Now it was time to think about the horses at Ísólfsstaðir. Ingólfur and Óli Sam had a look at them at Thursday and Elín checked on them on Friday. They were at a good spot and all 20 of them alive, which wasn't taken for granted after the storm over Iceland on Tuesday and Wednesday and the news we got from Skagafjörður and Húnavatnssýsla where horses were covered by snow and burried alive.
We met Friðbjörn around 10 o'clock and decided to open the gate to the meadows and feed some big roundbales there. Then we had to check on the fences and move the horses to their new place.
The weather wasn't too good, wind and snow showers whilst we were opening the gate, checked the fences and finally moved the roundbales with a car and per hand to the right place. The horses were still at the same place and didn't dare to move from there as it was really difficult to walk in the snow. Whilst Ingólfur and Friðbjörn fetched the horses and I moved the car back to the right spot, Óli removed the plastic from the bales and spread bread for the horses. Then we just had to wait for the herd. After a few moments a beautiful line of horses appeared following Friðbjörn leading Ösp. What a relieve to watch them approaching and then just rushing to feast on bread and hay. All of them in good shape and healthy. Alltogether this took about 4 hours.
There's still no electricity at Tjörnes, where the horses are staying and most of the farmers left their homes as their heating is solely electric and the houses were getting pretty cold.
Tomorrow we'll keep on deicing the fence here at Húsavík and we hope to get a machine with a concrete breaker to get through the frozen ground and put down new fenceposts.