[Photos taken 17 – 23 August 2024, posted online 18 November 2024. The world has frozen over.]
We celebrated Finnur’s dad’s birthday as is customary. How time flies! I tried hiking around our extended backyard to test my sore heel, and deemed it not fit for purpose.
The rest of the week passed doing odd jobs, and ended with yet another volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula.
Saturday 17 August 2024
Nine squared!
Unusually, we were the first to arrive!
The flag being raised.
Birthday boy getting a present!
Everyone deep in tought.
Finnur’s parents by the table.
Moments before the hoards descended upon the food.
Pretty flowers.
Finnur also got a present, as his birthday was a few weeks prior.
Dinner that evening.
Sunday 18 August 2024
It was a day of odd-jobs. First up was cleaning the car.
Then I replaced Anna’s black-out curtains. The old ones were spring loaded, torn, and nigh-impossible to raise any more. Now she has blinds with a regular band, she’s not a fan, but I am.
Third was to finally start finishing the replacement of the electrical-outlet covers. A few had evaded me when I went on a rampage some two years back, hidden behind furniture.
No longer brown!
A friend asked me if I wanted to sign up for a hiking group, so I went out on a test-“hike” in our extended backyard, in my proper hiking boots.
Soon that whole far-hill will be covered with houses.
Walking went better than expected, going uphill anyway. The underside of my heel was still sore and quite unhappy on the way down. I decided that signing up for the hiking group would be courting disaster.
Looking over the cemetary. You can see the building zone on the far-top-left.
I decided to walk along the building area on the hill that’s “under construction”.
Stored stuff.
Roads being born.
This was at 21:10 in the evening. Evenings start getting darker in August.
The flower’s I’d planted earlier in summer were still doing ok.
Monday 19 August 2024
Next on the odd-jobs list was staining the garbage bin shed, and adjoining deck, that we’d built the prior fall. The weather had been so tumultuous that I’d never found enough dry days in a row to get going, but finally it looked like we’d get a few days of dryness in a row!
Getting closer to the paint-shop. This site used to have industrial buildings, that have now been torn down, and residential apartment blocks/flats are rising instead.
Not an exact match, but I took the lowest color on the left.
The vertical surfaces needed to be primed, but not the deck.
The view from the gym’s parking structure at shortly before 6 in the afternoon.
It was a blustery day, but at least it stayed dry!
Tuesday 20 August 2024
Priming the garbage bin shed with some clear material.
Starting on the deck, where the shade was forming.
At 19:30 most of the deck was done, getting the sides of the deck-planks took forever.
By 22 I’d run out of light, but at least the deck was finished, and one side of the shed.
Kids invading the bed!
Wednesday 21 August 2024
Yay, new fruit box!
Anna showing off how she takes notes on her fancy new iPad.
Thursday 22 August 2024
Broccoli plants doing well in their box.
Design-weakness revealed, as the tops of the boxes had torn in some fun weather.
Went to the mall, with a discount code, and found these silly signs. “Clara thinks she is unusually light on her feet after doing yoga in the garden with a mattress and tower under her arm.”
“One spring-evening in Copenhagen the sisters, Anna and Clara, saw a dog showing off his tricks.”
Emma had clothes that fit her again.
Anna made a bean-salad for dinner!
It looks like I went swimming?
Bjarki arriving from a pokemon go/store run drive.
Friday 23 August 2024
Emma’s school started up again, and the kids showed up to get their schedules and see which classrooms they’d be in.
It was still happily sprouting a few hours later… and the crack was only getting bigger. This one was located to the north of the previous eruptions, but on the same crack.
