Gosh, darn, I’m a month behind on posting photos! And I’ve been ‘not blogging’ because I’m always about to catch up with myself. But it keeps not happening. So, here’s a little entry that’s a little closer to ‘now’. The most recent excitement has of course been school resuming operations. This past Thursday was theRead more
[Written 26 August 2013]
Finnur walked Bjarki to school on his first school day. Emma came along, while Anna stayed home with a fever, and Hrefna was giving a radar lecture at the NordVulk Summer School.
Here are some photos from the day:
Bjarki and Emma, about to head off to school.
[Written 15 September 2013] This Sunday was the last day of Finnur’s summer vacation. I don’t remember if we did much of anything, but I apparently…Read more
[Written 15 September 2013. Getting closer to now…]
We recently got our jogging stroller back after sequentially lending it to two of my brothers for their bambinos.
I fondly remember picking the stroller out almost ten years ago (oh, how I agonized over handle bar height, brake-configurations, back-lowering mechanisms, etc…!) and Finnur’s old coworkers gave it to us at their babyshower.
Since then it’s served us excellently, with Bjarki using it from February 2008.
Well, now it’s Emma’s turn, and I thought it fitting that Anna be the one to take her out on her maiden stroller voyage (4 images total).
Emma in Anna’s old stroller, wearing Anna’s old fleece outfit.
[Written 15 September 2013] My littlest brother, Anthony, stayed in Iceland for a couple of weeks in August. We had him over a couple of times for dinner, but I was suffering from serious camera-burn-out so this is the only photo I got of him.Read more
[Written 15 September 2013. Late, I know.] Finnur spent most of this Wednesday helping Einar and Baddi with the big paving project. They managed to finish the project just in time for dinner.Read more
[Written 15 September 2013. Grrr.]
Our travel-partners, Guðrún and Snorri, headed back to the city around lunch on the Bank Holiday Monday to beat the traffic. Shortly after they’d left, we got a phone-call from Holla and Óli who told us they were close by, and asked if they could stop by for tea-time.
Not only did they stop by with materials to make American Pancakes (Holla is a kitchen goddess!) but we convinced them to chill and stay the night. Which they did. We even played Pandemic!
Lucky for all of us, the following day (Tuesday) was GORGEOUS. Here are some pics (10 total).
A lot of trees got planted around the summer house almost twenty years ago (Finnur and I had just gotten together, I still remember the tiny plants sticking out of the mud). Now these trees are BIG, and therefore cut down on the wind, but they also cut down on the view – except towards Mt. Hekla, seen here.
[Written 14 September 2013. Still more than a month behind. Grumble.]
Guðrún kindly brought her sewing machine to the summer house, and together we managed to turn one roll of black-out blinds into two blinds for the little guest-house where they were sleeping.
This project had been percolating in my brain for a few weeks (I’m such a sunlight-wuzz, and the guesthouse has always been curtain-less) so the fact we got it done was a huge relief. It was also pretty impressive in retrospect because I (the one supposedly directing this design project) was basically brainless due to lack of sleep, and Guðrún was under a serious cold attack, and should have been in bed with a hot cup of tea with lots of honey.
But somehow we pushed through, and then got a little bit of help from the men to actually install the curtains. (5 images total)
One box of black-out blinds for $20, check.
[Written 13 September 2013. Seriously.]
We decided to play tourists on this long-weekend Sunday, and go see Geysir (well, Strokkur) and Gullfoss (The Golden Waterfall).
We last went to see them in 2009 so it was high time for a revisit (There are 30-ish images total below.)
(Note: There are TWO photosphere images in this post (Geysir and Gullfoss), but you have to visit the actual post to see them.)
Strokkur the geyser calming down after erupting. It goes up every few minutes.
[Written 13 September 2013. Yes, I’m over a month behind. Deal with it.]
Icelanders like the word ‘laugar’. It means ‘pool’ or ‘bath’, usually of the natural kind and geothermally heated. Laugardagur is Saturday, and Laugarvatn is PoolWater. I guess one was supposed to bathe on Saturdays in the olden times?
Pool-thoughts aside, we spent a long weekend with Guðrún and Snorri and two of their kids at the summer house. First up was a lazy Saturday (5 images total):
Our kids, barely able to eat their breakfast because the morning kiddie TV shows were on.