I meant to buy Musher's Secret for the dogs' feet, then saw that they stock Bag Balm right next to it. Turns out that Bag Balm, at half the price of Musher's Secret, is nearly identical and does the same job, that is, keeps the dogs from getting ice balls between their toes and helps insulate them from the cold snow. 

 And it comes in a pretty box. :o)

I used to put bag balm on the cows I milked. Yes, folks, I used bag balm for exactly what it was invented: to put on cows' udders so they wouldn't get chapped.

So when I got home the weather had warmed up again, and the dogs didn't need it. The first place I used bag balm was on MY feet! The winter always dries my feet out something awful. It's great. If you have hard callouses or dry, cracked skin, bag balm is the way to go.

One of these days it will be -25 again and the dogs will get some on their feet. Until then, I'm using it on my feet.
 

 It's snowing again! We got ten inches of snow night before last, and now it is snowing again. This is GREAT news, as so far we'd only accumulated about a foot of snow, not enough for dog mushing or skiing, snowmachining or snowshoeing.

Euphoric people were all over yesterday, aglow because of the snow!

Sofia did her happy happy snow dog dance, and Ole rollllllllleed.

We're going out to play in the snow right now. 

 I already have a blog, Jean's Northern Niche, at http://inktrails.blogs.com and there is plenty to read about the dogs there, plus other things.

If I can find a way to link that blog to this one, I'll do it.

 Until then, we'll see how this goes.