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27.09.2015 09:20

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose

And they are, but had a difficult time this year. Late spring and nearly no summer, so it took them some time to get into flower and some haven't opened their buds yet. Hope they'll at least get a good autumn!

Here they are and I attached the names of those I knew. If you'd like to find more information in them, please check out this webpage.

Home and Garden

Alliota

Allgold

Duftzauber 84

Rhapsody in Blue

My namesless miniroses

And last but not least a cutting from my late grandfather's climbing rose which my mum grew for me. No name, but beautiful!

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26.09.2015 13:42

Laufskálarétt

Like the previous 2 years we spent this weekend in a great group of horsepeople, enjoying delicious food, interesting conversations and good horses.

Unlike last year neither did we attend the horseshow in Sauðárkrókur nor did I follow the group on horseback but found myself a decend place to take pictures, which I really enjoyed.

It was fun to see, how many people I actually knew rode by and greeted.

There was a girl really unlucky an fell off her horse in front of the camera, so I now have a very detailed study of that.

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23.09.2015 13:07

Live and let die

This maybe sounds a bit pathetic, but that's the way it is, when you are a sheepfarmer and have to decide, which ones are going to the slaughterhouse and which ones have a future as breedingstock.

Today was this day at Hólmavað and we helped a bit when María, the farmingcounselor came and checked the chosen ones.

In between I detected one of Snilld's lambs and her daughter from last year, which was too small then to be slaughtered. Both of them and the other lamb from this year went to the slaughterhouse. That's the way of life and you have to let them go if you want to eat meat.

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20.09.2015 12:50

Leatherwork

I've always liked to work with leather and I definitely needed a showhalter for taking pics of our horses. But as we have mostly dark horses, a regular black one wouldn't be as much an eyecatcher as I'd like it to be.
Luckily I remembered some fishrod I bought a few years ago and could use it for the noseband of this halter.

Hope you like it as much as I do and if you are interested in getting a custommade showhalter or noseband with fishrod, please send me a line!

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13.09.2015 12:29

Hraunsrétt 2015

After a short night we went on horseback to Hraunsrétt for sorting the sheep.

It's always great fun, especially when you spot a special sheep you've been looking for. Kristján was very fast finding Snilld, which was happy getting some treats immediately and started to beg for more... Strange sheep!

Bensi got around 400 sheep home, but still quite a lot were missing and we hope they'll show up soon.

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12.09.2015 11:34

Göngur II

After collecting sheep for the last 2 days, the big herd was driven down to the valley today.

It's always a pleasure to get men, horses,dogs and sheep back healthy and in good mood. This year the farmers got help from a tourist group from Saltvík and I think everybody was glad to be there. Must be a special experience to be there for the first time.

Snilld and at least one of her rams were spotted and I discovered that she has a lookalike.

Looking forward to sorting tomorrow.

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09.09.2015 11:20

Göngur I

Now it's the time of the year when the sheep are gathered and therefore Ingólfur and a group of other "gangnamenn" rode up to Þeistareykir today.

Ingólfur went with Magnús, Katla and Skuggi, but loaned Gjöf to Bjössi. Everybody was in good mood when they started and even Baldur at the age of 80 joined them again this year.

I think they had quite some longer stops on the way to the hut as it was already dark when they finally arrived. Hope they'll have good weather the next days and the gathering will be successful with not too many sheep left behind. Of course I hope for Snilld and her two lambs to come back already with this first group.

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22.08.2015 10:57

Uninvited guests

came to pay us their visit today, like they already did all summer, eating the delicious, fertilized grass, that was supposed to grow undisturbed.

Unfortunately the fence, which was built quite some years ago to keep the sheep away from Húsavíkland, is more or less broken and not keeping any sheep wanting to go north from their homefarm on the southern side of it.

We've been busy chasing them from our fields during the last years, but they keep coming back and bringing their offspring...

Sadly their owner doesn't care very much about it as they always come home with the biggest lambs. No wonder when they are grazing on our meadows, fertilized, green and sweet.

Hope the community is going to do something about the fence next spring. We already fixed the part close to our stables, but there are a few kilometers left to repair.

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20.08.2015 20:13

Coming home

Vordís and Þrá had spent a few weeks with Geisli frá Sælukoti and we fetched them today after the ultrasound check.

Vordís was ultrasounded pregnant with an about 50 day old foal, which will be a fullsibbling to our Sigtýr. It would be perfect to get a yellowdun mare. But a mare in any colour would be great. Possible colours are black, brown, bluedun and yellowdun, no redbased colours as Geisli is homozygotous for black.

Þrá wasn't ultrasounded in foal, but Geisli was still with them so there's a tiny chance to get another foal. That one would come with a colourguarantee for black.

The ladies joined our foalmares and foals in Haga, where Vordís took over the moment she arrived. Now Snerpa and her brother can tease their grandma a bit.

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17.08.2015 19:54

Horsetrip

But not ours. Iðunn and Loftur started a new trip with a big herd of loose horses and we helped them when they went from Saltvík. When I saw in which direction they went, I asked Ingólfur to stop at a place where I could possibly take some nice pics. Hope you like the one I posted.

Afterwards we checked on our foals and were happy that they are still so tame and interested in people.

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15.08.2015 21:15

Leirhnjúkur

The weather was perfect, the hay already pressed and we had a bit of time. So we decided to take a drive to Mývatnarea and walk at Leirhnjúkur in Krafla.

There were quite some tourists, but it was possible to enjoy severel places without disturbance. It's a magic place, where you are very close to nature and can experience first handed the powers below the surface.

Would be great to go there for a horse photoshooting... Maybe some day... You never know!

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13.08.2015 12:07

Busy, busy, busy

That's what our days have been. Today it was finally possible to rake the hay together and hopefully we'll be able to bring it in soon.

Whilst Ingólfur was busy on the tractor, I checked on our foalmares, which would have been a pleasure, if there wouldn't have been myrads of midges.

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02.08.2015 11:44

Sigtýr

Sigtýr got a long break as he got so thin troughout spring. Today we fetched him from the pasture and put him to the field with Magnús and Skuggi.

We expected quite some action, but there was barely anything eventhough Skuggi and Sigtýr had been castrated rather late. It took a few minutes and squeeks and then Sigtýr had taken over regency.

I like it when horses are so selfconfident, they don't need to show who they are with kicks, biting and rearing, but just through their appearance and mimics.

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29.07.2015 23:08

A day in Aðaldalur

Good weather, no plans so why not call Halldór and ask if there would be a river crossing today?

In fact there was and so we took a drive to Helluland to wait there for the group. We used the opportunity and took a few pics of young geldings there. They really look promising and I'm looking forward to maybe get one or another of them to training next autumn.

After a quick coffee we looked for a place to take pics and after finding it had to wait quite some time for the group to come. Seems like things didn't go as smooth as Halldór had wished for, but in the end I got a few very nice shots of horses and rider.

Ómar Ómurson

Straumur Þristurson

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28.07.2015 22:07

Eveningvisit

Whilst Ingólfur was helping Bensi with the hay, I used the time to visit our foals at the neighbourfarm. Of course I had my camera with me and tried to get nice pics of these little monsters.

That's in fact not that easy as the moment they spot you, they come and try to get a good scratch. I think, they'd love to have us with a good brush around all the time at the moment as they are loosing their babyfur and that's rather itchy...

Well, in the end they left me alone and I was able to take some pics.

Hope you like them.