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Every project has a practice project

Jul 22, 2007 | DIY, House & Home

It seems that around here there is a practice project for every one of our major renovation projects. For example, the lower wall by the front door is in dire need of new plaster. It’s a major project and of course very visible to everyone entering our house so...

Grain harvesting time

Jul 19, 2007 | Homesteading Life

Although we live only about 20 km outside of Frankfurt city (12 km from the city limits), we are generally in the middle of farming country. Our back-door neighbors are potato farmers along with many others in our town and there are also quite a few of them that farm...
Our new fig tree and how to grow figs

Our new fig tree and how to grow figs

Jul 19, 2007 | Garden

I can’t believe I didn’t write about this sooner but I guess I’ve had other things on my mind… When Stefan’s family was here two weeks ago, his aunt brought us a lovely little fig tree. It has several figs on it and I would say that they...

Our venture into gooseberry wine

Jul 19, 2007 | DIY, Garden, House & Home

I figure it’s about time for an update about the gooseberry wine we are attempting to create. In case you missed our first post, you can read it here.Did I mention we won’t be able to drink it for a year? Woohoo 🙂 Which is actually one of the reasons we...

When it rains it pours…

Jul 19, 2007 | Homesteading Life

Figuratively speaking, of course. Well it is actually raining a bit here today but more of a drizzle than “falling a flood” as we like to say in the South. We are having a housewarming party August 4th and have invited the family that used to own this...