We've been on vacation for the last week and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. No vacation can be completely without mishaps and ours certainly wasn't. Before we left last Thursday, we found out that a storm was hitting the coast of Holland where we were traveling. Since...
Anyone need a new buffet??
We are putting up this piece of furniture on freecycle for anyone who wants it. I know most people who read this blog aren't anywhere close enough to come get this piece of furniture but perhaps someone might be. At any rate, we wanted to give people from freecycle a...
Plenty of work going on here today
The electrician came out yesterday and before he arrived in the morning, Stefan wasn't really sure we had anything for him to do. But once the guy got here and we started talking to him, it became clear that we had more than enough work for him for the next several...
Please join us in welcoming Jake’s Chair
We have talked about Jake's Chair quite a few times on this blog, but so far there has been too much going on around here to take the time to actually build one. Now that construction of the guest house has kind of been on hold for the past two weeks we have finally...
It’s been really quiet from our side
So, many of you have been wondering where we've been since our posts just dropped off. As you might have guessed, we haven't been working on the farm but instead have been fighting off colds and recuperating from the work we did last week After finishing the ceiling...
Not much progress today
This morning we had to track down a package from LL Bean (a company which we really love) and unfortunately had to spend two hours in the customs office while they held our package hostage. FedEx has had the package for a month now and was actually going to ship the...
New toys for the woodworking shop
There was a high chance of rain in the forecast today so we decided to try out Jake's chairs finally and use it as a sort of test project. We have big plans to construct the bedroom furniture in our guest house so we wanted to start with something not so huge to see...
A scavenger’s delight!
Today is the local large trash pickup day which means that a lot of our neighbors piled up all sorts of furniture, beds, bits of building materials and anything else they no longer wanted on the streets last night so everything could be picked up this morning. Since...
The neighbors lose some charm…
Over the past week, we have been watching as our neighbors slowly but surely cover up half of the timber frame beams which face the alley running beside our house. It was a pretty cute house although they have done lots of modern improvement to it over the years (and...
Meeting more of the old timers
On Sunday mornings we like to take the dog on longer walks than usual. We take the day to let her romp around in the fields and to discover more of our new home. Today we took a dirt path which runs parallel to town and ends by an enormous farm. As we were following...


