Diamond Dogs Racing

"I married Isis on the fifth day of May, / But I could not hold on to her very long. / So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away / For the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong. ... Isis, oh, Isis, you're a mystical child. / What drives me to you is what drives me insane. / I still can remember the way that you smiled / On the fifth day of May in the drizzlin' rain."

-- Bob Dylan, Isis

I was flipping through Sophie's journal she has to keep in language arts class, cleaning out her book bag from the school year, when I came across this entry and it made me chuckle. I've kept the penmanship and spelling errors because I thought they were cute.

"If I could go anywhere I wanted, I would go to Alaska. I would go to Alaska to sled trained dogs. I would sleep in a caban with my dogs. My dogs names are Maindy, Foxy and Jack. My family would ski cross country and I will have fun. We would build an igloo. Then we would go back to the caban for a good night sleep. This is where I would go if I could go anywhere I wanted."

Below this entry she's drawn a picture of a cabin. Above the picture, she wrote "A pictar of my caban" and beside it some straw is drawn with arrows pointing down and she wrote "were (should be where) dogs sleep. Hay."

A girl after my own heart! Clearly, she was conceived in a cabin in Wyoming in Teton National Forest on the grounds of Frank Teasley's place and the Jackson Hole Iditarod Sleddog tours? :-)