Your question to an outside kennel, it will need to be tough. A GSD can chew almost anything , I think Canberra weather is way too cold to have Manny as an outside dog. Buy a extra large crate and keep him inside. Crate train your pup, they will learn to toilet train quicker there is a lot of info out there to google. GSD's need to be part of the family or there can be behavioural issues. Are you renting? is this the reason for the kennel outside?

When my husband had surgery on his hand he had to have his hand strapped to a 'half-cast' to immobilise it and it got very stinky.......so my sister-in-law sprinkled about a dozen drops of nil-odour into it. Big mistake!!!! One drop would have been fine, but too much nil-odour stunk worse than the pongy cast. I slept in the spare room......but poor hubby couldn't get his nose far enough away from it. Sister-in-law lost her nil-odour privileges :)

Hi suancol, both domes have operable skylights. They look circular from directly below. (See photo) but have an angled square skylight sitting on an angled plinth above. These skylights provide shifting daylight and moonlight, acting like evocative internal sundials. They are part of the cooling system too. On stinking hot days, the windscoop funnels any prevailing wind from the outside, down into the main dome, through a small interior window. (To the right of the door in the photo below) This cools the dome as the same air is then drawn up and out through the skylight. We also have three double glazed windows in both domes - as many as we could have before the structural integrity and strength of the lancet arches would have been lessened. The geometries are why the 40 domes in one Nepalese orphanage withstood the quake this week. These windows provide plenty of daylight. Sometimes these domes can be very cave like. We wanted to push the limit. Today, we hung the windows! A big day. We're working with a local young designer to commission the door and work bench. I wouldn't mind the door having a cut away hatch opening, to further enhance light and ventilation. A bit of a quirky gothic touch. Bristow Architecture, we are toying with the sconce-type you suggest for an outside light in the entrance vault. My love of earthen architectures came from solo backpacking in Morrocco. My favourite place in all the world is Imlil, in the High Atlas Mountains. So we're also toying with a lamps from chained pulleys for the main dome - Moroccan? or would that be too much and detract from the cathedral lift of the space. We have one extra light outlet above the door. We'll reserve that one for one upwards directional light to highlight the lift. Jdublya, I like your suggestion. It might suit for the smaller, second half-dome. The whole sweep will have a work bench. Morning light through those windows is petalled and sweet. But we do different lighting again. Something like this could work. Thanks all. This is such fun. So much to play with.

Ask the kids to 'Trick' when they come to your door. So many of them will look at you blankly. It is meant to be 'Trick or Treat' and the kid is supposed to do a dance or a joke if you say 'Trick' They aren't supposed to stand there when you answer the door and have a look on their faces that says, 'Gimme all your lollies coz I am here right now.' Unfortunately too many kids see it as a free for all get as much sugar in a bag and see who has the most. Sheesh. What is the world coming too when a tradition started a loooong way back has turned into commercialism and greed. I am the same with Christmas too, so not just a Grinch with Halloween!