Jul 1, 2007 | DIY, Garden, Homesteading Life, House & Home
We intended to start removing bird houses from the horse stalls today but ran into some problems getting the shelving off the wall. The previous owner used some massive braces to support it and we couldn’t use the new angle grinder to cut it off because it made...Jun 29, 2007 | Homesteading Life, House & Home
Once again an empty container is sitting in our courtyard. It’s actually very hard for me to not go out there and start filling it up the second it arrives…but that’s not fair to Stefan who is still at work…and it’s looking like it will...Jun 29, 2007 | Blogging, Homesteading Life, Money
I’m a day late…I know. I wasn’t really inspired by the searches when I started looking at them on Wednesday. Then I had to take Ayla to the vet because she was limping but so far things seem to be ok with her. So it’s Friday again and my body...Jun 24, 2007 | Decorating, Entertaining, Expat Life, Homesteading Life
We are starting to plan the first somewhat major party to be held at our home in the next year or so. We had Stefan’s 10 year high school class reunion here – but that turned out to be about 10 people including us. That party did require a little bit of...Jun 22, 2007 | Expat Life, Homesteading Life, Travel
Stefan and I were out walking the dog yesterday evening and one of the locals from town rode up on his bicycle behind us. The two of us were talking and didn’t hear him come up behind us…and we were walking side-by-side with the dog taking up the rest of...Jun 20, 2007 | Homesteading Life, House & Home
There’s a houseblog called Brooklyn Rowhouse that I love to read when I have the chance. Steve, the blog owner has done some amazing woodworking projects in his house. He recently posted about cleaning up his workshop after doing 9 months worth of projects and...