11.09.09
A beautiful November day
Well, the weekend is over already and it always seems like we get nothing done, however as many may have seen Rúnar has been busy with the website. He’s added the index page for me to this one so that it’s “nicer” when you first visit the link. Then he is working hard at the whole thing starting pretty much over in Dreamweaver. The site was in Frontpage and it seems when they did something to the server not too long ago it no longer likes to accept the page updates from us. We´re hoping Dreamweaver will work instead but it will take awhile because Rúnar is still learning how to use it and to tell you the truth I don’t want Rúnar to spend all his time on the website, I’d rather he help train or walk the dogs or do something for himself or the “school”.
Wow, you guys are going to town on your comments. hehehe Thanks for the feedback guys. Don’t know if I will manage to address them all but I love to read them. I will say Laura that we have been offering private lessons and that is how we got together the first class we held. We had thought of just offering private lessons but a couple people wanted to learn together, we were lucky enough to be able to use their house once or twice and they didn’t mind an extra student and their dog coming along. We haven’t advertised and I think it’s hard at the moment because Christmas is coming and no one wants to go to a dog training class when they are getting ready for that. At least here in Iceland Christmas is a really big deal and unfortunately people spend way too much money too so don’t have any extra for lessons.
Rúnar wants to train our own dogs a bit before we hold more courses. I agree, we have pretty much let our dogs sit on a “shelf” for awhile and it’s really unfair to them. Each day we spend a few minutes training make the dogs so happy and that makes us happy too! So in the spirit of that when our friend Brynhildur called on Saturday and said she was going for a walk with her dog Sunnusteins Sif and would we like to bring Klói for some photos we decided we couldn’t pass up that opportunity. Klói and Sif have gone for walks together before, they really seem to like each others company. We packed Klói, Hófi and Frigg in the car and met her on the mountain lava fields. She got some great photos, and we got a few while the battery was working. Unfortunately when we wanted to take photos of Frigg and Hófi the batteries were dead so no photos of the girls. Brynhildur took a few and maybe we can post them here soon. The moss is so thick there it’s like carpeting, very uneven and lumpy and the strange thing is that it seemed to help my back a bit. I felt no pain while we were walking on the “carpet” and up the hills (almost fell a couple times when I lost my balance but my back was fine) but when we got to the car and stood still to talk for a few minutes the stupid back started up again.
I had gone to the store on Friday, not that big a store but it is a bit of a walk, took us about half an hour and when I got to the counter I could hardly stand. I swear the time I can stand or walk without it locking or horrible pain keeps getting shorter and shorter. I lay on the couch that evening and tried to rest. Rúnar was his adorable self and made our Friday night gluten free pizza, I made a mistake of drinking some Pepsi with it and well I have figured out that I just can’t drink caffeine and especially not Coke or Pepsi could be the other junk in there too, high glucose corn syrop. I try to stay away from junk food but I do cheat off and on and each time I do I promise myself to learn a lesson from it but I’m a stickler for punishment obviously. I have a stupid sweet tooth that doesn’t listen to reason. I couldn’t sleep at all on Friday night, don’t know why, caffeine plus my usual insomnia maybe besides my mind and brain going a mile a minute trying to figure out what male dog to use on Hófi. It looks like Frigg is starting her heat so the others will all follow very soon. I tell you I go in circles and just can’t seem to find the right dog. Well, Klói is her NEXT beau and so I need an unrelated one for this litter that will mix well with Klói’s line in future. I might have gotten an hour or two of sleep before Frigg woke me to go outside and that was going on 10. Rúnar got to sleep in which is unusual so I’m glad he got a few extra hours. Many may have noticed that I updated in the wee hours of the morning (around 6 or 7 I think) and I hadn’t been to bed. I really have insomnia a lot lately, I should write my book when that happens but no I tend to hang out on the computer and waste time. Friday I decided to waste time on the updates and maybe some didn’t realize there were actually two updates at the same time! 
The reason for that was I had alot on my mind as usual, hehehe No actually I wanted to separate the two things with tags and thought they were unrelated. I’m wondering if I should use the date as the title to make it easier to see when I’ve added something especially for those who don’t check every day?
Anyway, we had a wonderful walk, I felt so much better when we got home but again needed to rest because I was so tired. Lucky me, my friend called yesterday morning and said she had to cancel our session of massage and I was happy because then I got to sleep really late. I slept (or more like lay in bed wishing I could sleep) half the day and Rúnar did the housework and took care of the dogs.
I’m going to try something Rúnar said would work, putting thumbnails that will enlarge if you click on them. I tried it on preview and it seems to work so here goes…enjoy! Unfortunately the photos don’t come out too big when you click on them, I had already compressed them to ease with download for those with land line. Maybe I don’t have to compress photos anymore, it looks like they get compressed as soon as I upload them into the blog. So anyway, with the photos I tried two different ways this time. The first you click on the photo once and it opens but then you have to use the back arrow back to the gallery since it opens in the same window (no setting to do it differently). The second was opening an attachment page where you can put comments and I thought that might be nice and so I have it that way. If you want to see the photo slightly bigger and without comments you can click on it again from that page. Although again you have to use the back arrow when you want to go back to the gallery. Haven’t figured out if there is a way to open in a new window or go directly to the next photo, I don’t think there is. Maybe Rúnar can help me today after work and I can fix it. If I change anything with the gallery I’ll fix the text about it here as well. Might be I’ll remove the comments part too, don’t know if it means we’ll get more spam, have to make sure it’s “safe” that way with the photos.
As always a day spent in the company of a dear friend is all the medicine I need. It was a great walk and the dogs slept so well afterwards. When we came home Rúnar took Birta and Skella out to the lighthouse for a nice walk and I made supper. Great day. Can’t say today was eventful, like I said I slept most the day and walked around dizzy the rest of it. Tomorrow’s (or should I say “today” – hehe I forgot the time again) a new day and I am bound and bent I’m going to knit a bit to finish my sweater for Xmas, I only have one sleeve and the collar left to do. Must keep away from the computer for once…Facebook is one hard habit to break, worst addition I think there is. I’m gonna try for one day or maybe just half a day. HA, wish me luck.
