Small Family Get-Together
2012-03-04Hrefna's family Standard
We summoned my mother, brothers, spouses and kids over for ‘coffee’ one leisurely Sunday afternoon. I made American Pancakes. They came out yummy! 🙂Read more
Out and About
2012-03-01Uncategorized Standard
For some reason I’m much less inclined to take pictures outdoors when there is little to no snow. So it would appear that it’s been snowing ALL winter, which isn’t entirely true, but none-the-less close. So here are a few more snowy pictures. Read more
Winter Takes Over – Again
2012-02-29Uncategorized Standard
Spring got punched in the gut on leap-year-day with a good snow-punch from Winter. It looked lovely! 🙂Read more
Friends from the North
2012-02-26Uncategorized Standard
Our good friends, Kata and Jói, swung into town this week (they live up north by Akureyri) with their girls, and we invited them all over for a Sunday Brunch. Being the lazy sods we are, brunch consisted of stuff from the bakery and various toppings, but it all seemed to go down well enough.Read more
Ash Wednesday
2012-02-22Uncategorized Standard
Ash Wednesday is kinda like Halloween in the US these days (it didn’t use to be). The kids dress up in costumes, and then visit shops during the day and sing for the staff to get candy. Knocking on people’s doors is uncommon though, and we certainly didn’t buy any candy. The day used toRead more
Reading
2012-02-22Uncategorized Standard
I don’t follow a whole lot of tv shows, but the ones I do, I obsess over. A lot. But now, all of my favorite tv shows are either on hiatus, or just entering production for the next season, meaning I’ll have no new episodes to devour until sometime in the fall. Which is aRead more
Boom-Day
2012-02-21Uncategorized Standard
I’m not too familiar with this whole ‘leading up to lent’-thing, but I do know that there are three ‘special’ days that precede it: 1) Cream-Puff Monday (aka Bolludagur), 2) Boom-Day (aka Sprengidagur), and 3) Ash Wednesday (aka Öskudagur). On Boom-Day (‘Explosion-Day’?, ‘Eat-Until-You-Burst-Day’?…) it is customary to eat salted meat in a bean-soup with veggiesRead more
The Backyard
2012-02-20Uncategorized Standard
I was working from home on Cream-Puff Day and decided to venture out into the backyard with my camera for a little while.
A redwing (thrush/þröstur) by our patio-bread.
A stone nestled in snow.
Cream-Puff Day Preparations
2012-02-19Uncategorized Standard
Somewhere in the past we Icelanders picked up the tradition of the Cream-Puff Day (Bolludagur), aka eating yummy ‘buns’ with cream and jam on the Monday before the start of lent (the Monday before Ash Wednesday). I’ve never made any buns myself, but this year I decided to give it a go, using a recipeRead more
University Day
2012-02-18Uncategorized Standard
Every February the local universities open up their doors for a Saturday afternoon to entice the current crop of junior-college seniors to apply this summer introduce all the different departments and ‘educational opportunities’. I was mildly involved in organizing the EE department’s involvement, as in I attended a meeting or two, and then asked the student organization to handle the rest – which they did with aplomb.
On the day itself I hiked on over with Anna, who’d just emerged from her weekly English school session. Here be pictures.
My office is in the white-ish building behind the wooden house on the left (that's for sale).