Pennsylvania Sled Dog Club Meeting - May 30th, 2009

Greetings!

Blake and I drove home from the Duluth airport yesterday afternoon making comments on how good it was to be home and greeted with cold clouds, sleet, rain and snow! It was really beautiful in PA and it was also tempting to delay our trip in Detroit and go see my sister. She was getting ready to go ride her horses in beautiful sunny fields... Our pups were happy to see us and everyone was happy and healthy back home thanks to Karl and Erin. Karl spent the weekend taking care of about 100 animals as he was caring for both our kennel and my mothers small hobby farm! Thank you Karl!!

We truly had a fantastic trip to Pennsylvania and met so many wonderful people! What a great club with so much enthusiasm and love for their dogs. We were grateful to have had the opportunity to meet everyone. There were several people we had gotten to know through the internet, and it was really nice to meet them face to face. We could have easily spent many more hours talking to everyone at the event. We enjoyed sharing our stories and experiences with everyone and felt our presentation went well despite my cold. I was able to speak pretty well with the help of cough drops, and thankfully Blake was healthy!

Thank you VERY much to Pat Bach for arranging a beautiful booth of items for sale to support of 2010 Iditarod team and Bonnie Lundberg and Joan Shepherd for mailing items to sell and raffle. Thank you to everyone who came by and supported our team.

We are both back to work today, myself at the clinic and Blake in the Superior National Forest... more soon!

~Jen

Ziggy/Bodo Puppies (Born: March 17th, 2009)

Teacher Kari Green's 7th grade English class at Monticello Middle school painted DOG NAME Signs for Jen and Blake Frekings kennel. Each sign had a team of 3 students and they had to research the name and come up with a design. Each team also wrote a letter to Jen & Blake explaining how they came up with the design & also wished them well in the Iditarod ( the letters are priceless ). VERY fun !! Thanks to all the wonderful students and to the teachers who allowed their students to have so much fun !!!