Jokes about the eruption

Here are some jokes that have been flying around in Facebook land :o)

1) Latest news says that the dead, icelandic economie´s last wish was that it´s ash would be spread over Europe.

2) Britain: WHAT Iceland?!? Why did you send us volcanic ash ? Our airspace has shut down.

Iceland: What ? It's what you asked for isn't it ?

Britain: NO! Cash! Cash you dyslexic people. CASH!

Iceland: woooops...To the British and Dutch Governments: There is no C in the Icelandic alphabet, so when you ask for Cash, all you get is Ash..."

3) When you take a look over a picture of Europe where the Ash fall is shown, some people say that it looks like we´re pooping over Europe or at least stepping on them with our shoes.

Then we have all the pronunciation problems with the name of the glacier Eyjafjallajökull :o) You can see it on my Facebook wall.

About the eruption

Hi everyone. I just wanted to upload some info about the eruption. It is not affecting us in any way, unless we where gonna drive the south way to visit our folks or go to the city. We could go the north way but it is not as beautiful as the south way.

No one has died (people or livestock) in the eruption but the most danger are the floods and then how much damages the Ash fall is gonna do for the farmers who live there.

The livestock needs to be inside and the Ash goes everywhere even if people tries to avoid it. The homes needs to be closed too and very, very warm to keep the ash outside. It´s like night all day round where the ash is doing the most damage and it looks like a gray snow storm. The ash is bad in long term, the farmers can´t grow their potatos, grains or grass for the livestock about 1-3 years after the Ash stops falling.

We've had no ash fall what so ever - probably we will not have any. You can see the locations on this map:http://www.icetofire.net/iceland2010Erup

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Here are some info from a a leading Scottish vulcanologist who has spent years studying the volcanoes in Iceland. I just took glimpse from there and there in his article.

And, even more ominously, the eruptions of the comparatively small volcano have historically been linked to massive eruptions by the nearby volcano Katla, one of Iceland's two feared "Angry Sisters".

Deposits from the ash cloud formed by Katla when it erupted spectacularly in 1755 can still be found in peat bogs in Shetland and other parts of northern Europe

He explained that the huge plume of volcanic ash which has brought chaos to the skies over Europe had been caused by magma mixing with the ice from a 200-metre thick glacier inside the crater.

"When this volcano erupted a couple of weeks ago, the lava was just coming out of the side and making lava floes," Mr Stevenson said.

"But what is different this time is that the eruptions are in the middle crater of the volcano and the crater there is filled with a glacier which is 200 metres thick.

"That means that when the magma – the hot liquid rock – comes out, it melts the ice and then the meltwater turns to steam. Then that steam expands explosively which then breaks the magma up into the fine ash particles we find in the cloud.

"The lava is also coming out ten times faster than the last eruption."

He explained that there were essentially two possible scenarios facing Eyjafjallajoekull.

"The best case scenario is that the eruptions fizzle out now and the ash clears in a couple of days.

"But in the worst case scenario we could be facing sporadic disruption to flights for a year. The last time this volcano erupted the eruptions lasted from December 1821 until January 1823. And that could happen again."

However, even if the volcano does continue to erupt it does not necessarily mean that air traffic would be as badly affected as in recent days.

The current eruption has produced an unprecedented problem because winds are blowing ash towards Europe and an area of high pressure, and therefore low winds, means the particles are not dissipating quickly.

And more pics.

Guðbergur Davíð ready to go somewhere with the Toothpaste jar.


John happy in the snow.


Margrét to busy to smile for mommy.


I think we could call this a kind of Spiderman dance :o)


Nothing else this time sweeties. Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the MN spring for me!

More pig pics...

Here is the family, from right the father John (Jón) then the mother Glacier Island (Jökuley) and the babies, Raven (Krummi) and Multi colour (Marglita). They are from the second birth.


Here´s the mom with her to big nipples BWAHAHHHAHH!!!!!!! I and Margrét found this pic VERY funny :o)


Here are the babies from the first birth , Coffie and Chocolade. We are afraid that the mom is pregnant for the 3rd time! The couple seem to like each other VERY much right after the birth......uh!


And Lynette: Thor had a baby in November. She is beauti- and wonderful and her name is Karólína :o)


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Hi again!

Hi again everybody! For weeks I´ve been on my way asking Ágúst if he could help me with this blog, which I somehow didn´t manage to enter anymore, and the WOLLA! I did it myself :o) So now I´ll try to blog more often.
It´s a good idea to become a "follower" so you´ll get new updates.

You have probably heard about the eruption here in Ice. It´s taking place in the south (we live in the North-East 6 hours driving away) and when we went south for Easter Break we could see the "steam" rising up fom the eruption place long ways because of the good weather. Then we flew over there in the morning sun withÁgúst´s father who has a little airplane. That was an amazing trip, beautiful harmony of ice oand fire, steam and sunsrise. The eruption is taking place on a glacier, no homes are in danger unless the eruption decides to move or if there opens a new crack closer to the main glacier. Lot of people have been going there to watch the eruption, flying in helicpters, plains, driving on jeeps and walking on the mountain. Tuesday 2 icelandic people died when they got lost on the mountain. The 3rd person survived. The weather up there can chance very quicly, you arrive in a great, great weather and 30 minutes later you have a blizzard. It´s also vey cold up there. There have been so many people visiting the eruption place that they say sometimes it´s like a clearensday in a mall :o)

I´ll post pics soon from the eruption but here is Guðbergur Davíð playing in the snow. Behind him is the house of our next door friends.


I´m postin these ones for my little friends, the kiddos of Lynette Sawicky who wanted long ago to see our guinea pigs. So here is one of the babies from the second birth living in my swimmingbag! He prefared that hen the purple home :o)


And here he is again, so cute!


Here´s the father, Jón (John) playing the piano. Margét owns him.