Well, it's hard to believe it but we have had our farmhouse now for nearly a year. We wrote on August 17th, 2006, that we were going to closing...and although everything wasn't final until a few months later, we started cleaning out the house that same weekend. There...
A final day of doors…for a while anyway
I'm nearly uninspired to write about these doors and the trim but I figure at least I'm nearly done for now and perhaps writing about it will help me to forget it happened. It's not that the results are not worth it - they completely are. Although you may not be able...
Cool showers aren’t fun
We had a heater repairman come out this morning because our water heater has slowly been getting colder and colder. When we bought the house almost a year ago, the water from the tap was warm enough t make a cup of instant cappuccino. We could easily shower for 30...
Mommy’s little helper
Over the past few days I've been painting the doors inside our house and Ayla decided yesterday that she needed to help. I don't think it was really her main intention but she came in the house, leaned up against a door jam, froze in place when I told her to move,...
The chicken coop gets a new wall
Some are probably wondering where we disappeared to this weekend although we usually go pretty silent over the weekends and that's usually because we're working so hard. This weekend we decided to throw ourselves back into some work and started the to convert the...
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...
When it rains it pours…
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 house along with...
Let there be cold
As many of you know, we live on an old farm here in Germany, built in 1834. Air conditioning is not really big in Germany and only available in newer homes. Having gone from Newf friendly weather in the high 50's last week to the high 80's today. Tomorrow it's...
Regulated chimney sweeps?
I have to say that there are some things here in Germany that really perplex me. Today we had a visit from a chimney sweep who I guess is delegated to our area. Once a year they come around and check out the chimney, heater, etc. to make sure that everything is...
More clean up is complete
We had guests here this weekend which I've mentioned a few times. We decided on Thursday that it would be much nicer if the yucky yellow container was gone from the courtyard so we requested that it be picked up on Friday afternoon. But it was nowhere near full on...
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