Hi Y'all,
To my squealing delight yesterday's mail brought Northern Light Media's new video, Appetite & Attitude. I couldn't get it opened and into the DVD player fast enough. I watched it straight through, then microwaved some dinner and watched it again.
For die hard Lance fans, like myself, its mesmerizing. Its like having a long, fireside conversation with him. Its almost like being there in person. Prehaps its even better, because there are no distractions. He is amazingly candid and open. He offers up insights about the sport that few of us would imagine. He tells us a lot about his own thinking and how he processes observations of dog and musher behaviors.
He gives us the history of mushing in his family, his dad's early endeavors with dogs and how he built his teams. Lance talks about how he and Tonya started their lives together on a beach in the Kenai Peninsula and how the dogs returned to his life. He talks about the cancer and the long term effects of the treatment. This video allows us unprecedented access into Lance's life, intimate, hilarious, heartfelt, determined, and truely dogged.
This is not a critical review. This is South-Paw Sarida telling all those Lance Mackey fans on the list to go as quickly as you can to Northern Light Media's site and order this video!
Thank you Donna, Helen, Teresa and everyone involved in the production of this work. I will be living in anticipation until part 2. I hope in the next video we will get to see more of the dogs and watch that Mackey Magic with them.
Now, onto the All Alaska Sweepstakes.......
South-Paw Sarida