Dirty Paws

It’s been a while since I’ve had time to write anything. We’ve just been so busy! The lead up to Christmas is full of additional work and activities, Ender and I just finished our course work on Monday, and we have both been super busy adjusting our lives around her….

That’s right, she’s ours! After a waiting a few days and returning with a solid offer, the owners changed their minds. We’ve had Korra for over a month now.

Other than the pain of having to rearrange our Christmas travel plans (we are now driving) so far things are going well. And now that our course is finished I can really focus on training her.  

Earlier this year Ender ordered a reflector telescope. So far he's only been able to take the kids out once to see the moon. It’s been constantly overcast and on the rare occasions when the clouds do let up it’s too cold to be outside for very long. This week has been the coldest so far, dropping down to -40 with the wind chill. We will likely need to wait until the spring before an evening class can be arranged.

Because our class has been reading Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet, Ender has been going over survival skills with our students. We spent an afternoon last week making a fire and cooking bannock outside. That day the Northern store held a snowman building competition as well. It hasn't been warm enough for packing snow for weeks so our snowmen were pretty pathetic.  

This year for the Christmas concert we are joining our two classes together to sing two songs, Ho Hey by the Lumineers and Dirty Paws by Of Monsters and Men. The kids are having a great time singing and we’re all really excited to perform. For Dirty Paws we have also created a shadow puppet show which I’ll be running while they sing. I absolutely love the puppets they have made so far.

There are only two school days remaining and then it’s time to go home for two weeks to visit family and friends.