Outside, Finally!

2019-05-01Us Standard

[Photos from 01 May to 11 May 2019, posted online 07 November 2019. It beginning to get dark outside well before dinner now. So far only a bit of occasional frost, but no snow on our corner of the country.]

May brought visits to the farm animal & family park, a walk or two, down-town date-night, various sports practices, parties with family and friends, lots of gardening, and no more studded tires!

Bjarki also had his spring guitar recital, the video from that is on the very bottom of the page. (40-ish images and 1 video total)

Wednesday 01 May 2019

If you squint you can see our adrenaline junkies, Bjarki and Emma, falling down!
Yup, it was a public holiday, and the family park had opened its rides ahead of schedule due to the nice weather!
I found that my Edinburgh-hat did well in the slight breeze.
I think the park went through a bunch of renovations in time for its 25th birthday this year. This area is usually a pond!
Emma found a big bike!
I was curious where the new very-fun-looking play-structure came from, turns out it’s this company: Spielart GmbH.
It looks like we stopped by at Finnur’s parents’ place!

Thursday 02 May 2019

Emma hanging out outside, working up the nerve to ask a new neighbor to play. I think this story had a happy ending.

Friday 03 May 2019

I always seem to get itchy feet when the sun starts shining high in the sky, so this lunch-time I went out for a walk.
The view was interesting as the fire-struck structure next to my workplace was being rebuilt.
The view from the lava-field walk-way.
Date-night survived another month, this time in downtown Reykjavik.
Our destination was the restaurant Rok inside this renovated old house.
We got cozy seats up on the second floor, thankfully away from the loud hubbub on the ground floor.
Yours truly failing spectacularly at duck-face. I need to work on my selfie-face!!

Saturday 04 May 2019

Saturday meant gymnastics practice for Emma.
Non-healthy lunch after all that healthy movement!
That evening we had dinner with friends. The most memorable moment of the night was a third girl, the same age as these two, forcefully singing Iceland’s Eurovision entry by Hatari: Hatrið mun sigra (Hate will prevail).

Sunday 05 May 2019

I got a new toy! Yup, that’s a battery-driven electrical tree-shearer!
After the shrubbery had been trimmed (a bit late, like usual), we headed over to a birthday party in my family.
Happy birthday singing in progress!
Trampolines are fun!

Monday 06 May 2019

Proof that I showed up at the gym. Sadly that doesn’t mean much more that just that.
Taking a photo is the quickest way to do a fridge inventory before heading out to the store.
As the weather kept playing nice, the weeds began multiplying, so I went on the attack.
Bjarki helping out with what is probably the earliest mowing of the grass ever!
Bringing the grass-bag to the mower. This was the summer I stopped using the mower-attached-bag, and just ‘combed’ the grass afterwards. It meant a lot less grass to get rid of!
Emma returning home from her friend at, ahemm, 9 pm! Long evenings put everything side-ways, time-wise.

Tuesday 07 May 2019

Tuesday meant soccer practice for Emma
After dinner I went out to try and de-weed a bit of the yard.

Wednesday 08 May 2019

Spring-time after-dinner jobs continued with exchanging the studded bike tires out for smooth summer ones.
Screen-shot of a video sent by Anna, as her’s and Bjarki’s school won this year’s Fitness Competition. The crowd went wild!

Thursday 09 May 2019

Everyone returning to work as a fire-alarm was announced to be a false-alarm.
Bike number two about to get summer tires. First: arty photos.
The sun level at 20:30 (8:30 pm). Kinda nuts.

Friday 10 May 2019

Photo from Bjarki’s friend, as they climbed Úlfarsfell. What a great view!

Saturday 11 May 2019

It was time for Bjarki’s spring guitar recital!
Getting ready with his instructor.
Bjarki playing the House of the Rising Sun.