It's Thursday again and time for more fun searches that led to this blog. We have some interesting one this week and thankfully no searches for the name Ayla...almost hard to believe really! best collars for newfies I find this to be a matter of opinion but I will...
We’ve sprung a leak
When we got up on Saturday morning, we noticed that a water stain had developed on the ceiling in the former dining room. This room is directly underneath the bathroom we had installed upstairs and the water stain is right underneath the shower. Stefan said that he...
Bring me a container so I can lay some bricks
Since we are planning to start at least a partial start on the horse stall build out next week while Stefan is on vacation, we will be getting another trash container. There is still bird housing in the horse stalls that needs to be thrown out and a feed trough in the...
From horses to house guests
For the past week or so we have been thinking hard and putting some of our ideas for the horse stall transformation down on paper. Unfortunately we haven't had much luck drawing everything out in Google SketchUp. As much potential as that program has, it really isn't...
A decorating idea straight from your garden
I found this idea while browsing some of my mother-in-laws old garden magazines and really thought it was a very nice idea for a summer party...and may have to use it for our housewarming party if I have the flowers and such around. What they've done is fill a bowl...
It’s a good thing we have a big place
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 planning but...
Gooseberry harvest & our first chili
Today we harvested gooseberries from the bush in our garden. It's amazing how much fruit was packed on this one bush. It's actually about 4 kilos (9 pounds) of berries so now we're trying to figure out what we will do with all this fruit. We don't eat too many...
Being accepted by the locals
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 the small...
Fabulous Farmhouse Searches Vol. 5
nespresso We just got a Nespresso Le Cube and we love it. We have avoided drinking a cup or five of espresso every night but absolutely love the convenience, easy clean up and easy of having a machine like this which uses little coffee tabs. And I think that when...
Self-Reliant Searches Vol. 5
This weeks list of searches will be a very short one. It seems that everyone is looking to build their own woodworking workshop and tons of the searches leading to us have to do with this subject. In addition we see a lot of people looking to build tomato stands and...


