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It’s starting to feel like winter outside, and now there’s time to focus intensively on the final stretch for the exhibition. The building is now insulated on the inside, but there’s still plenty left to do.

I continue reading and researching, but I also recently traveled abroad and took the opportunity to visit several museums. It’s always fun and educational to see how museums present and process material for exhibitions – which is usually just a small fraction of what’s "behind the scenes."

I submitted a grant application this fall, and I hope to receive a positive response. I’ve said before that without the grants I’ve already received, it wouldn’t have been possible to make all of this happen. Regardless of the outcome, the research work over the past two years has been incredibly interesting and educational. I was very pleased to see a post on Facebook the other day by a well-known Icelandic writer and storyteller about the history of the Icelandic sheepdog, where the primary source cited was a blog post from me here on this site about the origins of the Icelandic dog. This shows me that I’m doing something noteworthy here.

I plan to hold an open day during Advent to introduce the project and showcase the first visible museum artifacts to my local community.