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CogDogBlog's House Sitting Wonderland

We did a little house sitting ourselves recently, but nothing like this. The blog of geologist/ technology guru/ photographer, Alan Levine, documents his recent experience of house-sitting for a friend of a friend, an Icelandic architect...

 
 

For a month, Levine lived and worked in solitude from this home 90 minutes from Reykjavik:

The owner is an architect and designed this modern place. It sits atop a field with a sweeping view of land they own, including a horse pasture with 18 horses. One of my jobs is to look out the binoculars from the living room and make sure there are 18 and they are grouped together. His other job was to care for the owner's cute-as-a-button Iceland sheep dog, Skinna.

What an incredible experience! He must have been pinching himself every day just to be sure it wasn't a dream. Read all about Levine's housesitting adventure in My November Office View on his blog, CogDogBlog.

Comments (8)

Best office EVER.

posted by EasilyAmused on April 3rd 2009 at 2:39pm
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This doesn't look like any house I've ever had to housesit...damn it.

Ashley
http://rainycitystyle.blogspot.com

posted by RainyCityStyle on April 3rd 2009 at 3:02pm
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This is my dream housesit. Heck, this is my dream anything.

posted by rosenatti on April 3rd 2009 at 3:05pm
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I feel peaceful just looking at these pictures.

posted by heather77 on April 3rd 2009 at 3:24pm
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How does one get a house-sitting gig like this?

posted by ange_lune on April 3rd 2009 at 3:29pm
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One moves to Iceland.

posted by KateMick on April 3rd 2009 at 3:41pm
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It's all good until you find out what you're supposed to do when there are less than 18 horses in the pasture...

posted by LilyC on April 3rd 2009 at 7:37pm
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I love those rugged-looking little horses...

posted by gryt on April 4th 2009 at 11:33am
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