Hello sweet life as a gelding! Not sure the guys were happy when waking up, but for sure it makes their lives easier in the future. Vignir, our vet, came today to geld Þeyr, Blær and little Blesi. Things went fast and well and they were up again in no time. When everybody was ready to go they got a ride to Haga, where they'll stay over summer. Moving around will be good for them.

The dove is still here and even coming to feed in our garden, which gives me good opportunities to watch it and take pics. 
Later today I spent some time with Pandóra, Flugsvinn and the foal and it's amazing how this little guy's growing, just 2 weeks old and already looking so different.
Pandóra is in fact a cousin to the little guy as their fathers are brothers. Pandóra out of Snillingur frá Íbishóli and the foal is son of the late Óskasteinn frá Íbishóli.

Yesterday I thought I'd heard a familiar birdcall, well familiar to me because I've heard it quite often in Austria, but never in Iceland before. Didn't see the bird, but heard it again early in the morning and was able to detect the source of the sound. It was an Eurasian collared dove. Managed to get a pic and hope it'll stick around a bit. Think it's the first one ever reported at Húsavík!

...is going well. The guys are getting used to the halter, being tied, brushed and led. Both doing a good job and even cutting the hooves wasn't a big issue.
A few days more and then they'll meet the vet and be gelded before leaving to the summer pasture.

Time to move the guys up to the stables to teach them a few basics before being gelded and released to the summerpasture.
Pandóra and Hugleikur were left behind in the field as they were going to go to separate places afterwards. 
Ingólfur walked Vordís and Ögn followed by our 2 young stallions and Siffi's Blesi up to the stables. Of course the guys had to have a look at everything and run around like crazy a bit, but were more or less following like they were supposed to. We are lucky enough that we just have to cross the main road once and are then inside fences when walking to the stables. So not too many chances to do stupid things.
After getting the bunch of them into the paddock we actually had to get them inside, which wasn't so easy but we managed in the end. Now we had to convince them to get and stay in the boxes. Blær went into the stallionbox as we thought he'd be the most likely to misbehave and jump out. Þeyr was in the box next to him and Blesi opposite Þeyr. The only one misbehaving was 24 year old Vordís rearing and jumping around not being happy about being locked up. 
So we fetched the trailer, loaded Pandóra and Hugleikur, left Pandóra with Flugsvinn and the foal and Hugleikur and Vordís got a drive to their summerpasture. Vordís was gone in an instant, didn't even look back.
Ögn is going to stay with the guys as a kind of babysitter.

We moved Flugsvinn and her foal to the big field by the sea today as we're planning on moving Vordís, Ögn and the youngsters up to the stable. It went surprisingly smooth getting the two of them out of the field without anybody else attempting to join.
The little guy followed his mum like he was glued to her and didn't even mind Ingólfur touching him.
Tíbrá, my ewe, had given birth to 2 white lambs yesterday and today we went to mark them. They got the numbers 208 and 210 as Bensi made a mistake with number 209 closing the ear of one of the lambs when marking. Well, think they don't care about those number.

Visited Jóel at his farm today to have a look how things are going during lambingseason and to check out when he wanted to get rid off our horses. 
It was a beautiful, sunny day and just too cute to see the newborn lambs and how much they and their mothers trust the old farmer and love to be around him.

Just forgot to tell you yesterday that we checked on Flugsvinn on Friday and thought she wouldn't be due so early as she had about 2 weeks left according to our notes. Anyway the little one does well, nurses frequently and is quite a funny guy. Of course his mum is still rather protective of him towards the other horses, but soon he'll be allowed to get to know them. 

Today was election day in Iceland and as I'm not personally connected to anyone on the ticket I was a great candidate for volunteering at the poll site. Ingólfur drove me to my designated site in the countryside and promised to fetch me when getting the voting boxes from the other sites in the evening. Little did I know it would be really hard for me staying there as we got a call from a friend when just leaving town that our mare Flugsvinn had given birth to her foal after Óskasteinn frá Íbishóli during the night. 
No way for me to check on them before getting back in the evening. So Ingólfur had a look and sent me some pics during the day. 
We got a little bay stallion, probably going to be really darkbay. 
So after an endless seeming election day I managed to finally see my foal. Cute little guy with, as it seems, all gaits. Looking forward to getting to know him better.