More tools for our workshop

    While visiting Stefan’s parents in Bavaria this weekend, we drove by their local home improvement store and saw that they had an electric angle grinder on sale for €12.95. We are going to be needing one of these when we take on laying the tile wherever we end up...

    More birds to love on

    The surviving swallow babies got off to a great start and have been flying like kamikazes all over the courtyard, dive bombing us and Ayla every chance they have. I thought that we were out of the woods as far as bird babies goes after that…but I was wrong. I...

    Hostages to the birds

    The surviving swallow babies got off to a great start and have been flying like kamikazes all over the courtyard, dive bombing us and the dog every chance they have. I thought that we were out of the woods as far as bird babies goes after that…but I was wrong. I...

    Keeping up with our wine collection

    One of our more major projects down the road will be constructing a wine cellar here on the farm. We are not avid wine collectors since most of our money goes into the house but we do enjoy good wines and are trying to learn all we can. We are lucky enough to live...

    We’ve been attacked

    There is no need for panic. We haven’t personally been attacked. But our swallows have. We have 7 nests around the courtyard. A majority of them are in a covered pass through which we never have open. Two more are over in front of the horse stalls and what will...

    Fabulous Farmhouse Searches Vol. 2

    Ok, I missed Thursday but I had a pretty good excuse…I had some dental surgery done yesterday and I wasn’t really feeling like blogging. I actually started this post early with thoughts that I might get around to it yesterday but it didn’t happen....