We've been busy, to say the least. Unfortunately not everything that has kept us busy has been related to the garden, farm or our self-reliant ways...but you have to pay the bills somehow :)We FINALLY finished the greenhouse this weekend. Well, we still need to build...
The plants are back in the ground
I'm going to try to catch up on a few LONG overdue posts so here's a start. 🙂 May 1st was a holiday here in Germany. Since S was out of town for business during the weekend, he decided to take Monday off so we would basically still have a weekend...and a very short...
In case you were wondering…
If you've started to wonder whether the "room which shall not be named" won the fight against the chaos; fear not - I did in fact win out! To see what the room looked like before, check out the pictures from my previous post. Below are a few photos of the state it's...
Mysterious radiators
This house always manages to keep up guessing. Just when we think we have something figured out and under control, we find that we really don't have a clue. Of course, since this is the first home we've owned and we are still learning to be "handy," everything can...
When will we ever finish the garden?
We have been spending a lot of time out back, behind the barn, in our vegetable garden lately and quite frankly we are beginning to miss working on the house. This weekend we have made good progress on the greenhouse, finally finishing all of the framing. Now all we...
Voting is officially open!
Yes, it's time for shameless promotion again...but we would really appreciate it if you'd go take a few minutes to vote for us. This is our first contest but we think our chances are pretty good. Please feel free to check out our competition...but we still hope you'll...
Building a greenhouse (part 3)
Today we where finally able to continue work on the greenhouse. And although we had some starting problems with the roof trusses not fitting we managed to completely frame out the entire greenhouse.When we had left off, we had completed the base and the two sidewalls...
More seeds planted and new arrivals
Yesterday was a pretty good day for deliveries. The new SD card for our digital camera arrived so there will once again be pictures...and our order from exoga also has arrived. I have to say I really love that place. I wish the SD card had been here already when the...
The white oleander
So we told you already that the white oleander "tree" is here already. I'm still wondering whether one would actually classify it as a tree yet? So maybe you can give me your opinions. I have to go with seedling at best.I have to say I'm still a bit disappointed by...
The room which shall not be named…
Unfortunately, S will be going out of town for most of the weekend. So I will be here with the fur-girls and we'll see what sort of things we can find to stir up trouble. I think I will be focusing a lot of time and energy on the dreaded extra room which has been...


