Our living room floors

BeforeI know it’s a bit hard to see them but the floors where painted deep red in this room before.AfterAnd now they have been sanded down to their natural color and will be lacquered with a clear finish.

It’s Glühwein time…

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....

Bowling with Emma

Seems that I write about my own personal injuries a lot more than I do about the dog’s…but I guess I’m just more fragile than she is.Hubby was home today because he has some nasty cold and I’m definitely hoping I don’t end up with it....

A brick mission

Once they started removing parts of the walls & throwing them out, we realized that the walls are primarily OLD bricks which we will assume are from 1834 which is when the house was built. Not wanting to waste these or just let them get trashed, we started...

Here we stand on Friday morning

Well they’re done with knocking holes in our outside wall…at least for a little while. The next step for that wall will be putting in the windows and doors when they finally arrive in a few weeks.Apparently we’re probably going to need another trash...