Jeffrey,
Yup, will do. And funny you mention Comet again...my sister got to
reflecting on Comet again the other day too...she says she loved him most of
all, because he was so 'Com-ical' :) But truly, he was an 'entertainer'
amongst us. Here he is again 'one more once'
http://tullibardine.bizland.com/Comet.chtml

And here's our 'In Memorium' page (includes links to a couple non-Chinook
dog memorials as well) http://tullibardine.bizland.com/InMemorium.chtml
I've got so MANY more Individual (living!:) dog pages and another half dozen
Memorials to put up too (for those who left us before I began to mount pages
for each of our dogs not so long ago). I started with our stud pages, and
I'm not done with them all, while all my girls are patiently waiting for
their 15 minutes on the net still too! And SO much narrative I've asked
Jack to begin to add to each of them...

And the REAL Chinook Memorial Cemetary here (North end of the farmyard, and
on the edge of the woods), is also becoming more sculptured with each dogs'
passing. The cemetary is but one part of our 'living history' plans here on
the farm, where folks will be allowed to walk in or out of the farmyard thru
it's pathways. Jack is in the process of mounting an obelisk in the center
with a northerly facing placard to 'Old Polaris' who took Peary to the North
Pole, and Southerly facing placard to Polaris' great grandson, 'Old Chinook'
(breed founder), and his 15 sons who went with him to Antarctica on BAE I.
Jack drew the monument and layout for me atleast 5 years ago; and we're
pleased to finally begin to see the fruits of our labors on this project.
The burial layout is a wheel and a genealogical wheel, where our founders
are buried in the nearest circle to the center, and their descendants will
radiate outward and around them thru time. Each pathway will be a spoke to
this wheel, so folks can stop to read the names etched in marker stones of
our dogs ancestors. We've got many more rocks to move and grades to fill
(there will also be a circular gravel farm drive around the cemetary,
leading to the new kennels); but the cornerstones have been laid, and 5 of
our Chinooks have already been laid to rest in their rightful positions,
waiting for their center obelisk to be set :)

SO; when kids and young breeders and old folks and old breeders drive in and
walk thru these shaded and serene pathways one day, they will not only know
what each of these dogs meant to US, but also might FEEL what they STILL
MEAN to the LIVING dogs in the new kennels structure at path's end (30 X 50'
quonset - another of our 'spare time' construction projects this summer)!
(And can you tell we come from a family of amateur historians and
geneologists? :) The cemetary is beautiful and serene already, still in
it's rugged/construction state. Jack began a stone wall in front last week.
It's where we go sit already to have a lemonade in haying season and on days
as hot as these...

And I do find myself spending most all of my days now in intimate chat with
my kennel full of Chinook beauties...in heaven on earth already, I am :)
Was trying to keep that a secret, but I get overwhelmed with both pride and
joy when I'm working with my dogs at home here and on their web 'walks of
fame' :) And 'Life is forever', as my dad used to say...

Susan

----- Original Message -----
From: <jjeffrey@...>
To: <ChinookSledDogs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 10:46 PM
Subject: [CSD] Re: [LegacySleddogs] Northdown Lance 1992 - 2005


> Susan, you be sure and let us know when you've got Lance's memorial page
> together. I for one look forward to seeing it, as I was knocked out by the
> one you did for Comet. It was so warm and so full of feeling, that it made
> me feel almost as though I had known Comet myself. And the captions were
> like an intimate chat you were having with your old red buddy . . . I
> loved it, and I hope you'll do as well for Lance.
> Jeffrey
>