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Summer at Langhús.
After surviving the winter, with it's joys, beuty and hardship, summer comes. Wonderful summer, brought to load us with energy for the rest of the year. In the summertime, people in Iceland tend to be working or doing something almost all the time. The nights are bright, you never see darkness, so why sleep? One can always sleep in the blizzards in january.

Röskva is in a ditch there...you just can't see it. It's filled with big yellow water flowers, called Hofsóley in icelandic (means an aristocratic island of sun). The ditch is by the horse pasture, but the pastures also have many smaller relatives of these flowers, simply called Sóley (island of sun).

Ahhh, summer with grass, flowers, warmth, happiness, haymaking, riding, horsetrekking, bright nights... wonderful.

The horse-pasture has a pretty pond in the summertime.

In the lake is an island, where lots of eiderducks nest. They give us eiderdown.
The small flags intimidate foxes, and attract eiderducks.
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We have a few ducks, of mixed mallard origin. They are primarily kept for their eggs, as they lay an egg per day from february to october. They are easy keepers, eat the same consentrates as the cows all year round. When the weather is above freezing point they roam outside in the daytime, eating what they find in ponds and pudles. In the evening they wait by the barn-door, so they can be in their pen at night. They are fun to have, as they have a tendency to appear anywhere where you least expect them, babbling and fussing.

The summer 1998.
The white duck and the front duck (with white neckband) are the proud mothers.

A pair I bought 2 years ago for a bottle of brandy looks almost identical to wild mallards, but they are exellent egg-laying stock. They're my loved ones.

Very often the evening wiew from our living-room window is simply breathtaking.

There are two rivers in Fljót where it is popular to fish for trout and salmon. Here a small part of one of the rivers is running through marshland with beutiful flowers.

Fljót are surrounded by mountains. Here you see the road (the small horisontal thread that can be seen across the middle of the mountain) to our nearest village, Siglufjörður. The village is in a fjord between this mountain and the next one.