One of the most awsome signals was on a cdold winter day herew in Maine when I looked out to see a light brown colored wolf in the woods by my house. Whether the wolf was really or a vision I knew that something special had happened.

Well got to go and feed my dogs yet I am interestesd in what will happen with my on and on possibly boring posting,

Be well with love ande peace.
Glenn

learning to blog

here i am trying to think young and be tekki while my grandson knows these things by heart.