News - from March 2008

We have been waiting for a day like this: sunshine, finally mild temperatures and no wind at all. Not just to refresh our winter souls but to start to renew the roof on the west side of the house. The east side had been done during our construction works in 2005. While the craftsmen worked high up our girls cleaned all riding gears because the riding season is starting next week.

I have uploaded new pictures in the gallery from Vorvakur, Jörfi and Perla, sheep and lambs as well as the construction and cleaing works.
Click here!

It´s a big moment every year when the first foal is born.
This years first foal is a pretty palomino stallion with a blaze. His name is Vorvakur and some of you may know already who his mother is....
Right, it´s Vordís, our "goddess of spring". Her offspring's mostly get a name with the prefix "Vor" (spring). When I was taking pictures of him today he came directly to me to say hello and introduce him self. His name is Vorvakur, he told me with his brown eyes and his soft beard. That means spring awakening! Lovely name for him, we think.
Jörfi is his sire and he gave away his crème gene to make Vorvakur a palomino horse. His blaze comes from his grandfather Glóblesi frá Syðra Skörðugíli. We look forward to see him developing into a riding horse during the next five years.

As today's title says it is not only joy but also sorrow which follows the life with horses (or life anyway).
While Vordis gave birth to Vorvakur our 18 years old gelding Bliður was fighting for his life. He got a stroke or bleeding in the brain which damaged his sense of balance. He lost his fight - we had to put him down.
With Bliður we lost one of our best riding horses. He was always willing, liked to be in the front, had very smooth gaits and was reliable in every situation.
We are sure that it´s not only us which will miss him but also many of our guests which had the chance to ride him.

The lamb season has started today with the first lambs. It is always a big event to get the first ones and especially Júlíus is very exited. Long days and nights and much work await us for the next weeks.
The weather is not good at all. Snow, frost and very cold wind from North make the situation not easy for the sheep to give birth outside. We have to be quick to bring the new born lambs and their mothers inside.
Anyway we hope for a good lambseason....and better weather ;-)

We have now filled up the stable with young horses and started to train them. Steffi from Germany who has been with us for many times before and Corinne from Switzerland are giving us a hand with the work.

The horses we are training are 5-7 years old and we have a lot of fun with this very cooperative group of young horses. They improve every day and we look forward to longer the rides with them.
The weather has not been very special but very windy and cold. But we are use to say: There is no bad weather but bad cloths! :-)

Enjoy a few pictures from our recent work. Click here!

We can finally present our new website design.
Please take you time to discover our sites! You will find a new menu, new sites and hundreds of new pictures. We really hope you will like the new outlook and the contents! Visit us often and leave your signature in the guestbook! :-)

There are still some works left to do for me as to link some of the detailed programs. If you have any questions simply send us an e-mail. We will answer immediately and send you the details via e-mail.

I have also left to link the riding tour galleries and will do this during the next weeks. So, don´t miss to step by and have a look if there is anything new.

The riding tour season will start in May. The tours are already well booked, some of them fully booked. Ask for the capacities!

Finally we wish you all Happy Easter!

Best regards from Iceland
Evelyn and Sveinn