So far, everything is still thriving in the greenhouse and our tomatoes are now showing some massive signs of life. Here's a general view when you glance in the direction of the tomatoes....As you can probably notice (click on the image to make it larger), we have...
The chicken coop gets a new wall
Some are probably wondering where we disappeared to this weekend although we usually go pretty silent over the weekends and that's usually because we're working so hard. This weekend we decided to throw ourselves back into some work and started the to convert the...
Party planning & our food line-up
We've mentioned several times that we will be having a relatively large housewarming party which has had us a bit concerned and almost overwhelmed at times...but we are slowly but surely figuring it all out. Last Thursday we finally sat down and mapped out what we...
Every project has a practice project
It seems that around here there is a practice project for every one of our major renovation projects. For example, the lower wall by the front door is in dire need of new plaster. It's a major project and of course very visible to everyone entering our house so we...
Grain harvesting time
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...
Our new fig tree and how to grow figs
I can't believe I didn't write about this sooner but I guess I've had other things on my mind... When Stefan's family was here two weeks ago, his aunt brought us a lovely little fig tree. It has several figs on it and I would say that they are beginning to ripen as...
Our venture into gooseberry wine
I figure it's about time for an update about the gooseberry wine we are attempting to create. In case you missed our first post, you can read it here.Did I mention we won't be able to drink it for a year? Woohoo 🙂 Which is actually one of the reasons we are going to...
When it rains it pours…
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 house along with...
Let there be a lettuce fest!!
After the first 12 lettuce plants we had were promptly eaten by slugs as soon as they hit the ground, we have decided that we are not yet ready to give up. I mentioned before that we found some lettuce plants at Sunflower garden center two weekends ago and we have...
Is it cool enough for ya?
Our refrigerator is on the fritz. It's not really been normal since we moved in January but now with it being above 90 on some days, it's clear that the fridge is not performing like it should be. Overnight it gets down to the 60s and the fridge still doesn't keep...
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