Me and my folk in my country

The weekend was in the country. In the south part of Iceland I and my family have a land to raise a forest and there we have a little cabin. Well it is very little and you could perhaps use the word tiny for it. Last autumn we decided to make a new window for the hut and last weekend was the time to put it in place. My brother did most of the window, designing it and everything.

The designer, carpender and engineer: My brother Gunni

My mother taking care of everything!


My father had some things to do as usual.

In the evening we had a kind of a birthday party since my father's birthday was last Friday. All of a sudden we had some rain and soon after that there came the most marvellous rainbow I have seen for years!


The great rainbow over the mountain Búrfell

In the old sagas the rainbow was the bridge to the land of gods where Walhalla was supposed to be. As you can see in my face I’m very much afraid there will come some trolls and take us and eat… or even worse, change us to snakes or anything terrible.


The coward in the country!

Since it was getting cold we led the stove outside. Well we didn’t have much heat from it but it looked nice to have it and we felt a little bit warmer. I wrote in my diary:

"It is rather chilly and I’m more or less freezing and you can tell from my handwriting. We had that very bad weather forecast for tomorrow and it is now almost two o’clock after midnight. Gúnni [my rother] is brushing his tooth. My hands are cold and U2 is playing in the radio. Then I will go to sleep… I will blog this!"

There was a fire in the stove

The weather didn’t turn as badly as the weather forecast had predicted. There was some heavy wind around 8 o’clock in the morning but just for half an hour or so. I and my brother went home before noon but our parents stayed a little bit longer. Around noon the rain started and they went also back home.

When I came home I became extremely tired and went to bed in all my clothes. Not as I’m used to sleep! ;-)…. I woke up about 9 o’clock in the evening and stayed awake until 3 o’clock in the night when I finally went to sleep. Not in any clothes this time. Slept until next day and was too late to work. It was a good weekend.