Chetspeak On Sunday
And then we were off, out of our neighborhood, up onto the freeway, into the passing lane. Vroom! I sank against the back rest.
“This baby can fly!” Bernie said.
Or something like that, his voice drowned out by a siren. Then a motorcycle came whizzing up beside us, blue lights flashing, and we pulled over. But no problem: it was Fritzie Bortz, an old pal. He got off the bike, not without some trouble – Fritzie was a terrible motorcycle driver with lots of crashes on his record – and came up to Bernie’s side.
“Hey!” he said. “Bernie!”
“Hi, Fritzie.”
“And Chet – lookin’ good, Chet.”
So nice to see Fritzie. My tail started wagging.
“How’re things?” Fritzie said.
“No complaints,” said Bernie.
“New wheels?”
“Uh-huh.”
“Cool. Love those martini glasses – wouldn’t have bothered pulling you over otherwise. I was actually on my way home – haven’t had a day off since last Tuesday.”
“No one’s ever said you’re not a hard worker.”
“Thanks, Bernie. I do what I can.” Then he took out his ticket book, flipped a page, reached behind his ear for a pen.
“Fritzie? What are you doing?”
“Writing you up,” Fritzie said. “Might even make my quota on this – I had you at one-oh-three.”
– from A Fistful Of Collars
Tags: A Fistful of Collars, Chetspeak, Fritzie Bortz
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8:10 am on March 22nd, 2015
Whoo hoo! Team Snowhook safe, Chetspeak (mom chuckled at that one), Egg Day (and they have been eaten for breakfast) and life is good, amigo. Hope AJ and Rebecca enjoy the banquet. Only 5 more mushers on the trail. We think Cindy, who is doing the 8 in White Mt. will be the only one still out. We also have our paws and tails crossed for Sammy.
Have a super special Sunday.
8:25 am on March 22nd, 2015
Good morning, and Happy Egg Day!
Fritzie! What are ya’ thinking? You can’t give Bernie a ticket, for Dog’s sake.
What time is the banquet? We think maybe Cindy could make it.
8:41 am on March 22nd, 2015
O’H Marcelle Fresineau (?) just came in. She has huskies?
8:44 am on March 22nd, 2015
O’H, Cindy Abbot is at 906 finishing mandatory 8. She has almost 70 miles to go.
8:44 am on March 22nd, 2015
She has huskies, but not Sibes. :). It was Isabelle that races the Sibes. She finished a little earlier this morning, and was the 5th Sibe team. Still 4 more teams out there. It’s not over until the last musher is in.
10:18 am on March 22nd, 2015
and the last dog howls.
10:25 am on March 22nd, 2015
What “new” car is Bernie driving? I don’t remember. A new Porsche?
Good morning all.
10:26 am on March 22nd, 2015
Chetspeak made me laugh. Always a Good Way to Start the Day.
Good Morning Everybody! Look what we found yesterday when clicking on what we thought was a link to yesterday’s conversation. Instead we found ourselves Back in Time via the Wayback Machine…Back in Time to March 26, 2011…What a Trip Down Memory Lane! (and appropriate too)
http://chetthedog.wpengine.com/chet-the-dog/snowhook
10:28 am on March 22nd, 2015
Good morning and Happy Egg Day.
We remember that scene. Guess Bernie was going a little too fast to just get off with a warning.
10:33 am on March 22nd, 2015
Barb,Magpie,Lucy: It was the Dang Quota. Officer Fritzie ignored his friendship with Chet & Bernie to make his quota for the day.
Not Cool. Not Cool at all.
How is Sammy doing this morning? We have been worried.
10:38 am on March 22nd, 2015
BSD, we truly enjoyed the trip in the Way Back Machine 🙂
10:42 am on March 22nd, 2015
Howlers: Sorry to have missed those Sibe teams come in. We snooze, we lose.
Now will have to wait for the video to show up on the Insider.
If Cindy Abbott somehow does make it to the Banquet, she will walk in in the middle of it.
If not, I hope they keep a plate warm for her.
Thank you for your fine reporting yesterday, HOH and everyone for the links.
10:58 am on March 22nd, 2015
I love Chetspeak. I play “Name that book”. And got it. LOL
All y’all sober fans, I want to introduce you to a friend of mine.
http://wolfsinger-lakota.blogspot.com
She started training sibs as service dogs (then guide dogs when she started needing those), mbecause people told her it couldn’t be done. Silly nonsense, of course.
11:01 am on March 22nd, 2015
What a blast from the past. Thanks for posting that link, BSD.
11:03 am on March 22nd, 2015
Buddy, thank you. That was very interesting 🙂
11:04 am on March 22nd, 2015
We thought you might enjoy seeing a recent photo of Jace. Mom and Jace spent several hours tossing pebbles across the driveway, and then back again. Apparently this activity takes creat concentration.
11:07 am on March 22nd, 2015
I was in charge of supervision.
11:10 am on March 22nd, 2015
If you have not yet watched the video of Lev Schvartz at the Finish, do watch. Warning: it will make you cry.
11:10 am on March 22nd, 2015
Unfortunately, his mom won’t ever see these photos because Jace isn’t allowed to be barefoot in the great outdoors.
11:22 am on March 22nd, 2015
Wolfie, wow is Jace getting big! Germs and stubbed toes are all a part of growing up! He looks none the worse for the experience.
11:26 am on March 22nd, 2015
Chet: I can hardly believe Fritzie wrote Bernie a ticket. What a doofus! It makes for an excellent story, though.
11:41 am on March 22nd, 2015
Good Morning All–So glad nearly everyone is back and that the Snowhook Team finished successfully.
Looking forward to a busy and fulfilling day and I hope y’all are too.
Dainty licks (as always, kind of sloppy from Edgar, with a hint of teeth from Conan) and head bumps from all here.
11:52 am on March 22nd, 2015
Wolfie: Thank You for the latest photos of Jace. He is beyond Adorable! And, what a Fine Supervisor and Protector you are. He is a very fortunate little boy.
Buddy and O’Howlers: Will go to your links ASAP.
But First…Breakfast!
11:58 am on March 22nd, 2015
Chetspeak on Sunday — I love this scene!
Wolfie, Jace is a beautiful child. You are a good protector.
Hoping all the other mushers are safe and sound.
Good morning everyone.
12:10 pm on March 22nd, 2015
BSD – thanks for the link. There were some laughs and more than just a few sniffles.
Remember when the Plunderers’ goal was to raise $500 to sponsor Whitey-Lance?
Good day to all of you. The weather guy has now predicted that we will not see 60 degree temps til after April 12th, which will make this the coldest, longest winter in recoreded history. woo hoo. Yeah, that is a great goal to look forward to, huh?
12:12 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Wolfie: Sweet pictures of you and Jace.
BearSpiritDog: Thanks for the link to Chet’s blog from memory lane.
Buddy, Leno & Hilda: I would’ve been one of those who’d say you can’t train a Siber to be a guide dog. The Wolfsinger blog lady is very interesting.
12:47 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Buddy,Leno,Hilda: Sibes Can Be Trained?
O’Howlers: Carpola! The Insider-Less Video kept cutting out!
12:56 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Cherokee & Tundra’s Mom might disagree 🙂
1:25 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Oh my dog! Sibers can be trained? It may take me awhile to recover from this news.
Buddy, I am sending that article to the president of NM Siberian Husky Rescue.
Wolfie, Enjoyed the pictures of you and Jace….cute kid and I like the name, Jace.
Bernie has excellent taste in cars. I always suspected that is where Siber-H acquired his love of Porsches.
Barb, How is Sammy today?
1:27 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Congratulations to all the Siberian teams in the Iditarod. You guys did good! You make me very proud.
1:37 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Bear, Thank you for the link to our past. It was so cool reading all those posts about Snowhook….(whispering) Baseball was even mentioned.
It is going to be 75 degrees here today. I am going outside later.
1:40 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Eleven miles to go for Cindy Gallea…she is just going over the cape.
1:42 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Back from a little shopping. Very cute pics of Jace, and what could be wrong with being barefoot outside? Barb stills go barefoot all the time.
Thanks for asking about Sammy The S**t. He seems to be doing better. Ate his food last night and this morning (rice and boiled chicken) and seems to be acting normal. He has diarrhea but that is better than being plugged I think. At least that means there is not a blockage.
T & G, we don’t have warm weather in our near future either. Marigolds started inside are sprouting, but not much going on outside.
Time for a nap!
1:44 pm on March 22nd, 2015
SHM: 75 degrees is maybe not SiberH’s idea of great weather, but I know you will enjoy ^..^
1:48 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Barb,Magpie,Lucy: That is Great News about Sammy (the s**t)! Thank Dog the VET knew what he was talking about.
Now we can all relax and take a nap.
1:52 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Trent Herbst is 4 miles behind Cindy Gallea. C. Abbott and team may, or may not, be stirring at White Mountain. Dare we hope?
2:05 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Barb, I am glad Sammy, the s**t, is doing better. I agree,
diarrhea is better than a blockage.
2:09 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Hey!
I’m trying to eat my breakfast here.
I’m glad Sammy the s**t is doing better.
I’m going to have Iditarod withdrawals very soon.
3:21 pm on March 22nd, 2015
As of 3:15, Allen Stevens and Cindy Gallea have finished. Trent Herbst is about 3 miles out. Cindy Abbot is holding on to the Red Lantern and is STILL resting in White MT. She is the last musher on the trail. Pray she and her dogs have the gumption to get into Nome.
Glad to hear Sammy the sh*t is doing better.
3:27 pm on March 22nd, 2015
BTW, Wolfie, the s son and his newest sponge are coming to dinner (feel like a 60’s movie with Spencer Tracy and Kathryn Hepburn). They invited themselves 🙁
Fortnutely the DDD and the boarder in the basement have straightened the house as they deem fit. (As Sgt. Schultz used to say, “I know nothing, nothing.”) I contributed the shopping. I might set the table…it it isn’t too much effort.
4:12 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Right now the only musher on the trail is Cindy Abbot who seems to still be resting at White Mt.. Hope all is Okay.
4:27 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Poor Sammie the Sh*t is now stuck with that sobriquet – not to be confused with our own Princess Sammie. She is not a sh*t. Is she?
Got an email from ITC saying the banquet is tonight. We are sorry that not all who made the trek can be there. We are hoping that our theory about AJ rescuing a musher trapped on the ice is true, and that he will get the Sportsman Award for that. He certainly deserves recognition for his proclivity towards taking care of others. Two and four legged.
Mama’s one bright spot of thinking spring – she just got a new pocketbook that is a pretty turquoise color – no more of her winter black bag (sorry AJ). She needed something colorful.
4:37 pm on March 22nd, 2015
I imagine that Lance Mackey will get the Sportsman Award for bringing in Scott J.’s dogs into Koyuk.
4:38 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Cindy Abbot, the red lantern musher is out of White Mt. She has 64 miles so we are sure she will miss the banquet BUT she looks like a finisher at this point.
T&G’s Mama, everyone needs a spring bag after the doldrums of winter.
Perhaps if all comes out in the end, we can change the name to “Sammy the sweet”.
4:41 pm on March 22nd, 2015
I agree with Dawson…too much press about Lance Mackey rescuing Scott Jannseen’s dogs and no story about the Ice with AJ. Also, they will want to honor a previous winner (Lance) and his kicking cancer to the curb and mushing with problems(yada, yada) and we will see his 2 dogs dropping dead swept under the rug. OOPS, did our mom say that?
4:50 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Well, dammit – our AJ better get some kind of award or we are going to be in a Very Bad Mood!
4:54 pm on March 22nd, 2015
WE of the HOH await left over, several day, old tuna noodle casserole with baity breath. If we don’t get it…well y’all know how we will feel. We also think our AJ is pretty durned special!
4:58 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Well, we would all give AJ an award. I want to give him the “buddy-system” award for traveling with another musher during the dangerous trip from Shatoolik to Koyuk even though he likes to travel alone.
I noticed that his speed increased a bit when he was traveling with a buddy.
4:59 pm on March 22nd, 2015
And, goes without saying, “dreamiest” musher.
5:01 pm on March 22nd, 2015
We would settle for him winning one of the brand-spanking new trucks in the raffle. Especially if the winning ticket was one he found on the floor.
5:11 pm on March 22nd, 2015
River lived his snow hook package from c.hobbit thanks so much for including him as a plunderer!
5:11 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Bella deserves an award also!
5:12 pm on March 22nd, 2015
River is adorable! Almost as cute as Jace!
5:31 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Cindy Abbot, the Red Lantern musher is 68 miles out and heading for Nome. Last year’s Red Lantern was Marcelle Fresineau who placed hight this year.
5:39 pm on March 22nd, 2015
We are so GLAD to hear from River and his Mom!
Cheering for the Red Lantern!
Go Cindy!!
5:41 pm on March 22nd, 2015
River looks like his daddy. Without the beard and body art of course. LOL
Wolfie, Is Breena still sowing her wild oats?
Hang in there Cindy Abbot, you are almost home!
5:48 pm on March 22nd, 2015
5:50 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Just 65 miles to go for the Red Lantern. Now 1:49 in Nome…Nope, Shje wil be fashionably tarday!
5:51 pm on March 22nd, 2015
River, what a face! We can see your lineage in you! (a bit of both sides,we think)
5:55 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Snowing like crazy here, but it won’t last long this time of year.
Thank you C. Hobbit for all the cool race stuff. All very interesting. You are so sweet to think of us wimps that didn’t make it in person.
ML. Are you still in the meat department or are you a bag lady? And I mean that in only the nicest way. Last night when you said to think about the biggest bag of groceries x eight, we wondered if you switched departments. I think the deli would be a nice section. That would be Barb’s first choice.
6:14 pm on March 22nd, 2015
C.Hobbit: Thank you for the Iditarod material. It’s fun going through it all. I especially like the Activity Map.
I bought a new stand for the beautiful vanGogh Starry Night vase that Tupper’s Mama made for me.
6:20 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Awww Bee. So glad you have that.
We got our race oAckage too. What wonderful stuff! Gramps us loving all the info – now he understands much more of what we are talking about.
7:09 pm on March 22nd, 2015
We like the newspapers article that gave stats on all the 78 starters. That was very interesting. So sweet of C Hobbit to send it to us.
Yesterday when we spent hours waiting at the vets, we shared a waiting room with a senior Min-Pin that reminded us of Macy and a Karelina Bear Dog, who we had never seen in person before. She was beautiful!
7:23 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Barb – you stumped us with that one. Had to look it up. They are indeed lovely dogs. We are guessing spitz family?
7:48 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Cindy and team are running at a good clip…42 miles to go… maybe they can smell Nome.
Great foto of River!
8:05 pm on March 22nd, 2015
T & G, yes we are thinking Spitz family. She was a beautiful black and white dog, and not overly friendly, which I think is a characteristic – devoted to family but leery of strangers. She walked over to me and I scratched her back, but she did not make eye contact with me, as I was not worthy of her attention. They are common in Finland and northern US. but not in my area. She was in for a breeding test. Since there are no good males nearby, she will not have the pleasure of a personal encounter, if you get my drift.
8:09 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Cindy Abbot has only 37 more miles to complete. Whar a feat .
8:22 pm on March 22nd, 2015
River has the biggest bestest smile!
Go Cindy!
8:29 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Dawson, like your description of River’s biggest bestest smile! Very descriptive.
8:41 pm on March 22nd, 2015
We are back. I, Mama Meash, had to stay home while Zeus and my Kat went to the dog park. I am told that Zeus had to stay outside the fence, playing ball with Pop, while Kat got to play with all the other dogs, including 2 Sibes who she met before. Now, what if one of those big GSs would have picked on her, and I was not there? I cannot believe my mom and pop took that chance. Well, so be it. I got my beauty rest. HRMPH
I love the pictures of Jace and River. If anyone is in need of a babysitter, I come highly recommended.
Go Cindy!!!!
8:41 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Barb&M&L, we can’t believe you actually met a REAL Karillean Bear Dog!They are rare and special. Very serious dogs. Not at all goofy like a newfie!
8:44 pm on March 22nd, 2015
And speaking of goofy Newfies, Sammy the Sh*t, do not swipe other trash items and get better very soon. You are in our pawrayers.
8:56 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Barb, you tell me…
8:57 pm on March 22nd, 2015
i would say yes.
9:03 pm on March 22nd, 2015
This is a beautiful video that BooBear and her mom found.
https://youtu.be/fdSVp9GFeS4
9:05 pm on March 22nd, 2015
OMD! We agree Wolfie. And can we say this, or will we get sensored? Those guns look rather phallic and dangerous! She needs to GROW UP!
9:07 pm on March 22nd, 2015
And Jace’s Mom doesn’t want him out barefoot?
9:11 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Kat!….Why is Kat’s photo beside that gun-photo? ….grunt!
9:12 pm on March 22nd, 2015
River!….snorkel!…Uncle Rio here…Your Dawg-Uncle!…snuffle!
9:13 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Who is that, Wolfie? Is that little Jace’s mom? I would lock her up, far away from Jace! Oh yes I would.
The banquet is happening now.
9:13 pm on March 22nd, 2015
I know, barefooted could be really dangerous, right?
Rio, I think that means Howlers are friends of Wolfie on FB.
9:15 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Facebookie!….Bah!…What a load of…pug-shit…grunt!…Banquet?? I wonder what they are eating tonight?..sniff!sniff!….Hopefully not Moose-Head Stew….gah!
9:15 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Good question. Why is my Kat’s picture there, next to those guns?
9:17 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Karelina Bear Dog…What a Beauty.
Loved the BooBear’s Nature Video.
Wolfie: What can we say. Maybe she’ll Grow Out o
9:22 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Barb, I am a cashier now. These 8 hour days are rough because I may have a torn rotator cuff in my right shoulder. Too many people buying large boxes of sodas and beer. I am headed off to bed so I can start over at 7:30 a.m. Yippee.
Nightly noodles, y’all. Go Cindy!
9:23 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Hurry, Cindy, the banquet is beginning!
9:28 pm on March 22nd, 2015
ML!….Take care of your cufflings!…snort!…No job is worth your health going to hell…grunt!…This is why my friend is seriously considering quitting and getting a part-time job she actually enjoys…sniff!…Easier dreamed of than to actually make happen…wuffle!
9:29 pm on March 22nd, 2015
5 miles to Safety…25 to Nome.
9:36 pm on March 22nd, 2015
It is snowing now. It was supposed to start about 11:00 a.m but it didn’t start until 5 p.m. Looks like it might go all night. Winter again. We have had so little snow here that I am sure everyone has forgotten how to drive in it.
9:38 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Cindy Abbott won’t be there for the Feast Tonight.
But Our Hope is, that when she passes Under the Burled Arch, all 65 Mushers will come out to Give Her a Big Victory Cheer.
9:40 pm on March 22nd, 2015
AS the banquet begins in Nome, Cindy Abbott is 25 miles out of Nome. We hope to DOG that someone is ther to meet her in the chute and extinguish the Red Lantern and present her with hers!
9:45 pm on March 22nd, 2015
ML, if you have a torn rotator cuff, or rotator cuff pains, you have to let them know. When Sam’s girl started at Wegmans as a cashier, she had back pains. They moved her right away. The store doesn’t want any health work claims!
9:47 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Staff: They may have Forgotten How to Drive in it but, you can be certain, many of the Poorest Drivers in the city will be out in it, picking up forgotten items from the store.
It Never Fails.
Hounds: Oh, yee of Little Faith.
9:54 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Bear!…Now that would be an awesome event worthy of The Insnider reporting on…snort!snort!…Every finished Musher welcoming her in to the finish!….zow!Pow!
9:56 pm on March 22nd, 2015
BSD, she has just worked so hard and is now socially tardy. But what an accomplishment! If it weren’t so freaking cold, mom would loved to have done it.
9:59 pm on March 22nd, 2015
She is in Safety, only 22 miles out! Maybe only 2.7 hours.
10:02 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Macy’s Mom, Is the injury from the new job? That is a painful injury!
Night all.
10:09 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Go Cindy!
10:15 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Riõ: It could happen.
This morning Dallas Seavey came out to have his picture taken with Cindy Gallea in front of the burled arch.
10:30 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Masquers, Lordy, we must live in the age of miracles!
10:32 pm on March 22nd, 2015
ML, be careful, you only hace 2 shoulders and sleeping can be awkward, too.
10:34 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Oh, no! Not the dreaded 101. Oh, well. someone has to be it!
10:46 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Yeah! We have finally caught up on all the posts! Wish we had another day in this weekend. Mom never seems to be ready for Monday.
She got alot done this weekend but still has a big claim to the supplemental cancer insurance to complete and submit. That was on her must do list that didn’t get done.
So proud of Snowhook! Need to find Phillip’s website to find our what happened with his race.
10:57 pm on March 22nd, 2015
BooBear!…Waste of yer time…He is a waste of time and money in my opinion…grunt! …MY OPINION.
11:00 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Nome, AK Weather.
17 degrees at 7 PM
Partly Cloudy
Winds WNW 1 mph
WeatherKat
11:06 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Awards!…None…sniff!…I would have thought something would come AJ and the Teams way…but I guess not “yet”…snuff!….Goodnight!
11:34 pm on March 22nd, 2015
Aw carp. We were really hoping.
Hey…ITC….ppppttttthhhhbbbbtttttttt!
12:30 am on March 23rd, 2015
For Dog’s Sake! They are Taking Everything Down! Couldn’t Have Waited 1 More Hour??
One of them asked, “Isn’t there anymore Red Lantern?” The dismissive reply was, “No, still out”.
This had better be a foe paw or there are going to be some pants legs grabbed!
GROWL.
12:43 am on March 23rd, 2015
Almost forgot. Thank you so much, C.Hobbit, for the wonderful packet from the Iditarod. You are so thoughtful. Mom can’t wait until she can visit the Hobbit Hotel in person.
12:49 am on March 23rd, 2015
No worries.
Iditarod Trail Committee
1 hr ago
It was just announced that Cindy Abbott was in and out of Safety. She’s headed to Nome, fans. She’s headed to Nome. Let’s give her a huge shout out of support. This is her 3rd attempt at finishing this race. Mush on, Cindy! MUSH ON! We’re at the banquet, but a few folks are at the arch waiting for you!
12:28 pm on October 30th, 2015
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