Dog-yard building - or something like holidays

Since 10 days Rasmus is up on Svalbard and we have started rebuilding the dog-yard. The first 2 days went mainly with driving materials, carrying materials and walking around the area and discussing what to do and how. The last part is still not entirely finished and we only decided on where to move the lower fence to and to tear down 2 cages. Until we are working on this we will keep on discussing the rest. We have until the 3rd, than the dog-yard needs to be usable again since we need to move our dogs there from out neighbours dog-yard. Since we have "holidays" we are not as productive and effective as we could be and everything takes a bit longer. So even if we usually work at least 8 hours with the dog-yard each day, we also spent time reading, talking, training dogs and simply enjoying live. We have not been on any trips yet, but we still hope we´ll finish in time to be able to at least go on a few day trips. We both enjoy working together on our new home and looking forward to see if everything will be working the way we hope during winter. We have the challenge that usually a big snow drift is building up inside the dog-yard during winter. With the changes we make we hope, we can avoid that the run-yard will disappear during winter from now on. Our tasks so far are: tearing down the old fence on the western side of the dog-yard (done) and building a new one several meter away and somewhat higher up using a wider mesh-size (in progress), tearing down 2 cages (done) and changing parts of the remaining cages so the wind can pass trough more easily (in progress and under discussion on how much needs to be changed), level the ground, building a bigger gate for a tractor to come in and extending the dog-yard towards the eastern side (under discussion). Oh yeah, we also need to build more dog houses. Tomorrow our pups will come up and we are looking extremely forward to finally get them here! Rasmus parent were taking care of them the last weeks and I can´t wait to see how much they have grown and how they are now! Tøtta (formerly Comkom) is adapting well to her new life with us and is already integrated in the pack. She is a quite problem-free lady and as long as the others don´t pick on her, she is kind and friendly to every other dog. Only Unna, our little dragon, does not like her. But she does not like any other female except her sister, so no big surprise really. Training-wise Tøtta needs to catch up with the rest. But she is so eager each time we go out, that we are sure this won´t take long and we see that she improves each training. Pictures are on the left.