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...

    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...

    Back to the farm

    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...

    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...

    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...