So the neighbor came over last Saturday at 10 (he overslept and was supposed to be here at 8) and finished up the walls of the guest house. Read about him starting last Thursday here with previous photos. It's really looking good and now we just need to get out there...
I almost can’t bear to look…
All right...the time has finally come. I am posting pictures of the garden regardless of how painful or embarrassing it might be. Who knows...maybe it will motivate me to get something going back there.The garden does not look good. It's massively overgrown now and...
What the electrician has been up to…literally
Before Stefan's party, we decided we better have the electrician come out and get some of the lights working around here so we could actually see our guests during the birthday party. Plus all the wiring seems to be about 30 years old and is starting to deteriorate...
Just putzing around
Ok, in German "putz" is what you call the plaster or stucco you put on walls. So yeah, I'm just making a bit of word play. Call it your German lesson for the day.We asked one of our neighbors who happens to be a general contractor and painter if he would come by when...
The compost pile is gone!
A bit late on the update but at least I'm getting to it sometime in the same month! On June 2nd, the wonderful workers showed up again to deal with our compost pile dilemma. On a farm, things like this are very common here - but apparently none of the people doing the...
Voila! I give you mud room & pantry!
Once again I'm slacking. This past weekend we had a pretty big party here with a bunch of friends and family...it was a lot of work but thankfully also was fun - and will probably be the last of them for a long while. Yeah, we've said that before, right? But now I...
We just THOUGHT we could get rid of this stuff…
Today was supposed to be a very exciting day for us. When Stefan called to have the trash container picked up on Monday, he happened to ask them if they knew of a place that would take away the compost pile ("misthauf") in our courtyard. It's all sitting in a hole off...
Mud room + pantry update
Soooo, I mentioned that some progress had been made in the mud room recently...and that is definitely the case. When Stefan's parents were here, the guys hung up our cabinets from our first apartment here in Germany that we have lugged around from place to place for...
A progress report from 3 long days of work!
Well, it's taken a few days to recover but the marathon of work while Stefan's parents were here has come to a close for now. We still have a few other small project that we are working on (like the mudroom which I'll post about in a bit) but we accomplished some very...
More mud room love and the to do list
Way back in December (which now seems like years ago), we did a bit of drywalling in the mudroom to accompany the other chaos that was going on in our guest house. We'd gotten things to a mostly acceptable state in there, and just ran out of steam and time so we left...
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