The Mouse Hunter

by | Apr 16, 2007 | Homesteading Life, Pets, The puppy years (1-2)

Although we’ve been trying to deny it, we have a small mouse problem here on the farm. Although we live in a small city (it’s more of a town really with a population of around 1000 people) and there are houses all around us, most of the farms are...

Lots of driving and walking

by | Apr 7, 2007 | Europe, Switzerland, Travel

We’re not really sure at the moment that Ayla is having all that much fun on this vacation so far. Yesterday we drove from Frankfurt to Locarno, Switzerland, which meant about 7 hours in the truck traveling. She’s always great during car rides but we could...

Going on vacation

by | Apr 5, 2007 | Travel

Ayla is going on vacation over Easter. We’re going to Locarno, Switzerland, to do some climbing, enjoy a bit of Italian atmosphere and hopefully some beautiful weather, too. We’re staying in a two-room apartment in the middle of the city which we stayed at...

It’s Glühwein time…

by | Dec 10, 2006 | Christmas

Well, they’re back. It’s getting close to Christmas and the Christmas markets are everywhere. We went to our own tiny 6 hour market on December 2nd. We tried to take Ayla along but she was just too wound up and there were too many people for it to be fun....