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06.03.2013 20:06

Guess what...

... it's snowstorm again emoticon

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Last week almost all the ice melted, the outsidehorses could finally reach the grass underneath the snow again and the ridingtracks started to be rather good after first being frozen and then muddy like hell.

We were invited to the baptism of Lára Soley's and Hjalti's little daughter who got the name Hulda Margrét after both her grandmothers. Of course we made the cake and I attach a pic. Hjördís and Ingólfur's father went with us and we had a great day together.

Sundayevening it got colder and Monday we had a wonderful snowstorm, the road to Akureyri was closed again and it was pure luck that the "Skálmöld"-concert was not delayed due to the weather. The band already arrived in Húsavík during the night from Sunday to Monday. The concert was great and I'm very much looking forward to have them here again in spring/early summer.

Yesterday the weather was quite ok, eventhough rather cold and the horses enjoyed themselves outside, playing and digging for more grass. During the night we got another storm and it was definitely no fun driving to Saltvík to feed the horses in the morning. Of course Vikurskarð was closed again and I just heard in the news, that they were fetching people from there that have been stuck in their cars up there since in the morning... This time the weather was so bad, that the local authorities decided to stop cleaning the snow off the roads as the roads were just closing right after the plough again. Good to own a jeep... Well, we were allowed to send the kids home earlier from school or rather let their parents pick them up. That has never happend since I work in this school...

We went right after school to check on our horses. The outsidehorses needed a new roundbale of hay and we were hoping to move it with our car like usual. But there was so much snow, that our car got stuck already at the gate. After getting it out again, we took a walk down to the bales and the two of us rolled it to our horses. Not so easy against the storm and uphill, but we managed. This time we just cut a few holes in the plasticcover so the storm wouldn't blow half of the hay away. The horses didn't mind, they were just happy to get more to eat.

In Saltvík we first had to dig ourselves in, just to dig ourselves out again, when we left 2 hours later. The horses were fine, having it nice and warm inside. We let them run a bit in the ridinghall and they really enjoyed that, bucking around and having fun. Afterwards they were happy to get their hay.

Please keep your fingers crossed, that this weather stops soon and we get our sun back!