Jul 19, 2007 | Homesteading Life
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...Jul 19, 2007 | Homesteading Life
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...Jul 14, 2007 | Food, Homesteading Life, Pets, The puppy years (1-2)
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...Jul 12, 2007 | DIY, Homesteading Life, House & Home
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...Jul 8, 2007 | Homesteading Life, House & Home
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...Jul 2, 2007 | Food, Homesteading Life
We bought a new freezer trunk earlier this week and are currently completely in love with it. We went shopping yesterday to start filling it up and of course because we have houseguests coming this weekend. They won’t all be staying here which takes some...