Still Indulging.

2009-02-02T18:57:00.002Z

Time is passing - as it should. I am getting f. f. (fat and flabby) and I do not like myself, but probably this is an universal problem (not liking oneself extremely much). I have started eating whole rice and beans and will not buy any more bread. I also started again my rope yoga, on the floor in my flat, I did take my ropes with me from home.

Today it has been snowing all day long, fat, nice round flakes and I have heard that the traffic around me is more or less down. I have not looked at it myself. Today the muse kissed me and I got a good spell on rewriting my assignment. Thus, work does go as it is expected to go and after a difficult first week I have settled well in again. I did knit me a nice cap (picture will follow very soon) and have read lots of books, both private and for study. I did buy this little gadget for my computer and it works beautifully, I spent one morning, when I woke up at half past 5 and ran my filmes through. Of course I do not find the most important one, or I took over it.
But I did pass all three of my autumn assignments and got A for two and B for one. I hate Bees!

2008-10-09T11:07:00.000Z

I am still alive but the doctor discribed me bedrest, so you will hear from me later

2008-03-12T22:40:00.002Z

Hi everybody! I found a new way into my blog, nice and much quicker.
Life is nice, the days get longer: daylight and action and some days we smell the promise of spring in the air. I am drinking detoxing tea, that should promise a good day tomorrow. No, nothing new happening, thanks to the spirit of the worlds, work, home, learning and the days fly by. Yes, I got my exercise bicycle up into the living room and did start and am going to keep on, training. Not today, though, no time. But I had a leisurely stroll around our mall, tried on a wonderful dress and had the nerve to go out without buying. I am going to travel late this spring, so I try to keep my money together. And next week there are eastern holidays which I look forward to! Then finally I will have time to fall into my books and read and study... Good night everybody! Oh, yes, yesterday I saw the movie the bucket list. Wonderfully played but a little empty at times. But I promise you: I will not start to live when I know I will die after some months... I started to live yesterday! And forgot my umbrella.

2008-03-02T20:02:00.001Z

At last: I feel like I outran my shadow once again. The house is reasonably clean, my learning is at a reasonable speed, my future decisions are in the (for now) right direction and I had a reasonable amount of sleep. Marinó was at home this weekend, he had a bad fall last week and his ankle is blue and swollen, not broken and he can step on it but had us (and him) laughing while he went around jumping on one foot.

Only the streets need cleaning, it is again, still? snowing and before I go to bed for the night I will have to find and “unsnow” my car for early tomorrow.

My grandchild number two has birthday today and is proudly 12 years old. Congratulations! Yes, time goes on. That probably is was time is for. We wouldn´t like it to stop, would we?

I still go to rope yoga twice a week and love it. And, now for the hopefully coming sumer, I will try to reduce my weight once again for some kilos, try to stay in some shape. And further, I booked my flight for one week in Germany in may, an amazingly early decision for me and by that I got cheap flights too and I am working at getting my papers together for a master course at the university of Birmingham, teaching childen with autism, to be taken by cyberspace. So, dear friends, I am well and very alive and hope it will stay such in the near and further future.

2008-02-12T16:42:00.001Z

Two days gone into my 60th year and – really, I don´t feel any different from the days before, yet: I am wiser, full of good intentions and full of energy to let them get true..
We made me a great party, the house was bursting full, I liked the food I prepared and never got a taste of the cakes my daughter and my friend brought and sit now in a very clean house full of flowers and good whishes. I got “gifts to give” and a part in the construction of a home for poor chidren in Pakistan. I got a beautifull and great food processor from my children and much more. I feel blessed by life. (no wonder with all the kids crawling around!)
I got lots of beautiful pictures, here are my favorite ones for today:

The "old" couple

Marinó is happy helping his mom

Our tree of life - may it grow!!

And there is a beautiful picture of me on Monika´s blog.
Have a nice day.

Life saves itself

2008-01-31T12:46:00.000Z

This has been one of THESE days... first, at work I did search for half an hour for the camera which I knew I had put some where. I found it in the end – yes, somewhere. When I was half an hour late to get out of work I didn´t find my car keys and haven´t found them yet. My hausband had to fetch me on his car and will drive me to work tomorrow and by hope and my angels these keys will popp up somewhere else. A new pair of keys will kost me a big lot and to make them function the car has to be at the garage.. how will I get there without a key to drive the car?? So, there is a small problem. But do not worry, we will solve it as we have solved life up to now. But, and here is the big question, what is the underlying message from above? Do stop driving the car and walk? Shit, it shall be minus 20 degree C tomorrow. Stop working at this place where keys get lost? Get yourself another car? I still hope that one of the kids went home with my keys today ... I will search all the pockets tomorrow. And, plus, now my net connection is dead. Go to bed and sleep, it is winter outside? No, the massage can´t be: take better care of your keys as they are lost already.

One day later: the connection is back and my keys too. This morning they were announced in the house next door, a kindergarden. So I went there, got them and drove proudly home again. The massage also became clear: had I had the car keys yesterday I would have used the car and would have had a terrible accident. So my angels took the keys away to save me.... Have a nice day. Sabine

2008-01-26T11:46:00.001Z

Yes, we have a lot of snow. And I am tackling my new camera and reorganizing my pictures, so you will see more in the near future.

sweet words:

2008-01-24T18:55:00.000Z

Lovely wind, please don´t blow my little nice red car (yes, that one) from the road! white snow, would you be so kind as to make way for my sweet little red car? glittering, beautiful ice, please don´t be so slippery: Angels, come and help me, I am stuck ???? Oh, nice driver, could you spend a moment to draw the little red car of an old lady onto the road again? Hallo grandchildren, Grandma has arrived!

2008-01-23T20:51:00.000Z

Just like to tell you that I am still well and alive and good by that. Of course there is always more than enough to do but I still check it only my house is dirty. I, myself, am rather clean and the clothes too. So thatá ok. As I know my mother is reading this blog I would like to ell her that I got a suprise for her (hihi, now she will not sleep the next nights!) Kerstin, Heike, Lisi. Mamma, Doug and who ever else reads me: my best regards around the world. Did I tell you that I passed all my examinations and satifying too?

2008-01-17T10:05:00.000Z

I hadn´t intended writing on the blog, it just popped up by itself. So, I take the invitation
The weather report: it has been snowing, you know this little white flakes, not so big, but when they come together over hoursThese tiny flakes make rather a big mass. It´s ok in town, only 40 cars banged together there but it hit the countryside worse and for the delight of the kids There was no way to go to school..the way had dissapeared under this white stuff. Me, on my little red car, drive my ways safely, of course.
Everything has started again, shool is in full swing and the university too plus rope Yoga tvice a week. The next week will see me redecorating my house. Have a nice day!

2008-01-08T11:27:00.000Z

I seem to be crazy for work and studying. Once again I was too early, now for the university. But on Thursday it will start for real ... and the reading lists have arrived...Why am I doing this without a gun pointed at me??? So next step is to get the books. But first I will rest a bit, I have not yet shaken off the holidays. Yes, and nice they were. Stayed with the kids and kidskids in the countryside over Christmas week and had a really nice, relaxing time. But cold it was and dark – wonderful, I didn´t have to excuse myself for staying in bed and read for hours. Oh yes, and a Happy New Year for everybody around. May the force be with you!

Some of my kids went abroad during the holidays and arrived home safely, no, not of course because we had a bad storm here and it wasn´t sure at all if people would make it home for new years eve as the flights were delayed or canceled. But – they did make it back to the icecube again.

As a main Christmas present I got a pink camera, for the one I lost in Rome.. what kind? No idea, but it is pink!! So look forwards for pictures!

Again at work

2007-11-07T16:51:00.000Z

Ok, first day at work again:
On monday morning I got up early, combed my hair, used make and lipstick, shortly, I made myself presentable. Did take care not to forget anything, including my lunch in my bag. I went early out of the house to be on time - and was on time. There was not one car in the parking place, the school was dark. Ok, still holidays. What else could I do but go home again?
But, today it was for real. And a nice, quiet day, not really needed, what did suit me very well for the time being. So, that's it.
Over the weekend I was in the countryside- 5 kids sick in their stomach, up and down. They didn´t even quarrel with one another. Happily I was only an onlooker and let my daughter clean up, the time I was not chatting away I spent reading for university. So, everything is under control.
After a bout of snow and frost it is warm again and raaaiiiining. Yesterday the father of the house climed up the stepls and cleaned the drains. Now again the water is flowing. So, have a nice evening.

2007-11-01T20:55:00.000Z

Already the warm summer is a distant memory: Outside the winter has gotten to us, storm after storm is howling around our house, the leaves are since long in the gutter and the birds have eaten the last red berries in the trees. Yesterday Monika pointed one bird out to me: small and fat, nearly incabable to lift in flight.

I am reading Willams James with fascination, for school, of course, not for fun. For fun I bought at the airport of London some books and am reading the first of it: “Thirteen Moons” from Charles Frazier who also wrote “Cold Mountain”.

So, that´s what I am doing since Rome, reading and writing esseys and listening to lectures. And next week I will start working again, so the sweet life will be over. But I will start easy to start with and see where it will carry me. I am trying to loose some

weight again, of course I did fatten in Italy, who couldn´t, but I take that easy too. Who but me has any interest in my weight, anyhow. I just don´t want to miss all my nice newly bought clothes, so there is some pressure.

I got a new keyboard as my sweet grown up daughter emptied a cup of coffee over my old one nad killed it and now I am all the time picking the wrong oh, how do you call it? Annoying.

Oh yes and did I tell you: my camera disappeared in Rome? So, sorry, no new pictures.

been in rome

2007-10-24T18:25:00.000Z

So, I have been in Rome, Italy, for 10 days. Of course it was absolute amazing. We did work through Rome on our feet. I don´t think you get a town unless your legs are hurting, so I wandered about, with my husband and alone, in sunshine and in the evening. At every corner you stumble over history: a fountain, a statue, a marble column or one of the uncountable fountains. You must walk through the narrow streets, smell the pasta cooking and go into one (or more) of the tiny delicatessen shops, filled to bursting with loads of cheese, and all sorts of smoked meat. Every street seems to have it´s own church, palazzo and little square. You can get lost on marble stairs and find yourself in a ruin two thousends years old, or drink a cappuccino at a little cafe where there is no place for a street left.

Then, of course you can visit the famous places, walk in the steps of Julius Caesar, visit the Pope in the Vatikan and sit in a church and listen to priests chanting. There is a church which bears my name, Basilika of Sabina in the Via Sabina, with an ingraved door 1700 years old and an ancient orange garden from where you have a view over the hills of Rome, in another church (st. Clements) you can go down centuries: one stairway down and you are in the year 1000, one further stair and you huddle with the first christians in tiny rooms, sit with them on ancient benches in narrow underground passages.

Further you can visit the museums, the Vatikan museum where you have to wait in a row of hundreds of visitors for at least one hour –if not longer-, the museum of the Capitolino and see the statues and paintings you have read about in books: paintings from Rafael, vases from the ancient greeks, the paintings from Michelangelo...

Yes, we did all this and much more and walked up and down the Spanish Steps where I bought a beautiful pair of shoes... and elsewhere, later a handbag and another one because I couldn´t decide which one I wanted more...

We walked over the bridge of angels and met monks in their middle age dresses with a backpack, talking in cellphones, school classes, settling on a piazza like a flock of birds.

And I did learn: the Pieta is not only a great and touching masterpiece from Michelangelo but the idea of Maria suffering her sons death, so you find pietas all around, a very beautiful fresco in “Trinita des Monti” church from a pupil of Michelangelo.

Yes, I am home again. But I can not let it go yet.

2007-10-12T00:57:00.000Z

Starting with our beautiful Iceland:

This is strange, I havn´t been in for such a long time and still found the way.
I have been feeling lousy the last month and was in no mood to continue the blog, sorry blog! I see that somebody has honoured me wis a long, long comment and I don´t know how to kick it out, can I do that?
The last month I haven´t beem working because of a nervous something (lemmons can been throuwn quite hard sometimes and I wasn´t quick enough to grip and and throw it back, but I still struggle to go again to university and that keeps me nicely occupied. So, after all husband and me decided to flee the country and make a trip to Rom and will be leaving tomorrow.
But, before I leave you a little picture for those who like them, and regards to everybody, Kerstin,Ulrike,Mamma,dough, Móa and Heike too. Don´t give up on me!
(otherwise Monika will come vikingstyle.)

I am still well and sometimes around

2007-08-05T23:31:00.000Z

It IS time for a new post. Here are some pictures I took last week and would like to share with you.This, of course is Iceland. I love the green colours in the evening.

Here is a view into a part of my garden.

I This is the þjórsá, view from our summerhouse about half past eleven, beginning of august.

6.5.

2007-05-06T20:38:00.000Z

I know, I have been away... We came brown, happy and relaxed fromPortugal and the first thing I did was lying down with a flu. Of course, this again is long ago. Time passes so quickly. How can one let time last longer? I find the solution: whrn you do something you hate, are deeply deprssed or are bored at life, time seams to crawl away slower than a snail. So, My advice: do things you hate, be depressed and your life will seem looong.
But sorry, I do not have time for jolly deeds like that, Days run along, in work, and sucessful by that and with family: a constant pleasure. Bt after three weeks there will be summerholidays and the days are planned ahead, so many things than I don´t have time for now: like painting and gardenwork and knitting...but I ramle. So, still well and alive. So this post doesn´t get too boring I have pictures from my mothser´s birthday I couln´t show before as my USB connection was down. So, here they are: the young birthday Lady:

14.4.

2007-04-14T18:48:00.000Z

The last day of our holydays, a small but exquisite birthday party and sunshine. Tomorrow it wil be clouds and rain again. To remember the south, look at some pictures of my mamma´s garden:

Friday, the 13th - our lucky day!

2007-04-13T19:54:00.000Z

Today we did a lot of driving, through narrow roads which meander round the Sintra mountains as the monks on their donkeys travelled centuries ago. You drive through lush woods where you could imagine meeting snowwhite and her seven dwarfs, you see the castle where the king and the prince on a white stallion were living. We even found the old gnarled house where the witch had her home.

When you look at drawings from two hundred years ago you see barren mountains with white rocks showing. All the trees had been cut down through the centuries gone, for ships for the seafaring portugese, for houses and fireplaces. The wood only has been restored some hundred years ago, by the king who had his sumer residence in this erea, by an english baron who collected plants all over the world and brought them together in a huge park.

My moter and me windowshopped along a street of antiques in Sintra, one was full of ancient ticking clocks, elsewhere we found knight armours, silver inkstands and bnoculars as the pirats used in the old days. Unfortunatly things were far too big for our handbags.

You can googel further picures of Sintra, Cascais and Estoril.

12.4.

2007-04-12T10:16:00.000Z

This is the shawl I filted and sew from wool and silk. The wool comes from Newseeland, I think. It is very soft and fluffy.

The other picture shows us eating near Cascais. And, the problem of choosing a restaurant for the birthday is solved: we will stay at home.

tuesday

2007-04-10T17:40:00.000Z

This new day found me in the sun, making my gymnastic. I try to do some everyday. In the afternoon we drove to look at two restaurants to go to on saturday for the birthday of my mother. That is a difficult problem to solve: one is in an old winecellar and possibly the better food, the other one is with a spectacular view of the sea. I suppose we will go to the later one.

Then we went shopping in the small village shop round the corner, beans for this evening and bread for tomorrow. This shop is tiny nad has everything you can whish for, is cheaper than the supermercado and is open nearly around the clock. Here you see my husban carrying some water bottles.

Beneath is the old market place where the old men will sit on the wall and discuss politics in the late afternoon.

still on holidays

2007-04-09T15:35:00.000Z

So, as you see, I really managed it, right password and all, even though I am on holiay. Finally the sun is shining and to proof it I am getting brown. We had a very nice lunch yesterday at a restaurant at the seaside, it was delicious and perfect for Eastern holidays. Two times I have been a companion to my husband at the golfcourse, just a walking one though. Otherwise I am extraodinary lazy, it´s nice but feels a bit strange. I have not even glimpsed into the book from work I was going to study during holidays, but I have done a little knitting :) So, a picture of my husband at Estoril Golf, Tee 11, fairway 10 in the background.

Here you see two young girls in my parents garden.

This icelandic shawl I knitted for my mother from fine Icelandic wool, following an old pattern bought at the museum.

in Portugal

2007-04-03T20:01:00.000Z

Yes, I am in Portugal. The plane came down - it always does - secure and healthy. My pink suitcase made the trip beautifully. It is not so warm and was a bit rainy, lucky me, so I could stay in bed and have finished rading the first book. In the meantime my mother cooks delicious meals for me. After two weeks of this I will roll out of the house. As the weather is colder than I anticipated lucky me had to go shopping and bought some warmer clothes. Today I went again to the sweet town of Sintra, walked through narrow, history loaded streets and bought a hundred years old doorknocker and boomerangs to bring home to grandchildren.
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2007-03-29T20:46:00.002Z

Strange: Time is ticking on. The last working day is finished, the last shopping has been done, the fridge is clean and I don´t have to be ashamed of my house. So little pinguin, don´t be afraid to come home. As I say: the house must be clean, if I should fall down of the sky nobody will be able to say I was a slump. Though, I didn´t clean the freezer- but people will have to live with that. So hopefully I will be in a warmer place tomorrow at this time, preferably with a glass of wine in my hand.
Oh, yes, the cake is in the freezer. And there is some bred and butter, milk and cheese in the fridge. And fiskibollur that should still bel alive.

2007-03-29T20:46:00.001Z

2007-03-28T22:26:00.000Z

I am packing my bag. No, I did pack it before yesterday, I am adding things. Never before have I looked so much forward for holidays. My suitcase, really. I got a beautiful pink pink black one. I saw pink and had to buy it. So, tomorrow the last working day, short and beautiful and then two weeks away. Let it blow and rain and snow in Iceland meanwhile, I will not care!
So, my dear ones, the next post will be from Lisboa. And, dear Monika, tehre will probably be no food in the house. I hope I remember tomorrow to empty your fridge, will put in on the list. Maybe the chokocake will live? Let me know!

Cleaning

2007-03-23T23:25:00.000Z

I thought I had a clean house, where does all this dirt come from?
Shining silver, crawling in cupboards, taking dust, dust, dust... It is late and I will keep it short tonight. Have to go to IKEA once again tomorrow morning to change a lamp.. but I got my cell phone with me dear mother, so when I get lost I can call the weather forecast.

IKEA

2007-03-21T22:32:00.000Z

Yesterday I boughta new table for our TV. Today I bought two sidetables, same kind. I had a little time left, so I decided to go to IKEA to byu one small item I knew I wouln´t get elsewhere. So, you come to IKEA, if you can, it is a huge building looming in the lavarocks and you think you couln´d miss it, but I did, the first time arriving in the dark. You have to pass a strange bridge, around two roundabouts and in the rain I missed the right street. So, today I arrived. It was storm and pouring rain and there is a huge parking place, but the near spots are reserved for people in wheel chairs-that I respect- and for families. So, as a single female I had to fight hundreds of meters through rain and storm. Finally inside, you have to go to the second floor to get to the first floor. That I did, over the one and only staircase you have to be clever to find- up, around a corner and down again-hurried through corners and sections and cupperware and got lost the first time, but arrived finally at the section I thought I needed. No, you get that on the second floor. So, ten minutes lost again on the first floor to find the one and only steps to the second floor. There I found rather quickly the department I needed, but didn´t find the item in question and had to wait about ten minutes more to find somebody to ask. We are so sorry, we will get it after 3 weeks. So, down again to the first floor: the one and only stairway at the other side of the huge house. So, now on the first floor I wanted to get out again, but had to go through the first floor once again in opposite direction, didn´t get lost this time, and after divers corners and sections and cupperware once again rather exhausted and with sore feet I... finally...found the way out and was ready to shoot the architect. In future I will avoid this, alas, they got some rather nice products but hopefully I will get on living without them.

2007-03-20T22:51:00.000Z

So much to do and to think of...
A new bathroom. Planning work (for workers). buying tiles (chose a long time ago), paying tiles.
Planning my first grandson´s konfirmation next sunday. (with help from is mother but it will be at our home, so.. if you know me you know what will happen: cleaning, changing). Bought a new table for our TV. Will buy new couch tables tomorrow - my favorite shop has a 50% discount. Planning the table decoration (with my daughter, of course) planning the finesse of a hot dinner on the table when the guests arrive. Going through my dishes and silverware.
Up over my head at work. Reorganizing our work. Got 4 great books over visuelle help for autistic children. So many great ideas we must make alive.
Working on my side, new exercises nearly daily,
Got my rope yoga routine up, three times a day now.
Making lists... making ists. Food lidts, shopping list, to buy lists. When will I paint the paint walls in my new bathroom? some tiles come up tomorrow. Must get a piper and an electrician. Some rusty wire for the table decoration. Saw some great flower that will siut our ruogh style planning. Bought and am washing garden cloth for decorating, they got a rather strong smell. What will I have for dinner tommorrow? I would like to finish knitting my new sweater (silk) before we go on holidays. My dress for the comfirmation hangs nice and ready. I did byu paint to paint boxes for school but I havn´t yet done it in two weeks. Should phone my sister, forgot her birthday last week (shame!!). Still have to pack present for gGrandhcild. Yes you will get a piv-cture of decoration and food" and maybe people too. There is a new story on my side: Baking. Very proud of my pupil. Icelandic side.as yet...learn some icelandic on the way.
Storms outside, our road to the countryside was closed once again because of blizzard. Driving in town is bad enough, heavy rain and storm. Tomorrow kids go riding again. Must not forget my overall and the new books to show. Oh, my schoolkey, forgot him three days in a row. Some morning I forget my teeth in the waterglass.
So, me go to bed, read a thriller forget the world and try sweets house delivered from the US.

upps, me?

2007-03-16T00:38:00.000Z

This picture was taken by one of my grandchildren from his view point. Now I understand the pictures they are drawing of me..
At least he got my face and not my belly. here is one of many reasons to go on your knees in front of children.

a spring stroll

2007-03-14T23:04:00.001Z

Today we had a riding lesson with our class for special kids. The kids love it. I love the icelandic spring. And it was sooo much fun!!

2007-03-10T11:06:00.000Z

Here I sit once again in front of my computer...
One night found me once again in the countryside where to I had been lazy to go the last month.But as soon as I arrived there my muscles relaxed, I got a wonderful salate for dinner, slept well, knitted, read and chatted. So that was very nice.
The trip there brought me into an unsuspected snowstorm, it loaded down in seconds. See the picture. (taken while driving, nice?)

I try to promote my new autistics homepage, google does not find me yet. Got any tips? Anyhow I did put it as a link in my blog now and put up counters .
Kerstin, I whish you all luck. When will you come and visit me?
I am looking forward to our stay in Lisboa over Eastern!

Finally!

2007-03-01T20:15:00.000Z

After writing names and adressen and passwords and.. and doing that again, like a stroll through the rainforest I finally found my blog again. Yes Dough, my haircut is still nice, but I am getting bored to look at my face and that drives me to write something more. Sorry, no new pics. Sorry, no new tales of my life either. I spend my days trying to teach a child to sit at a table, fight, fight fight, but now the time is down to three minutes instead for 20. To get him to sit. The next step will be to get him to work. It´s rather exhausting and tries on my patience. Sit sweety, sit on the chair. Here look: a picture. The boy sits at the table No, don´t sit under the table, sit at the table. SIT! Wrum, wrumm, look at the car - sit! SIT! and so on.
I´ve got a new homepage with exercises for children with autism or slow learners and there my computer work went instead of in the blog:
hamraskoli.is/serdeild/sabine
and it is just a start. The weather news: no snow, frost, no wind, but the sun is staying up longer and at noon it gets something like warm.

Today:

2007-02-11T23:27:00.000Z

got a new haircut and some color, had an easy, nice day.

2007-02-10T23:29:00.000Z

And then I thank for the congratulations I got!
And Kerstin, best luck!

and one year older...

2007-02-10T23:20:00.000Z

I only have a birthday once a year and look what a beautiful flower I got!

Once again and never too much (?) icelandic winter.

me: well and alive

2007-02-05T21:21:00.000Z

I just read a late blog entry: yes I have been lazy. I can´t say that now as I have been quite busy, but not on the blog. Sorry girls, haven´t even had time to take pics. The weather has been cold and warm, my clematis flower got a feel of spring and had its bulbs bursting but now it is snow again. The sun is crawling up on the sky and, as always in february peeks into my windows, got the rays up over the neighbours house. So, now I see, how dirty my windows are.
Been busy: to the countryside, working, Marino at home, visiting, talking to kids and grandkids.. living the life? I have worked rather a lot on the computer, so my “mouse arm” is tired. And, not least, I spent some time in the gym three times a week and get slimmer by the day (and my ass is getting quite round and lecker again).
Work has been difficult, bad vibes there but the children do fine. I am really quite proud of my work. Hopefully soon I will put some reading exercises I have done in power point on the net, still working and learning how to.
So, for today that´s it. Think warm thoughts to me, am in need of that. Hopefully I will chat some more in the near future. And pics too, when I got my camera back.
And yes, Jakobína gt a 6th place in a horse competition, out of about 40, meistaraflokk, so we are very proud. Have a nice evening.

2007-01-08T22:01:00.000Z

Me: in a hurry as aways, 20 mouths waiting to be fed on christmas day, so I tried to open the hole in the potatoebag with my fingers. After two days my thumb was dobblesize and the second time (the first time I felt so stupid going to the ER with a thumb! and turned back home half way there) so, in the evening I went again, waited for four hours and came home like that for ten days. The ten days are over and the thumb is nearly normal size again, fully useable and minimal hurting. There was a little bone splitting. So: USE SISSORS, not your fingers.!

7.01.07

2007-01-07T22:12:00.000Z

Life is irritating me these days, specially the computer. Everything I want to do doesn´t work. Like: using my new usd device. like: setting pp on the internet. like: the nonfunctioning connection in the countryside.
Other: the bandage is gone and I feel sooo much better for it. Now I learned to appriciate my right hand functioning. I don´t want to be a cry baby, but this got on my nerves!! Finally I can knit again!

But, whatever: I wish you all a long and happy NEW YEAR!

2006-12-28T01:18:00.000Z

mein rechter arm ist in gips - sehne am knochen eigerissen am daumen. also kein blog die naechsten tage.

2006-12-26T17:38:00.000Z

Liebe Heike und Kerstin! Ich brauche eure e-mail adresse. Und habt ihr power point? Ich möchte euch Bilder schicken. Gruesse Sabine
sabinem@hamraskoli.is

25.12

2006-12-25T17:07:00.000Z

So, two big days behind us and soo nice!

before starting:

Happy
The first present of the evening

This was the evening of the 24th, quiet and still.
More and chaos later

2006-12-24T16:14:00.000Z

Ich wuensche allen meinen Freunden, Familie und Lesern ein glueckseliges Weihnachtsfest!
I wish all my friends and readers a happy Christmas!
Ég óska öllum vinum, vandamönnum og lesendum gleðilegra Jóla!

Stille Nacht

And for those who want to know more:
This is was the evening will bring us.

23.12

2006-12-23T23:05:00.000Z

One more day gone. Between baking and packing in more gifts and cleaning once again and putting more decoration on the xmastree I went shopping, leisurely now, found two three books my husband will give me as a present: we each buy the books we want to read ourselves, been doing that for years and than we change books and pack them in nicely, so we get to read what we are curious about, but this year I bought a book with shortstories from Gogol for him which I am sure he will like and will be a surprise (why do I know his taste so much better than he knows mine?) Beause he reads the books I buy and I see what he picks. Because I am the bookwoman in the family. I buy the books (as said before) read them and away they go, either to Monika or my husband. The choice is mine and mostly good. Leisurely I bought this and that - stupid as I am I checked the homebank yesterday and saw that I had money left (!) - and so I had to do some more packing :). Tomorrow I have still one cake to bake, and to make part of the dinner for five. Monika will do the rest. And Marinó will come home at one. Five for dinner? Us couple and Marinó and Monika and Jón Valur and after the meal Eyrún will join us.
This day my father has birthday: Happy birthday dear father, borne 1920 and still fit and around, a long life with many hard times and changes.
Mamma: today Margrét got the fridge and is sooo happy about it. Jochen took it with him to town and Jón Valur helped to carry it up the stairs.

2006-12-23T00:13:00.000Z

The day begun with me as driver for Margrét and her cat who needed a shave. So first thing in the morning I drove them to the pet's hospital where we left the cat to fetch it again later in the evening and drove on to buy christmas lights. Home again, the christmas tree:
Waiting for things to come

and continued decorating the house.

Later Monika and me went shoppig. Shirts and a tie for Marinó, candles and lots of food:

21.12

2006-12-21T21:01:00.000Z

My cleaning day is finished and I got the ltittle handsewn xmas napkins on some tables, me and my husband made graflax together and it´s in the fridge, candles are ready to be lit and so on. Outside, as so often, the storm id blowing and hail is battering the windows, it shall get worse tomorrow. So comfortable to sit inside and listen to the weather! In Selfoss the river is running into the cellar of the cinema, the hotel and Nóatúnsbúðin but it should not get worse. A ship is stranded near Keflavík, two days ago already and they can do little but watch it falling to pieces from the shore beause of the storm. Of course they did already rescue the shippers.
And that really are the news. Tomorrow we will go shopping the food, I hope, that will be fun. The list is ready. How organized we are!

2006-12-20T21:25:00.000Z

Oh, I forgot, I wanted to show you the "before christmas bags "I made for the kids in sandhólaferja, there are toys and sweets and silly things in them

20.12

2006-12-20T20:53:00.000Z

We would like to change Iceland into waterland. The tempuratures have jumped up to eight, ten degrees C. and snow is melting, ice is melting and heavy rainstorms toement the land. So we got floods in the north and in the south. In selfoss the water is lapping at the river shores. To see more, click on mbl.is.
Today was my last working day until the third of next year. At school we danced around the christmas tree and sang, two jólasveinar (st, clauses) came and danced with us and is was all very nice and christmas nice. Then all the teachers of the school went out to eat at a cold buffet down town and I stuffed myself as I haven´t done for along time and will surely not do for a long time again. But somehow, with a wine glass and nice chattering around I forgot my limits. Monika was my driver and I rushed home and fell into bed, slept, forgot (!) my gym lesson and did without dinner.
Tommorrow I have scheduled to make the house christmas like, do the washing and engage in things like that. In the evening we will cut laufabrauð. Open house, come have a try and a glass of wine!
As for now I will finish knitting and watch tv, after that I will snuggle in bed and read this:
a story set in 1725, very readable and shows the philosophy and understanding of science at that time.
AND the picture of the day, south iceland on a cold and clear day. Eyjafjallajökull, a glacier, the view from my daughter´s kitchen window.

18.12

2006-12-18T23:27:00.000Z

Still from last weekend: this was adventukaffi at Marínós place with a christmastree from an icelandic forest in the background.

Today was a really long day, starting with a sceduled meeting in school for one pupil, not so hard with cookies and coffee but difficult for all the emotions flying around (not mine though), swimming lesson with the kids, nice but rainy and a really great course for better use of power point from one to five o´clock. I nearly slept in the rope yoga time (don´t tell the teacher) and so I wanted to go early to bed ... and can´t sleep. Now I had a beer, hope it will help. I worry too much, though I try hard not to.

17.12

2006-12-17T23:09:00.000Z

At about eleven o´clock on this beautifull country we drive east against the snrise (noon?) dawn through

a landscape of fire and ice.
(this we use for heating our houses and generating electricity)

arriving at the farm where even the stable is smiling in christmas mood

to the six's aniversary of grandchild no. 4.

and back again the next day, due west now into the pink sunset at three o´clock.
We went further, but this should be enough for one day. Anyhow, we had a swell time and a long weekend.

15.12

2006-12-15T10:18:00.000Z

Now I will go there:

And it will be just as cold. Today grandchild no. 4, living there, is six years old: what a remarkeble day! As so often, in a hurry, so have a nice time!

13.12

2006-12-13T20:53:00.000Z

Though I didn´t go to work today I was quite busy. First ting in the morning I was the driver for Julius and Margrét, the former had to go to the specialist because he hadn´t lost his cold for a too long time. As a roentgen picture showed he has an inflammation of his sinuses and got antibiotica. That all took a loong time. Then I had to to go to a heartspecialist as my latest EKG showed changes (I am overcharged?). After 20 minutes of bycicling I was told that I am fit as a fiddler. So, no excuses, on goes the life. While struggling with the bicycle we talked about Snorri Snorrason who had been this doctor's teacher. So that was that and then I spent two and a half hours in a shoppingmal, first having a coffee with a friend and then I looked for THE christmas outfit which I didn´t find but went home with some frilly blouse. AND bought a present for Monika (now she will search the house, hihihi). One hour at home and a visit of a grandchild and then ropeyoga and a steambath. top fit now. So, the christmas preparations are well on their way, a big envelope for my sister in Norway, a packet to portugal (I must rub it in and make this folks curious!) But no lights up yet :( and no time in view. Tomorrow it´s work again, but we will all go to an advent visit, so that will be nice and easy, hopefully. I am completely ready for the holidays. But who is not. See you

Once there was summer, long ago. Myself and me in June in Kopenhagen, on a boat, drinking beer...skál!

12.12

2006-12-12T21:50:00.000Z

Liebe Mutter, dies ist fuer dich... Jetzt, wo du so fleissig am Computer sitzt fuehle ich mich direkt verpflichtet auch immer schön zu schreiben.
Gestern dachte ich ich haette einen Arzttermin und hatte mir frei genommen in der Schule und stellte gestern abend um 11 fest dass das nun erst morgen, am Mittwoch ist. Es staunten auch alle als ich dann doch erschien. Also morgen. Dann geht die Schule in die Kirche, da muss ich dann gluecklicherweise nicht mit.
Ich sitzte im Wohnzimmer und packe Weihnachtsgeschenke ein, ich bin heute los gegangen und habe fuer fast alle gekauft. Dann taten mir aber meine Fuesse weh.

So und nun noch das taegliche photo:
My kitchen window:

10.12

2006-12-10T15:13:00.000Z

The book I read at the moment and really recommend:

9.12

2006-12-09T21:28:00.000Z

Going shopping in Reykjavík: Christmas is coming

8.12: aunti Móa

2006-12-08T09:44:00.000Z

A blogsite I love to visit and I am sure Lisi will find interesting, may I introduce:
AuntieMóa
of course decended from Iceland where all the good stuff comes from. Just click her name.

7.12. Tagged: weird

2006-12-07T17:00:00.000Z

7.12
I was tagged by my little pinguin minka. Six things “weird” about me.
I should tag others. But I know so few others. Those I blog with h don´t have a blog. So I just will brake the rues! But, read anyhow.

No. One:
I am curious and wanted to know what this cute little word meant, so I went into my big booky like dictionary and as I was too lazy to write I googled:

adj. weird·er, weird·est
1. Of, relating to, or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural.
2. Of a strikingly odd or unusual character; strange.
3. Archaic Of or relating to fate or the Fates.

Synonyms: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly
These adjectives refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature. Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, or merely the odd or unusual: "The person of the house gave a weird little laugh" Charles Dickens. "There is a weird power in a spoken word" Joseph Conrad.
Something eerie inspires fear or uneasiness and implies a sinister influence: "At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold" Robert Louis Stevenson.
Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly unsettling: "The queer stumps ... had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures" John Galsworthy.
Something unearthly seems so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: "He could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din" Henry Kingsley.
weird - suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley
eldritch, uncanny, unearthly
supernatural - not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material; "supernatural forces and occurrences and beings"

No. two:
I Love to learn so I also read all this stuff. Weird, isn´t it?

No. three:
I´ve got angels around me (wrote about them some time ago). Some people do lend them from me, but originally they are mine. They are fat, giggling putties, right in th upper right corner in my vision. Very helpful, funny and loveable. The only thing they ask from me is that I should talk to them and thank them on occasion. No, I am not shizophrenic.

No. four
I once went to a “seeer”: very usual in Iceland, you go there if you have big decisions to make. I for my part was just curious and ready to make fun of it. A “seeer” is somebody with a working line to the deceased. I didn´t make fun of it, I came out rather shocked and white. This man knew things about me even I had forgotten!

No. five
I got a knack for witchcraft, as in “talking to the weather” (yes, and making it change or keep, whatever I want) I got witnesses! Don´t laugh! Of course you only may use these powers for a real, big reason, not for fun.

No. six
And this is the weirdest: I am told to look extremely stupid when I think extremely clever thoughts.

where did this come from?

2006-12-06T21:37:00.000Z

Where the elves live : Elliðavatn

6.12.

2006-12-06T21:31:00.000Z

Blogger wil not allow me to get a picture? Still rather sick. Burbling in my lung. Go to work: get home, fall to sleep. wake up, eat, sleep some more. I think I am tired. The grandchildren went home again today, so my house is empty after 3 interesting weeks. Sorry, no pictures today is not my fault. Still, went to rope Yoga. Yust so.
good night.

2006-12-04T21:59:00.000Z

Pictures from Reykjavík in december and good weather

3.12

2006-12-03T22:11:00.000Z

I have a good excuse for not sending any pictures, I was some sick last week and slept through a few days. And as it is the first advent I spent yesterday baking.

Here are new pictures: strong women!

30.11.

2006-11-30T23:13:00.000Z

The street to þingvallavatn

2006-11-28T14:31:00.000Z

These horses here, they love their warm wintercoat!

2006-11-28T14:26:00.000Z

As you are not in or from Iceland I think I must explain my saturday pictures: Hveragerði is a place abput half an hour from Reykjavík. There is lots of thermal heat under it and in glasshouses they grow flowers and tomatoes and some bananas for the tourists. Behind the house where a freind of mine lives there is a very nice little river and the steam you see is one on many outlets for bundeled energie from mother earth, tamed to heat human houses and glasshouses. So here they blow the steam off and together with the water and frost it makes qiute an interesting view. It is just there - no fence, no nothing around it.

2006-11-26T21:17:00.000Z

2006-11-25T23:10:00.000Z

As it is a very nice saturday you get two special photos from the island of fire and ice, taken by my grandson Sebastian in Hveragerði (I didn´t dare to climb dowm the frozen slope) Enjoy!

24.11

2006-11-24T22:13:00.000Z

Liebe Eltern, wo bleibt ihr??

May I introduce: my parents (oma uns opa)

23.11

2006-11-23T22:27:00.000Z

water in the boat

22.11

2006-11-22T22:39:00.000Z

Need some luck?

21.11

2006-11-21T22:04:00.000Z

tired.. see how I taught Monika to look at our beautiful landscape? :)

20.11

2006-11-20T22:42:00.000Z

Ice in Iceland

19.11.

2006-11-19T22:27:00.000Z

I know, it is boring: the weather today went up for 20 degrees Celsius and we had +2 today. In Reykjavík and, seen from the east, just there it did snow and snow and snow so that the traffic was stop. On a jeep I just could make it home.

Urriðafoss, þjórsá

18.11

2006-11-18T22:57:00.000Z

Babysittng four boys in he countryside, we had a video party with apple and peach slices, some corrots and green and red paprika and Lucky Luke: These boys like Dalton brothers. The two little ones got a story to go to bed: a story about a story that wanted to be told. Is was a small, fat little story but nobody had time ti tell it. And ste story became so sorry it had to go to the kitchen to eat chocolate and then it cried so much it had to get a towel to dry the tears from the floor, everybody was so nasty but then it met the grandmother and became very happy. Than of course had had to tell the story the story wanted to tell...and by now everyone of the four is assleep. I guest in the computerroom, so I jused the opportunity and there even is a connecton to the www It is COLD - 18 dC this morning. Thanks god tehre is little wind but still it is frosty. I tried to take pics of the cold, must look at them tommorrow when I get home. Knitting woolen socks for christmas. Strangely the grandchildren love them. And my father, he uses his in the bed.

As it is saturday and they are stolen pictues, you will get some more. I am so happy that I make somebody happy with them! The honour of picture taking goes to Lotte and Heike. Isn´t it like a fairytale?

17.11

2006-11-17T21:14:00.000Z

As so often before I am gratefull for having a big family. My two oldest granchildren stay with us for the time and how nice it must be for them in our big house: Grandma and grandpa on the top floor, uncel downstairs and Monika sandwiched in between. So they jingel around. Today I went shopping with my oldest grandson, warm clothing, jeans, socks, pullover and we spent a long time together. It was so much fun. For me.. I tried to be as serious as an 13 year old boy can be when trying on trousers. But as it was for his asking he could at least not grumble. And he ate a HUGE sandwich.

þjórsá, summer 2006

16.11

2006-11-16T18:13:00.000Z

It is cold today: -6dC and I just heard on the radio if you take the wind into account it is like -20 to -25 dC. But I got a nice little car and a good coat.
The picture of the day:
southiceland, þjórsá, summer 2006

15.11.

2006-11-15T21:35:00.000Z

icelandic landscape 2006

15.11

2006-11-14T20:47:00.000Z

grandchild no. 7

14.11.

2006-11-13T22:24:00.000Z

daily work: training the horses

13.11.

2006-11-13T00:45:00.000Z

icelandic moss

How would you like one photo a day?

2006-11-12T17:11:00.000Z

This one is taken in July 2006 in southiceland at the þjórsá river

PICS for Lisi

2006-11-08T17:08:00.000Z

This was all I could come up with the last weekend. As you see, it was raining... The car got stuck in the mud (but I didn´t drive) my shoes got dirty and the trousers wet, it was a great day! Because:

2006-11-08T16:59:00.000Z

Everything in Iceland is beautifull, even the RAIN:

2006-11-08T16:56:00.000Z

and more rain

Photos from last summer

2006-11-08T01:22:00.000Z

This pic I took while we were stuck in mud and waiting for the traktor to rescue us.

2006-11-08T01:18:00.000Z

drive with me on that road, maybe we meet Monika?

2006-11-08T01:15:00.000Z

2006-11-07T23:52:00.000Z

2006-11-07T23:47:00.000Z

here we got some mares and their foales at a beautiful summerday- oh, long since!

2006-11-07T23:40:00.000Z

So, of couse I don´t know which photo blogger choose, I gave him many. If it is not a horse or a landscape it is my latest granddaughter. Me curious. OK it is my daughter on a horse (yes, really?) And where is the rest of the pics? I will try later,

2006-11-07T23:07:00.000Z

I should blog more, I know. There are (at least) 3 people out in the www who are diappointed daily.
My problem is that I don´t really have a live. I have work and a shattered ego a week ago too, but that is boring stuff anyway, so why should I talk about there? We have great success too, but it is ot yet the time to talk about that either. So when I don´t work and don´t knit or sleep or work for work I look at the lives of my children and grandchildren but they do some and could write their own blogs, so what can I pladder over their privacy?
I could and be hopefull, I will, put pics on the net. The dark side of iceland, the rain and mudder. I will. a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" Lisi asked me and when Lisi asks me I will have to do it. But not today, please! Me exhaustted. But still alive. And remembre veerybody dear to me. That´s something, isn´t it? I must get the rythm better. From now on I will be every second weekend in town, so there is a glimpse of hope.
my, I still remember how to do it! a good first step. And now you will get leads of pics, not the rainy ones:

here is me: viking woman in action.

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2006-09-24T23:58:00.000Z

Oh, hallo evrybody! I din´t know I was missed and by now I´m shure everybody has anyhow given up on me.
I am blooming, I am happy.I got my ears pinched and have new rings in evryday.
I work like crazy and when I am not working I knit or drive out to the countryside. Somehow a full life steals time from Mr. Blog? I even started to move my body: Rope Yoga tvice a week and I love it.
I have been nice to my garden and put down many a more bulbs and two more rosebushes.
I promise I will try better from here on!

2006-04-17T23:19:00.000Z

Oh, I forgot to say, this,on the picture is an icelandic horse. There are quite a few in that area, my sister has two and had them sent from our farm some years ago. I have been on big horses too in the old, old days, but as there are only icelandic horses in Iceland that is my horse of no choice.
I talked to Monika on the phone tonight and she has a wonderful time in Germany with her sister.

2006-04-16T09:40:00.000Z

So, I am back home. It is always nice to come home again and now it is eastern sunday and I wish you all HAPPY EASTERN. It feels like I had been gone for a long time but here everything looks the same, a dust of snow and blue krokusses in my garden.
I had a very nice flight, from Osta/Volda one hour to Oslo where I had time to smoke a cigarette and buy some and then two and a half hour to Iceland where I slept most of the time in an quite empty airplane and three seats to stretch out and lay down. At home my husband had really cleaned, a sparkling kitchen and no strewn around newspapers. Margret came with her boys and we had waffeln with jam and cream.
Proudly I like to show you two more pictures from me and my holidays:

me on horseback

The cushions we made

2006-04-12T11:26:00.000Z

THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENTS. What I wanted to say in my post and I see I must say it clearer, is how the understanding of the world changes within a life: First I was just frustated and forgot it. Then I stumbeled across it again when I was grown up. And then I started working with this experiment: Understanding what happened at a grown up level, then changing the memories and pasting the bad and good ones together. But, yes, I was qiute lonely as a child. What really did save me was my horse, a best firend, an excellent listener and I spend days and days with him, grooming, walking, riding.
But for now I am in Norway, in Volda, north of Bergen and have a nice holidayweek with my sister and her family. We are very busy, going for long walks, redecorating the room of her daughter like cleaning, painting the walls, rearranging and producing hand painted pillows.
AND last not least: here is a functioning internet connection as a new plug and new cable at home did not really solve our problem.

You want to see me in Norway? Here you are

Memories?

2006-04-05T23:23:00.000Z

I am ten years old. I am on a playground in Iceland, sitting on a swing. I talk poor icelandic. Children come, ask me:”What is your name?” I say my name, they ask me again and again. In deep frustation I go home.

I am 45 years old. I am bringing my son to the kindergarden. Children come running, hanging on the fence and call:”What is your name?” I start crying and can´t stop it.

I am 50 years old. I understand why the children were never satisfied with my answer. My name was no name to them. Had my name been Anna or Elin they would have been satisfied and we could have played together. Probably they thought I was saying some word in a foreign language. “Sabine”, nothing to connect with.

I am 58 years old. The memories get scrambeld. Was it that time Elli asked me to come home with her and showed me her fascinating collection of paper napkins? Since then I collect them too and still do.

Yes, I am connected to the world once again. A new cable, a new telephon connection and here I am. What I need now is some added hour to my days.

2006-03-23T10:12:00.000Z

For those who get homesick for Iceland: Monika and me made the most beautiful evening trip yesterday- of course visiting the countryside near Hellu. The children laughed that we would drive two and a half hours to stop for one hour but is was fun and we got nice cake and looked at the batch of new puppies and a little calf. Of course Monika drove otto von dumbledore but now we didn´t listen to beethoven but to Jonny Cash. After going to the movie "walking the line" we are both fans. Driving east in the dusk we could see the lights of Rauðalæk, Hellu, Hvolsvellir shimmering in the clear air like diamonds at a chain. Far away there was even the brightness from Vestmannaeyjar. On the way back home we stopped the car and took off the lights and stared up at the amazing mass of stars above us. There was no cloud, no moon to disturb us. I feel so tiny looking at the vast universe around us.

2006-03-22T10:00:00.000Z

Yes aunti móa, I think you are right about the picture, I was wondering myself. No, that is not my home, it is at a friends and we "girls" went together to university around 1988-90 and meet regularly through the years. My home is not so well groomed as this specially beautiful house looks to be.
I see that Heike is chatting in Monikas Blog, best regards from me, dearest!
Here life is very comfortable, my husband is still abroad, children and grandchildren are running in and out of my home and the days are getting longer and brighter. And I am knitting handmade love to wear for my daughters. They need it I think.

jæja stelpur, hér erum við

2006-03-15T10:02:00.000Z

2006-03-14T10:00:00.000Z

I am still here and everything is fine. I am at work now with nothing to do but sitting around. My little pupil was so exhausted this morning, he is fast asleep in a confortable corner and the bigger one did not arrive, so I have lots of time on my hand.
The last two weeks saw me driving from town to countryside, back and forth. My countryside daughter and her family took two and a half week off and so we ( that´s Minoka, me and my husband) took shifts to take care of two granchildren left there who are in Jakobinas care for the time being. It was much fun, nice to sit with the two boys in the evening, having home baked cake ready when they came from school and chat. I knitted a lot and will soon be ready to take some pictures.
In town me and Monika are alone in our big house and have a swell time, my husband being on golfholidays abroad. Our evening fun has been that Monika is playing a Playstation game and I sit and knit and yell her on. We two even went to the cinema: "walking the line".
The one hour drive ( I need some more time, being a grandma) is so beautiful, I can´t get enough of it. You drive up into the mountains through a big lavafield, covered with grey moss. The sun is shining on the mountaintops which are sprinkled with snow. clouds are massing in the sky, heavy, dovegrey with a sparkle of light in between. Mother of pearl colours. On the other side of the mountains: The panorama of the south plain, lined by the sea, bordered by glaciers, cut through by a big river. In Selfoss we usually shop some. And on through the plain: sheep grazing, horses looking into the distance, turning their backs against the wind. Some, few farms. And always the panorama around us, Langjökull to the left, the vulkano Hekla, more mountains and glaciers ahead. But we turn long before we reach them and drive down in direction to the sea, first the road is nice, the rest is a hard packed sand trail. Arriving at the two lonely houses the dogs greet us, hysterically happy, barking and jumping around.

2006-02-27T20:51:00.000Z

Somethings goes wrong here- again. Wrote two posts lost them in cyberspace, lost connection.
Am fine, love you all, have a nice day.