{"id":36074,"date":"2023-06-10T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=36074"},"modified":"2024-03-14T14:57:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T14:57:41","slug":"mowing-time-birthday-time-biking-time-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/mowing-time-birthday-time-biking-time-ducks\/","title":{"rendered":"Mowing-time, Birthday-time, Biking-time & Ducks!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[Photos taken 10 – 15 June 2023, posted online 14 March 2024, from a cafe in Brussels that has a smoke detector that is almost out of battery. Peep!!<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upon returning home from California, the grass had grown to time-to-mow-length, there was a birthday, more work to do in the garden, bread-baking, insensibly fed ducks, purchased kayaks, and e-biking along the rocky coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday 10 June 2023<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Time to cut some grass!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Post cutting, pre-bagging. That area next to the house has bugged me forever, we never seem to get a handle on what and how it should “be”, so it mostly just stays in limbo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Flower-planting time!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Such a hard life!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Later that afternoon we headed to a birthday party in the west end of town.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Yum!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Getting so big!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Standing!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Proud planter and waterer of grass-seeds! The apartment was about to be sold, and a little bit of grass beats no grass!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Meanwhile on the other side of the fence… <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The results of Anna’s hard work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Sunday 11 June 2023<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Lazy-lunch at a cafe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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At home, Anna was making “Sarah-bread”.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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We got a visitor! In retrospect, it was probably not due to anything good, as a lot of nature was being excavated further up the hill to make way for houses, in all likelihood destroying many nesting sites.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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We were worried there was something wrong with the bird, so we tried giving it some water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Breads coming along nicely.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The duck disappeared, only to reappear with its mate!?!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Before we really thought it through, we put some food-stuffs out… not realizing they were probably scouting the area for a nesting place…?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The birds finally went away, and Anna handed me a buttered piece of freshly baked bread, as I was outside weeding.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I do try to keep this public-facing portion semi-weed-free, but often fail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Ugh. Too much!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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We all cheered the fresh breads, which got cut into slices and frozen for future toasted goodness.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Monday 12 June 2023<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Bjarki’s summer “job school” started.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Monday gym! That’s 90 kg I think.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Making sweaty faces at the camera, in part to document the lush “old masters paintings” ad campaign the gym had going to celebrate it’s 25th anniversary.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The ducks came back, but we’d decided we wouldn’t add to the food.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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That evening I spotted this kayak at Costco… hmmm…tempting!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Tuesday 13 June 2023<\/h2>\n\n\n
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It was a gorgeous Tuesday, and I even spotted a guy out on a balcony sunbathing!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I met up with my e-bike group.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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We were biking not very far away from the eruption area on Reykjanesskagi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The Strava recording on the right, the Blue Lagoon and the then-not-deserted-but-is-now town of Grindav\u00edk on the left.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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We stopped on a ledge overlooking a …<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Big rock!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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It was a big rock with a door?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Yup, a door!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Quite lean-y…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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… also in the overhanging sense.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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With the rock thoroughly examined, we kept going.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Mounts (i.e. volcanic ridges) in the distance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A tire needed changing so we hung out by the vista spot for quite some time, and stared west.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I was there! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Moon-scape-y.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Looking east, where we were headed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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After a bit of a grassy and slightly muddy ride, we came to a lighthouse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Mud-proof!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Refreshments.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Aforementioned mud.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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We kept going…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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… but then had to wait a bit as another bike broke down.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Navigating tricky terrain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The grassy bits are the nicest bits, when the grass is dry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Looking back from where we came.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Sheep-sorting fences.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Sheep are navigated into a central area, there people look at sheep ears, and then drag the sheep to the correct fence according to their ear-mark.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Leaving the sorting place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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About to bike on asphalt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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We biked straight back towards the cars.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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We parked next to this cute little church.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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On the drive back, I stopped to check out the Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk <\/a>geothermal area.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Lots of steam, lots of colors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Looking up the hillside.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Looking down the hillside, the setting sun on a hill in the distance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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This area has had shakes-series that could be magma moving, but so far, it’s not been nearly as active as the Svartsengi\/Blue Lagoon area.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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It was chilly outside, and I didn’t have a warm jacket, so that was all the geothermal stuff I looked at that evening.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Thursday 15 June 2023<\/h2>\n\n\n
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We did indeed end up buying a couple of kayaks, so we also had to buy some water-shoes….<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Photos taken 10 – 15 June 2023, posted online 14 March 2024, from a cafe in Brussels that has a smoke detector that is almost out of battery. Peep!!<\/em>]<\/p>\n

Upon returning home from California, the grass had grown to time-to-mow-length, there was a birthday, more work to do in the garden, bread-baking, insensibly fed ducks, purchased kayaks, and e-biking along the rocky coast.<\/p>\n

Saturday 10 June 2023<\/h2>\n
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Time to cut some grass!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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