Party planning & our food line-up

We’ve mentioned several times that we will be having a relatively large housewarming party which has had us a bit concerned and almost overwhelmed at times…but we are slowly but surely figuring it all out. Last Thursday we finally sat down and mapped out...

Every project has a practice project

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

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

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

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...