Winter is coming, the days are getting shorter and shorter and it's time to light up the darkness a bit. So I used my sparetime today and put up the Christmaslights on our fence and parts of the flowerbed. Like the look!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The last 2 days we helped at Hólmavað with checking all the sheep. Both ewes, rams and those supposed to be the future breedingstock. Difficult to decide who's supposed to live and who's going to the slaughterhouse. In the end there were around 40 yearlings left who'll be bred for the first time. One of them is now mine. It's a black and white triplet and I'm looking forward to getting to know her better. Her number is 20-155 and now I'll have to find a name. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Phalaenopsis definitely like their new place and started flowering a few days ago. Now they are in full bloom and I set them up for a photoshot. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All around our garden! Ingólfur raked them up and put most of them in the trailer to be driven away. We raked quite some amount underneath our trees where they are going to protect the flower bulbs I planted earlier this autumn. And of course they'll make the birds looking for food happy as insects will hide there, too. 
And then I used an unwatched moment, grabbed the ladder and saw and cut off the extratrunk of our Larch.  Like the look of it afterwards.
Some roses are still flowering and I'll cut some of them to have inside when the weather gets colder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time to move the riding horses to the autumn pasture at Ísólfsstaðir. Went with a bunch today and they were really happy to get their freedom. 
Whilst chatting with the farmers I spotted some of his sheep approaching and got some nice pics of them in the sunset. Think I'll have to get a print of those for them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just finished to fix the broken part of our big shelter. Next step is painting the older one and then we'll be ready to go for the next winter. 

 

 

 

 

you might ask. Haven't heard much of them lately. Well, first things first: we'll probably get 3 foals after Hugleikur next summer. 2 of them will be very early as he did a nearly too good job with Flugsvinn and Ögn getting them pregnant in their first heat. Vordís is pregnant, too, but we aren't sure if she'll keep it as she's getting older and things are a bit more sensitive then. It should be her last foal anyway. Of course we hope the best and she's in very good shape physically and mentally.
Hugleikur and Pandóra are growing like there's no tomorrow and started getting their wintercoat. Soon we'll have to fetch them and the mares home and the riding horses will move to Ísólfsstaðir.