Official Pretty Curly Tail Ensembles - Bet

Howdy Ho everybodies!

I wanted to thank all of you who voted in the official poll to determine what the Pretty Curly Tails will be wearing to the 2014 Iditarod.  It was very exciting watching the poll numbers climbing and trying to figure out what their colors would be... ok, so it was pretty close and not so exciting, but we're happy to announce that...

are you ready....

are you sure you're ready?

Ok, fine!  Eesh, cranky much today??

Ganglines will be purple!!!  The Musher is very happy about that.  She really REALLY wanted purple ganglines, so when that won by 72% of the vote, she actually did a little happy dance.

Tug/neck lines... well, purple officially won out by 1% of the vote.  It was 68% purple, 67% red... but we can't have purple everything... that would just make it confusing on the trail when the Musher is tired, brain dead, and has to untangle the Pretty Curly Tails (yes, it happens), so we'll be going with red tug/neck lines this year.

The booty ensemble will be a fabulous neon green!  Our Donna F. Bootie Minion picked out this FABulous material for the booties

We also learned that Donna F. Bootie Minion ran a 5k race, finished, then fell down and broke things in her hand... congratulations on finishing the race... ooooh.... eeeeesh.... get well soon Donna F. Bootie Minion!!!!

ANYHOOO!!!

In case you want to know what the final ensemble will look like, I had the Cartoonist draft an example for you (and for once she wasn't swigging Nyquil).

Of course, when I showed the Musher, she insisted that you all wouldn't get the full effect without a full team of dogs shown from the front, side, and top.  ahem... I could barely get the scatterbrained Cartoonist to draw one dog, let alone a team, and various angles... so I had a go at it.

See!  The sled will be black with red trim, the harnesses will be red, and everyone will be all color coordinated and matched and stylish!

We want to send out a hugey HUGE thank you to Alpine Outfitters for the pretty purple ganglines!!

Alpine Outfitters, official wonderful sponsor of the Pretty Sled Dogs and North Wapiti!

Go there and tell them how wonderful we think they are

Well... except for the Musher, we still have some outfit selections to go through.  Frankly I'm not real thrilled with her first example.

We have a LOT of work to do here.

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Ensembles - Bet

Howdy Ho Everybodies!

It's a nice, chilly 56 degrees here at North Wapiti, and with the cool weather, that only means one thing!

ENSEMBLES!

That's right!  Oh sure, the Musher and the Pretty Curly Tails will be out training now that the temperatures are getting colder, but more importantly it means that I need to start my 2014 shopping extravaganza to find the perfect ensembles.

Since 2014 will be the final Iditarod for North Wapiti, and since I have the best fashion sense out of the whole kennel, the Musher has asked me to pick out the FABulous colors for the team's race in March.  I'm very excited.

Now, don't get me wrong... the Musher does have some good fashion sense when it comes to her ensembles, but when it comes to Musher ensembles... well...

Red/Black.... Black/Red.... I mean it's as if she grew up and only had the box of 8 basic crayons and has no clue there are other colors out there.

I told her that I would take care of the matching of the ensembles this year so she could concentrate on the whole sleddy sled training part, and she seemed happy enough to let me have that responsibility.

I went out and looked at all of the fantabulous colors that are available on the Alpine Outfitters site.  Alpine Outfitters are the wonderously fantabulous peoples that are making our lines for the 2014 Iditarod.

Go and buy stuffs and things from them, they're really cool

If I haven't mentioned before, they are great peoples and their stuffs and things are great.  Even the Cartoonist bought a harness from them for her slightly overweight, mainly lots of fluff and now on a diet thanks to the Musher Siberian Husky, and they both love it.

So, I've picked out some basic matchy match colors and want all of you peoples to help with the final decision making, so I've put a poll out on this bloggity blog.  Please note, the final decision is mine, especially if all of you pick some dreadful concoction, but I have faith that all of you have very good ensemble sense and won't go wacky on us.  Just look at the top right hand side of the bloggity blog and there are two polls... if you are looking at this on a mobile device you won't see the polls... so get thee to a normal computer thingie and vote.

Here are the colors so that you can see them in their actual glory:

So, what color do you like for the gang lines, and what color do you like for the tug lines and neck lines?

What?  Are some of you saying "Bet, what the heck are gang lines, tug lines, and neck lines, have you gone crazy?"

Oh, I forget that some of you aren't as in the know about the whole mushing thing, so I drew this very helpful diagram to show you stuffs and things.

So, the gang line things and stuffs are the main line that connects to the sled.  From that are the tug lines (because the Pretty Curly Tails tug the sled along), and then they are attached by neck lines so they don't get all tangly and go sniffing around for lovely dead caribou things and stuffs along the trails.

I've even shown you who the wheel dogs, team dogs, swing dogs and lead dogs are!  Aren't I clever?

Anyhoo, the gang lines need to be a different color than the tugs and neck lines because when there's a tangle, the Musher wouldn't be able to figure out what goes where, who belongs to what, what was a gang line, neck line, tug line, etc.   Like this:

So, get out there and vote on the new fashionable Pretty Curly Tail ensembles!!!!