Reminder: There's Really Cool Stuff to be had! - Bet

Howdy ho everybody!  Its your prepping for reporting and roving Border Collie Bet here!

Things are really getting exciting around here now that the Pretty Curly Tails are gearing up for real training in preparation for the IDITAROD!!!

As the Musher wrote, the morning soup is being doled out, the young ones are sitting it out, and the real training begins!

Since the Musher and Curly Tails are hard at work training, I thought I'd send out a reminder of the myriad ways that you can be a part of the North Wapiti team and help them get to Alaska... and look stylish and cool all at the same time!

First off, I wanted to remind you about the really cool cow sweater that the Musher helped knit.  Yeah, I bet you thought that we forgot about the sweater, but ooooh noooo, we didn't forget at all!

We will be drawing at the end of November for the person that gets this really cool, made by Musher, hand knitted from baa baa sheepy wool stuff sweater and the person that will get the really cool keeps your crampy hands warm wristie things that were knitted by Handler (smells of cookies) Helen!

For more details on these cool things, please read all about it here, then come back and get your chance in by clicking the Sweater button that's on the right hand side alllll the way down the... oh forget about that, here's the sweater button right here:

So, what else is there???

Well, we have very limited selections of sweatpants, hoodies, bumper stickers, and t-shirts.  Please contact the Musher Minions to find out what sizes we have, and how to purchase them.

We also have the really fleecy soft EXCLUSIVE North Wapiti Gee/Haw mittens!  Not only are the soft and warm, but they are educational and a great conversation piece because you know people are going to ask you what the heck Gee and Haw means, and you can tell them all about me and the Pretty Curly Tails.  You will be the envy of society with your warm, soft, fluffy, educational, totally awesome mittens.

Besides... you'll need the soft, fluffy, educational, totally awesome mittens, because they will match the next cool item we'll be rolling out soon and you don't want to mismatch, now do you??

- Bet (I'm such a tease)

Want a Really Cool Sweater? - Bet

Howdy ho everyone, this is your roving Border Collie, Bet, resting from my exciting week of reporting.

Now that the excitement of the Canadian Challenge is over, and the teams are winding down and recuperating, I thought I'd let everyone know about an exciting opportunity to own a little bit of authentic North Wapiti stuff.

When she's not musher, tending to the Curly Tails, setting off the smoke alarm while cooking, taking wonderful pictures, or blogging, the Musher actually knits!  Who know!?  She's so multi-dimensional.

This year she started this lovely sweater with a cow on the front.

Unfortunately with her busy schedule, she couldn't get the whole thing finished, so she sent it off to Joanne Lee to finish for her.  Joanne has a really nice quilt shop in some place called Maple Valley, Washington.  I'm pretty sure Maple Valley is where they make the tasty goodness syrup that goes on waffles, and therefore a wonderful place to live.  It even smells of waffles, and curly tail furs and I'm pretty sure there's even curly tail fluff weaved into the yarns, so that makes it an even better special thingy.

We guesstimate that its a size XL (human sized, not doggie size), and knitted with some soft knitty baa baa sheepy yarn stuff.

Anyhooo, we'd love for someone to win this unique, one of a kind cow sweater... oh wait, the Musher has just informed me that the proper pronunciation of the beast on the sweater is: COWABOU.

Here's what we're going to do.  There will be a minimum of 100 chances to win this cool sweater.  Helen Handler (who smells like cookies) will collect your donation: $10 per number, and assign you a number.  Once we've filled 100 numbers, we'll make an announcement that we'll be drawing the number on a specific date, to give everyone a chance to get in on the fun, then draw the number.  If your number is drawn, you get the cool sweater!

But wait, there's more!  We'll draw a second number, and the winner of the second number will get these really cool wristie things that the Musher knitted!

But wait, there's even MORE!  Third place will win their choice of a North Wapiti neck gator, or a neck scarf!

So, how do you get in on this cool fund raiser?  Well, its ridiculously simple.



Contact Handler Helen (who smells like cookies)   E-mail her at: hthorg@gmail.com

Tell her how many numbers you want ($10 each), and how you'll pay for the numbers:

You can send a check to the Musher (please note that it takes forEVER for the mail to get by Moose to our house:

Checks payable to:
Karen Ramstead
Mail to:
Karen Ramstead
Box 9
Perryvale, Alberta, Canada
T0G 1T0


Or, you can pay using Paypal.  There's a convenient "add to cart" button over there on the upper right hand side.  Just click it, it'll take you to the paypal page and you just say how many sweater numbers you want ($10 per number), and once we all verify you paid, Helen (snickerdoodle smelling handler) will send you your numbers.

Ok, that's it for now.  I have more important matters to tend to right now because we just got home!!!!!

- Bet