You may notice an abundance of zucchini during the first few days of this menu list. That's because we have started getting some from our own plants and I actually bought some the other day in fear that ours wouldn't be ready. Doh. Plus I was asked by a neighbor if we...
Don’t you need to build a chicken tractor?
Now this is a cool concept! We would love to have chickens at some point, mostly for egg production but perhaps we might one day get tough enough to butcher the birds ourselves. But when you have your birds totally free range, there's the issue of finding the eggs,...
Got plans yet for the weekend??
Well, it's that time of year again. And if you happen to be in the Frankfurt area on Saturday or Sunday, you should make your way to our village where the 57th annual Laternenfest (Lantern Festival for those non-Germans) is going on!Every Saturday and Sunday evening a...
A few water saving tips we recently implemented
Well, everyone is in full savings mode with the price of gas going through the roof and we're not much exception. We have cut back our spending in many areas and are using meal planning as one way to help us cut costs, but we're doing other things as well. Not only do...
The compost pile is gone!
A bit late on the update but at least I'm getting to it sometime in the same month! On June 2nd, the wonderful workers showed up again to deal with our compost pile dilemma. On a farm, things like this are very common here - but apparently none of the people doing the...
Voila! I give you mud room & pantry!
Once again I'm slacking. This past weekend we had a pretty big party here with a bunch of friends and family...it was a lot of work but thankfully also was fun - and will probably be the last of them for a long while. Yeah, we've said that before, right? But now I...
We just THOUGHT we could get rid of this stuff…
Today was supposed to be a very exciting day for us. When Stefan called to have the trash container picked up on Monday, he happened to ask them if they knew of a place that would take away the compost pile ("misthauf") in our courtyard. It's all sitting in a hole off...
What do you mean the glass is green??
After a lovely couple of days in Italy (mostly the region around Venice), we got back here very exhausted and happy to be home. As it turned out, we must have been a bit more tired than we thought because on Monday (March 24th) we started out the door to take the...
Spring Cleaning Closets
We've been attempting to do some spring cleaning around here and get rid of some stuff that we haven't looked at in over a year. Amazingly enough, there are a lot of things like that around here. A couple weekends ago we cleaned out our closets because things were...
Finally meeting our hero – "The Guy"
Here in our little village, there are quite a few other timber frame houses, but few of them have been taken care of like ours. Some of them have recently have the timbers covered up because it was the cheapest option to repair them - and many (if not most) of the old...
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