Meeting Other People Post Wave #1

2020-05-08Friends, Us Standard

[Photos from 08 – 15 May 2020, posted online 08 November 2020. Biden has been announced as the next US president. Covid-19 seems on a decline in Iceland.]

For the first time since March, we made plans to meet other adults! Our friends Ragnar & Agnes came up to house #2, which was sort of a neutral ground, virus wise, as we hadn’t gone there since February. We topped the weekend off by attending a birthday PARTY.

Other than that, life just sort of muddled onwards with the usual spring-tasks, and weather that oscillated between muggy and bright. (45-ish images)

Friday 08 May 2020

Anna and Bjarki eating dinner on our way out of town. Finnur and Emma had already gone ahead to house #2 earlier in the day, but we’d lingered in town to pick up library books etc.
The trip didn’t start out very well, as the car flashed a low-tire-pressure alarm. When I went to fill up the tire, I found this lovely screw sticking out of it. What to do at 7 pm on a Friday?
Thankfully, the attendant at the gas station directed me to call the road assistance guy, who came by some 20 minutes later, and plugged up the hole. It was impressive!
By 8 pm we were on our way!
Anna was the driver!!
A mountain sticking up out of the ground.
Approaching house #2. The weather was gorgeous.
Anna’s first long-distance-drive completed!
Sunset at 10 pm.

Saturday 09 May 2020

The first task of the day was resurrecting the trampoline.
Anna, my main helper, being silly.
Setting up the safety net takes the longest by far.
Guests!! OTHER ADULTS!!! Oh, my eyes!
They brought home-made goods, yum!
It was a good day for hot-tubbing.
The men being manly.
Our guests brought their two canoes.
The ladies ready to go out on the lake.
We paddled and paddled. At some point we decided to turn back, and my jaw dropped slightly at the view. The photo doesn’t do it justice, it was gorgeous!
Back on solid ground an hour later.
Our route.
That lake is super long!
Evening snacking in progress.

Sunday 10 May 2020

Our friends had to leave relatively early. After they left I got a few spring-tasks done, such as trimming the shrubbery.
I also began weeding the walkway, which had been allowed to go natural for a while.
Later that afternoon, we then attended the first BIRTHDAY PARTY in many many weeks. The party was held in multiple parts so that non-related people weren’t mingling too much.

Monday 11 May 2020

It was a muggy day…
… made even more muggy by the fact that half a volcano was sitting on the outside of the windows, blocking the view.
The magnetic window-cleaning gadget came in handy, yet another year.

Wednesday 13 May 2020

Lovely Easter lilies lift the mood.
That day I participated as a panelist in a 3xlive event for my company. The only mike I had was this old one, that no longer had any legs.
Anna used Emma to practice make-up skills on.
Green times approaching!
Seasonal and weird things all around.
Above-fence weeding-victory declared loud and clear!

Thursday 14 May 2020

Although the authorities lifted restrictions, my workplace wasn’t in a hurry to ask people to come into the office, so I kept visiting cafes for a small change of scenery.
Proof it was me.
While at the cafe, Adda contacted me to offer a bread offering, as Halli had fallen head-first into sour-dough bread-making, and they had too much. Yay for us!
Emma turned herself into a cat with no help from anybody!
A selection of dresses in Emma’s cubby. Quite a few of these used to belong to Anna.
Anna claimed victory over a viral challenge.

Friday 15 May 2020

On a walk I noticed a food truck festival by our local swimming pool. Food trucks became all the rage during covid.
I kept clearing the outside of the lot of weeds. Finnur put down a weed-cloth a few years back, which makes this task easier than it was in the past.