August Becomes September
[Photos taken on 20 August – 5 September 2017, posted 10 May 2018. The erratic May snow/hail/wind weather lasted for a whole week, but now we’re back to spring. Yay!]
August brought with it birthday parties, the start of the school year, lovely calm weather, walks, and football (soccer)! Life went on, and started settling down into the schedule that would extend through the winter. (55 images total)
Sunday 20 August 2017
The weather played nice, while Anna and I played Pokemon Go… Some raid or other brought us to a church in Garðabær! Then we had to wait for others to arrive.
Images From The Past
[Photos of photos taken on 19 August 2017, posted 05 May 2018. It’s still snowing.]
The front room downstairs still needed some attention after the big bedroom-swap, so I attacked the piles of stuff on the bed. Of course I soon feel into nostalgia land, with old class and graduation photos, and some other random darling things! (16 images total)
Saturday 19 Saturday 2018
Found among the piles of paperwork were old class photos. This is my 12 year old class.
Birthday, Fancy New Work Space, and Evening Walk
[Photos taken on 17 – 18 August 2017, posted 03 May 2018. After a spring-like April, May’s begun with three days of intermittent snow and hail.]
A few photos from Finnur’s dad’s birthday, a couple of snapshots from my newly renovated workplace, as well as from a late evening walk in gorgeous weather. (15 images total)
Thursday 17 August 2017
It was a gorgeous day for celebrating Finnur’s dad’s birthday!
A Tale of Two Projects
[Photos taken on 31 July – 13 August 2017, posted 06 April 2018. Big fire next to Marel yesterday, no casualties. Pretty crazy stuff. 14 April 2018. This post turned into a bigger monster than I anticipated.]
The remainder of our summer vacation was spent with Finnur and I fulfilling our stereotypical roles to the max.
He took off for the summer house by Laugarvatn to build an extension to the deck behind the house (very manly!) while I stayed at home, stained the deck, tidied, and totally overhauled three rooms which were in dire need of help (very womanly!).
To make it possible to get any work done on both ends, Finnur first took Emma with him for a few nights, then swapped kids and took Bjarki for a few nights. His parents and a rotating gang of his siblings and their significant others also came through, so it was a whole team effort.
On our side, I sort of recall Bjarki also having a sleepover or two with some friends of his during this time, so it was just me and Anna for a couple of nights, which was admittedly weird! (120 images total !!!!!!!!!)
Monday 31 July 2017
As is often the case at the end of July, the weather was gorgeous for a few days, so I finally managed to stain our deck. Complicating matters a bit was a beehive that had formed under the deck close to the house, which was scary to stain on top of, but neither myself, nor the bees were harmed during the staining.