Finally Guests again!

High-season summer, it is getting hot again...  

 

Our small team is complete again. Moritz came back from a holiday in good old Austria last night. And after a few days cooling down, we are back at hot, humid days again, best to survive is being on or nearby water! That's why Simone started out on Tuesday with our guest Stefan to a 3-day paddling trip on Lieksanjoki and Pankajärvi. The sunset on first evening was almost magic, we call it "tent with a view". But also those here in the base have nice sunsets, best seen from the raft nearby the beach sauna.

Very hot, humid and with a lot of mosquitos was also the recent working-day in our cabin Aittokoski. The grass had to be cut and more woodwork to be done. Now all the 2m long logs are cut and stored away. Enough for the coming 2 or 3 winters.

And besides kennel cleaning and much more, we managed also to build all the wooden elements for the renovation of the New Kennels. Just a few of them still need to be finished with net. But when no more U-nails are available in Lieksa, we have to wait for the next deliveries... Our guest Stefan was busy with building kennel-tables for the dogs; ready for the Aniit- and the Romeo-compartment. And the Lelu-pups got a big cleaning and straw exchange in their puppy-fence, what was very interesting for them, as then the doghouse's sidewall is taken away. They are getting very agile by now and run speedy up and down the ramp from the covered area to the puppy-garden and explore more and more their area.

Today we get 4 more German guests, soon also the first Swiss' and then followed by Austrians. We are very happy to finally have guests again and it feels like "back to normal" for a while. Cooking for guests, being out on tours, drive transfers, etc. And we hope of course, that the borders remain open for a longer while, giving us the possibility to have guests here for at least the 2nd half of summer.