{"id":62,"date":"2019-05-01T09:29:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T09:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegarage.is\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2019-05-01T09:43:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T09:43:52","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thegarage.is\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Us and small stories from around:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The area\nhere around is called \u201eUndir Eyjafj\u00f6llum\u201c, in english \u201eUnder the Mountains\u201c we\nthink it is a Paradise on earth. The mountains and the Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kul-glacier\nshield us from the cold north wind and the sun shines from the south.  But it can get very windy, and this area is\nknown as the windiest area in Iceland especially in the autumn and the\nwinter.  Don\u00b4t be afraid though the wind\nblows, just hurry inside into the strongbuilt house and listen to the wind\nblow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are a\nfamily living at the farm.  Anna and Sigurdur\n(Siggi), husband and wife.  Siggi is a\nmechanicer and Anna is a lawyer (got bored of that profession and is now glad\nto serve her guests).  We have two grown up\nchildren, Einar 23 years old, meat processor, his girl friend  Yrsa and Ingveldur Anna is 21 years old,\nwannabe lawyer, in university in Reykjavik. Siggi\u00b4s anchestors have been living\nhere past at least 200 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We run a small \u201egentlemans farm\u201c, we have 20 sheep\/ewes.\u00a0 We had hens but a mink got in to the hen house and killed them all. Then we have the cute, friendly, playful and clever dog Felix. His friend the cat Kisi also lives here, maybe not so “man-friendly” but he help us keeping the mice away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We run our own electricity station and produce electricity from the creek behind the house, to use for our house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer we have a big cabbage garden and catch trout in the lagoon below\/south of the farm. In the summer we can always give you lettuce from the garden.\u00a0 And if you\/we are lucky fisherman, you can get trout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can hear\nthe sound of the waterfall when you wake up in the morning, also the birdsong, the\ngeeses \u201etalking\u201c together, below, on the lagoon, the wind blowing, and the\nsheep calling their lambs (depends on what season there is).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The buildings:<\/strong>
\n\u201eThe Garage\u201c<\/strong> is an old garage on our\nfarm.  It was built in the 1940\u00b4s and\n1950\u00b4s in two parts.  The man whom built\nit was Siggi\u00b4s grandfather and his foster son Axel. In Axel\u00b4s room, Axel had his\nprivate store for his things.  \u201eThe\nhenhouse\u201c name is because we had our hens once in a small room behind the wall\nthere.
\nWe didn\u00b4t use the garage anymore so we decided to rebuild it as studio\napartments.  The interior is modern, rustic,\ncountry style. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe cowhouse\u201c<\/strong> – Autumn 2016 we decided to rebuild the cowhouse and did it in the winter 2016-2017.\u00a0 The interior is modern rustic. The cowhouse was first built 1964 and was then a very modern and big one, even with a milking pit.\u00a0 Siggis family and we ran a dairy farm until the year 2000, since then our neighbor rented the cowhouse for his cattles.
When the cowhouse was built 1964 the head carpenters name was Haraldur, a very good carpenter.\u00a0\u00a0 When he was young he fell in love with a girl whom finally rejected\u00a0 him, then he decided:<\/p>\n\n\n\n