With all these projects currently going on around the farm it's easy to get lost in the process. We decided to prove how big of a geek we are and installed Microsoft Project to keep track of everything. This might be a bit of an overkill, but you can't beat the...
Aren’t those gray patches supposed to be there?
For almost a year now (since we started construction and put in the new windows and doors in the kitchen) we've had big gray areas on the walls of the house where everything was patched up. We've gotten so used to them we started to think it might look strange if they...
Smashing glass is hard work
Yesterday we posted about our recent success while working on the exterior base wall of the main house. Today we planned to plug a few holes where some of the bird housing used to be...and since we'd have plenty of mortar left over from those places, Stefan planned to...
Cayenne harvesting
We got quite a few nice peppers from our cayenne plants despite not really giving much love or attention to them. We decided to harvest a few of the peppers before we went away last week and hung them up in our kitchen to dry. We tried a little piece of one of them in...
A new way to sling mud
As we mentioned earlier, we have been doing some work on the exterior wall of the main house (called the "sockel" in German) because it was starting to crumble a bit. It seems that our house was rejecting the modern metal framing the previous owner used to patch this...
It’s on…. a monster of a project is happening!
It has been pretty quiet for a while from us and if you read my last post about playing with chalk you know why. It's now official - Stefan is changing jobs and will have three months of vacation, starting this week. This means we will finally have time to start on...
New toys for the woodworking shop
There was a high chance of rain in the forecast today so we decided to try out Jake's chairs finally and use it as a sort of test project. We have big plans to construct the bedroom furniture in our guest house so we wanted to start with something not so huge to see...
Before and After: New Bathroom Upstairs
When we bought the house, there was only one bathroom indoors. We also have an outhouse in the courtyard but how practical is it to run outside in the middle of winter to do your business? Certainly better than nothing but still not a pleasant thought. The bathroom...
We’re up to no good with chalk
We haven't been posting much lately because we just haven't been doing much around the house. Stefan had been pretty burnt out from work so we haven't even been working on any little projects around the house. But we're going to make up for it now. Stefan is starting...
A scavenger’s delight!
Today is the local large trash pickup day which means that a lot of our neighbors piled up all sorts of furniture, beds, bits of building materials and anything else they no longer wanted on the streets last night so everything could be picked up this morning. Since...
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