{"id":41022,"date":"2024-09-22T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=41022"},"modified":"2024-12-16T12:23:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T12:23:20","slug":"fall-colors-river-walks-more-knitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/fall-colors-river-walks-more-knitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Colors \/ River Walks \/ More Knitting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[Photos taken 22 – 30 September 2024, posted online 16 December 2024. Woke up to about 5 cm \/ 2 inches of snow on the ground. It lightens up the city so I hope it sticks around!<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pretty shrubs in the back-yard were too tempting not to take photos of. More nature was found by a lovely path along the river close to the music school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Odd jobs were a-plenty, such as car cleaning, more garage-purging, veggie-box-area-clean-up, epic-failure of a shelf-hanging, studded-bike-tire time, drainage-unclogging, cozy-sweater-hunt, sub-closet-cleaning, and most evenings were spent happily knitting to stay away from doom-scrolling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, and we finally got our act together and went out on a date-night!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday 22 September 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Every time I take my macro lens out for a spin and take hand-held photos, I always regret not bringing the tripod along for that extra bit of sharpness. So these are just fun photos, and I know they’re not “up to standard”. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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The shrub in question.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I should probably put these through a sharpener and a de-noiser, but all I’ve done is play with brightness and contrast, because I’m lazy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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More hanging berries, as the sun was setting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Attempting to get in closer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Berry-bottom detail, in need of a tripod.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A remaining mostly-green branch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A pink flower.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The bird-table-house, not quite in use yet. That green-hanging-thing was moldy in the bottom, and I threw it out and replaced it with a new tube for the little birds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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These survived the winter and this “summer”, but just barely.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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These “stepmoms” (stj\u00fapur) lasted unusually long this summer “season”.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Anna’s salad that we mostly forgot to eat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Attempted to take a good photo of the flowering broccoli, but it didn’t go very well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Flowerless is easier.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Carrot plant from last year from above… <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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… and sideways.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A loop counting of the sweater I was knitting revealed two errors… one recent in the front, and another older in the back.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Entering the danger-zone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Sorted the rows into pairs, and sent a photo to a very experienced knitter to help me decipher the knits, to figure out how much I’d actually unraveled, and how to correctly plug the hole.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Monday 23 September 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n
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The view from the car wash.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Picking up pre-cooked chicken for a chicken-salad-dinner. There’s an ad screen next to the counter, with the most amazing descriptions in text. This one roughly translates to “crispy, thrilling cold”.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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All better now in the front, I left the back error as it was. It wasn’t worth going after.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Tuesday 24 September 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Chicken salad for lunch, which is unusual.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Bjarki vacuuming behind his bed in a fit of sudden cleaning energy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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During the tidying up of Bjarki’s room, this shelf was unearthed. It had spent a long time lounging on the floor as it didn’t fit where I originally thought it should go elsewhere in the house. I decided we’d spend 30 minutes fastening it to a wall…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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We chose a spot on the blue wall, marked where we’d drill two holes with the heavy drill, as this is a supporting wall, and the concrete is very very hard. The first hole was a beauty, but the second hole a disaster, as the drill hit something that just wouldn’t give…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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We tried two other locations, but Every. Single. Time one hole was a beauty, and the other stopped early, even when I pushed in with all my weight!!! I brought out the special-epoxy-mix to fill in the gaping holes we’d made in the beginning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The following day was pajama\/cozy sweater day at school, so we went to purchase something that fit the bill.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Next up was a walk while Emma went to her music lesson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The dam that makes the lake Elli\u00f0avatn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Found a very cozy looking house.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Small puddle, and the big road visible (and audible) in the distance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Walking along a sneaky path along the river.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Was a little worried seeing a couple of kids playing by the river, but they seemed to be careful.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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In the evening I rallied, filled in the holes with spackle and… <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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… hung the shelf on the non-support wall in about 15 minutes!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Wednesday 25 September 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Waiting for paint at a paint-shop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Of course you need to buy a chunk of paint even if you need just a smidgeon. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Back at the river, this time during music theory class.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Proof it was me!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Some colorful weeds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The cozy house again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I found the well-trodden path along the part of the river that’s closer to the dam.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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By the dam again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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It was a windier day than the day before.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Checking out the construction I’d seen some time ago, but it seemed to have ground to a halt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Another fancy house.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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When you’re too far away from the board and you can’t read it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Frost was predicted, so I put the studded tires under Bjarki’s bike.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Thursday 26 September 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n
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The predicted frost visible on a car that had been marked for removal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Friday 27 September 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n
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For a little while we thought this radiator had started leaking, but it turned out the floor drain was clogged, and flooding. That was an easy fix!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Photographing the pile of stuff next to the house. It was time to tidy up a bit!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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First up was the veggie-box area, which had gotten little love aside from the tops.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I cleared out the weeds, black plastic and large rocks, and put down an “earth-cloth”.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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We’d been keeping a pile of coarse sand for a long while, and I put it on the cloth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The cross completed. The remainder is more of a headache, and I might need more hands to move pieces of lawn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Unusually, there were a couple of blue buses waiting for something close to the gym.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Much better! At least partially so.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I’ve claimed the newer sofa in the evenings, and am driving Finnur loopy by playing (AI-generated?) music, usually from YouTube, often accompanied with AI generated imagery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Time to continue!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Saturday 28 September 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Laughing at AI-generated images on YouTube with very varied spellings for “coffee shop”…! There was “Cffee shp” and “offee shop”…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I went hunting for an item in the garage that I may or may not have already tossed out… but first I had to move the bikes to get to the shelves. Happily a family member accepted this bike that’s been hanging around unused for a long time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Date night!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I was there too!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Yum!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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More yum!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Selfie-time!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Walking up to the church so that Bjarki could pick us up in a parking lot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Such a great lighting job!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A growing sweater!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Sunday 29 September 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Emma has claimed that important Lego pieces were trapped under her shelves, so I brought out the drill, unfastened them and we swept under them. The Lego pieces were nowhere to be found…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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This comfy chair had served us well, but it was time to let it go.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Bike about to be transported to a new home.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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All done with the top-part, time to start on the lower tummy part.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Knitting math.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Back and front connected.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Sleeve-loops on hold.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Monday 30 September 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Sisters heading to school in the morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The wind had taken the pretty leaves off of the shrub. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Frosty leave edges.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Frozen ex-bloom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Frozen red leaf.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Red berry bottoms.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Bjarki getting an overhaul.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Taking a bike, that had not been used for a decade, to the repair shop to ask if it was worth repairing it. The answer was no, and so we let it go.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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More tummy knitted. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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[Photos taken 22 – 30 September 2024, posted online 16 December 2024. Woke up to about 5 cm \/ 2 inches of snow on the ground. It lightens up the city so I hope it sticks around!<\/em>]<\/p>\n

The pretty shrubs in the back-yard were too tempting not to take photos of. More nature was found by a lovely path along the river close to the music school. <\/p>\n

Odd jobs were a-plenty, such as car cleaning, more garage-purging, veggie-box-area-clean-up, epic-failure of a shelf-hanging, studded-bike-tire time, drainage-unclogging, cozy-sweater-hunt, sub-closet-cleaning, and most evenings were spent happily knitting to stay away from doom-scrolling. <\/p>\n

Oh, and we finally got our act together and went out on a date-night!<\/p>\n

Sunday 22 September 2024<\/h2>\n
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Every time I take my macro lens out for a spin and take hand-held photos, I always regret not bringing the tripod along for that extra bit of sharpness. So these are just fun photos, and I know they’re not “up to standard”. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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