Help around the house and meet the sled dogs in Älvdalen, Sweden

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  Beschreibung

  hi!
  Welcome to my profile. I am a woman at 52 years that live alone with my for now 18 dogs and a cat. Working real hard to give them a good life all year around, in summertime I do need to work alot extra in the oldercare to manage, eaven if my vision is to be able to do this with the dogs only. This life is really a lifestyle, and my own focus will be on the dogs and activitys with them.
  If you want to, i can show you a little of this with the sleddogs on our free-time, but your work will NOT include anything with the dogs, but of course you can borrow a dog for a hike on your free time or follow on my training with them for your joy and experience on the freetime.
  
  OBS!
  PROBABLY a litter is expected sometime in august - a bonus with puppycuddle then ;) (but not sure yet its to early to say)
  
  I search a workawayer for one project per step, of those listed down here, to help during spring and summer 2026 with;
  
  -MOST EMERGENCY: to get help to order upp all mess after getting home alot of stuff in my house and in the yard after emptying my parents cottage, and cleaning like fridge/owen/storage for food/windows. just order up and come back to "normal" order in a house (have had a big sorrow/almost depression last year and to now, after loosing both my dad, 2 dogs and a cat, so just lost the tempo for a while, need to catch up in the "everydayhouseholdstuff")
  want to go through and make piles of; get rid off to trash/giveaway/sell/keep, both stuff and clothes. need help with this and to clean room by room. <3
  
  other stuff to do by choice:
  - empty the doghouses from old straw and clean up, while I fix broken stuff.
  - toghether put up a fence against the road and build a gate (feels important before i loose a dog for the traffic)
  - washing off the dogtrailer outside and inside so it will be fresh again, and the same with the "dog-car"
  - painting a garage and/or the storagebuilding (first scratch off old paint, then paint with classic redcolor)
  - oiling and repairing the sleds for the winter.
  - splitting wood with a safe 2handgrip-machine
  
  (i have real good tools for all work, no hand-work, i have machines)
  if you are handy enough i also have a plan for building a terrace-floor outside the house.
  
  IF YOU ARE A SMOKER YOU CANT COME HERE- I AM ALLERGIC ALOT
  
  Im thinking you come here for at least a week or two and just focus on one project of the list at a time, not all at once.
  you must be able to be selfgoing and after instructions be able to fix alone , even if i am planning to work side by side with the workawayer. i often do, so the instructions goes right, and also i am quite handy so just need extra hands to hold/dig or clean etc.
  The day can be like:
  breakfast at 9, start the day at 10, 1hr lunchbrake around 12.30 and finish at 16.00. If you then want to learn about dogtraining you can follow me on my activities with them. You are also allowed to borrow a dog for a hike of course. (We do fix outside after weather, so if we see it will be a rainy day, we may do a longer day the day its good weather etc. ) if you want to do mon-friday we can plan for that. I like to make a plan on paper or whiteboard so both you and i know the plan for a couple of days in a time.
  
  we do the cooking together, for lunch we eat more simple dishes so we dont waist time for cooking. I alwas do big amount of food so we can eat it for several times in a row or freeze down for foodboxes another day. I dont do "fastfood" here its qualityfood and real stuff. Even sometimes like moose or so.

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  Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

  Kreative Heimwerkerprojekte

  Betreuung von Tieren

  Mithilfe auf einem Bauernhof

  Hausarbeiten

  Leichte Instandhaltungsarbeiten
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  Interessengebiete

  

  Nachhaltigkeit

  

  Haustiere

  

  Selbstentwicklung

  

  Film & Fernsehen

  

  Farmarbeit

  

  Kochen & Backen

  

  Tiere

  

  Outdoor-Aktivitäten

  

  Wandern

  

  Tanzen

  

  Gebirge

  

  Wintersport

  

  Natur

  

  Camping

  

  Erlebnissportarten
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  Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

  I can tell you about the dogs and about their packlife if you are interested so the right person will be able to learn alot from this. (normally i actually sell courses for new polardog owners with this, so its a big advantage)
  You also have a very apprechiated area around here with plenty of very unique places to visit and experience. Its also very close to the Norwegian border. This is an old area with very beautiful old-farms up in the hills/mountains, the special mountain-cows for instance. The bus goes up to the skiresortarea where you have nice hikingtrails etc.
  We also have a very uniqe nature around, with very nice fishingspots, wide mountains, lakes with canoing, and a big wilderness just around the corner. in the winter it is one of the biggest nordic ski-areas here and also starts to be quite big in summertime with biking, hiking, running etc
  
  It goes few buses here, so you do need to like to be offgrid kind of. But if you like hiking and fishing and nature, then its for you. if you are little driven, you can plan a tour for you and one dog, but it is up to you to fix that then. :)
  I will not be able to follow as a guide, but if you ask I show you the online info and maps for the areas around here . There is some open cottages in the forest nearby so you could for instance borrow a dog for a hike and go there for a overnightstay, you will need to have a sleepingbag then. :) its your own planning and your mind that is the limit only. :)
  
  If I go on a cultural event or visiting friends for bbq etc, you are of course welcome to follow and join as a fully familymember, I like to show that part of the life here. But I am also a really homesitter, I like to be at home just enjoying here.
  
  very welcome to contact me! but please read my info about all before. :)

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  Arbeit

  you do need to love dogs/animals, because here the dogs live side by side with me in the home, sofa and bed. They love if you want to go out on a hike with them or give them a massage and so on. it will always be dogs inside, outside loose, outside in the yard and dogyards. you do need to like dogs. REMEMBER - THIS IS A PACK OF DOGS, meaning that this is ALOT different than having one or two familydogs. you must be a person that can self take initiative, see what is need to be fixed or done. But as I also write in the description, you will not work with the dogs, thats my job. but as a treat and for your recreation of course u can take a dog or two for a hike or joggingtour ( i myself train alot and do the jogging with belt, harness on the dog, several times a week so if you want to join you are welcome - normally i take a fee towards guests /tourists for that but as a workawayer its a treat of course)
  
  At home we are only me and you so we do stuff toghether in the household, this will be as your home so its NOT a "hotelstay" with dinners automaticly served - those we plan and do together or I have easytowarm foodboxes for microwave for the lunch, so we dont need to spend time for cooking then. Exactly as if you had your own home you do the same . :)
  
  Be prepared there can be long days some of the days , other days not long - this because we work after the weathers, so if not raining, better to work and then when raining, more cool slow day or take a day in the forests. And if we plan and talk, other days you can use your day for hiking with a dog , relaxing or take a bus to the village for instance (45 km oneway, city Mora is about 80 km away with busstop just right outside here). You self decide alot - this means that you need to be driven enough to start do stuff yourself, and how you want to set up your days - you need to be selfgoing, but you have a chance to get a really nice days here. But its up to yourself to create your days. This is not for all people, because its not so social interactive with other persons only me and the dogs. Noone exept a old lady living nearby here.
  
  you who write to me needs to:
  
  - dont be scared of being dirty
  - be able to talk and be open , directly, and even if it feels uncomfortable for both you and me, but to be able to work this close togehter you must be able to talk and tell if something is not okay or if you want to do another plan forward for the days etc I am flexible as long as somenone tells and talk what you want and like.
  - like calm and nature life, this is really offside so no bigcitylife - we have 45 km to closest little bigger village.
  During summertime/autumn the freetime is to fishing, swimming, hiking and enjoy nature and the dogs. YOU WILL BE ALONE WITH ONLY DOGS and me... this is not for all people
  - MUST be fluent in english , so you can take instructions without stuff gets wrong or missunderstood and we can cooperate because we do most things toghether or side by side , this is important!
  - be selfdriven, be able to take fast good descisions yourself, be able to "think yourself" about creative solutions when something needs to be solved.
  - be able to plan - and see - be a independent thinker.
  
  we do live far away from stores and other stuff. there is a bus stop outside the house here, so you can take the bus for a day somewhere (after we have made a plan for the week of course, just so we know what the other wants). the bus goes like some times a day only. The closest store, small one, is 35 km from here, so prepare for forests and lakes only. So you do need to like to be alone with only dogs around, and like calmness in that sort of way. This is not for everyone. This place is really out in the forest, away from people, so its quite isolated in that way. Its not all people that can manage this, even if they think they manage to be alone alot.
  
  I also have a canoe, so if you want to , we could put it on my trailer and go out on the lake nearby one of the days, i am quite bad on doing those things my self so it would be really aweome if someone wanted to drag me out on that one of the nice day of free. :P
  
  i like to invite my neighbours (they hare 2-9km away) for a bbq gathering a saturday etc, and of course if you are here, it would be so nice if you wanted to join that. :) (earlier most of ppl has liked that)
  
  if you are under 25 it is not for you, you need to be older and have lifeexperience to be here at us.

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  Gesprochene Sprachen

  Englisch: Fließend
  Swedish: Fließend

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  Unterkunft

  I have a guestroom on the yard here (kind of guesthouse ) , that will be your place for the stay .(normally i rent this out to people)
  Shower inside my house but its maybe 5 meters between.
  the spaces we share toghether like toilet, kitchen, shower, we also clean togheter and its not counted in the workinghours, because this is normal fix for all people living toghether.

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  Was noch ...

  This is not a stay for everyone - we are long away from social interaction, but close to forest with bears, birds, mooses and nice fishingspots. Feel free to take a overnight hike or whatever, together with one of the dogs for example.
  close to nature of course. long away from the cities. And please really understand, this is not Disney-vision. far from. :)
  if u want to google i think "norra Dalarna" would show the area quite well

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  Etwas mehr Information

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    Internet Zugang

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    Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang

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    Wir besitzen Tiere

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    Wir sind Raucher

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    Familien möglich

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  Kann Digital Nomads unterbringen

  i have wifi unlimited (fiber)

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  Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans

  i have a smaller parkingspot, so it works really fine - sometime others come and park here as well for a small fee per night (but as workawayer of COURSE not any fees!!! obiusily)

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  Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal

  eine(n)

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  Meine Tiere/Haustiere

  18 sleddogs

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