New puppies and a own cabin!

Now it is definitely time to write again. Again, quite a lot has happened since I wrote the last time. The latest and most important new is that we finally are owner of our own cabin with a dog yard in Bolterdalen. Even if we lived in it the whole last year, it feels really good to call it our own now. It´s the red one on the picture and our part of the dog-yard (on the right hand side of the cabin) is more or less covered with snow - still. So our next project is to move the dog-yard a bit and change the fence-type, so we hopefully can use it the whole coming winter.

To celebrate, we bought 3 new dogs :0). 2 Puppies and 1 adult female, that we hopefully can use for breeding next year. Seems we kind of on the way to fill up the new dog yard. While I was on the mainland, Rasmus sister got married. It was a very nice celebration with a party on friday on the their parents farm and a more fancy ceremony and dinner - followed by another party of course - the day after. This way we also had a chance to see all relatives this summer, which we otherwise wouldn´t manage. Summer is normally the time for Rasmus family to spent time at the cabin/cabins in Hvasser, where we had our wedding last year. There, big parts of the family meet each year. This year we will not have time to join, since we gonna be busy up here, building dog-houses and repairing the dog-yard from winter damage. So it is lovely to meet everybody now - even if it just was a short weekend. Besides helping to prepare for the wedding, we had time to pick up our new dogs, take some small walks and enjoy the summer - especially I extremely appreciated some warm days warm enough to jump in the river that passes by the farm. Even our pups and Tøtta (renamed from Comkom) went swimming with us.

What else happened since february? Rasmus was up here relatively often and we had a wonderful time around easter, first beeing on a trip with friends and later having first parts of mine and then Rasmus family visiting. It was very satisfying to be on a trip for several days with our own dogs! Our own team! The distances we covered each day weren´t any to brag about, but that didn´t matter. All that mattered was being out with them and being together and with friends.

End of april, I spent 8 days on a research vessel again with AB330. This time not as a student, but helping-teacher. It was a good cruise and I really enjoyed the time working so closely together with others from our department and the students. I´m extremely bad to keep myself motivated when I´m working alone, but working together with and for others is completely different. It is fun! And inspiring.