Dealing with this hot weather

    Jul 17, 2007 | Expat Life, Pets, The puppy years (1-2)

    The past few days have been scorchers. It’s been well above 90 degrees and that’s not really normal for Germany…but thinking about the last few years and what the weather has been like, it’s hard to define “normal weather” anymore....

    Being accepted by the locals

    Jun 22, 2007 | Expat Life, Homesteading Life, Travel

    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...

    Internet complications

    Jun 19, 2007 | Expat Life

    After reading our Back from the weekend post, you may be wondering why I didn’t post all this info on Sunday. I actually would have loved to do that except our Internet was dead. We’ve been having problems off and on lately and were getting dropped during...

    Going to see the grandparents

    Jun 13, 2007 | Expat Life, Pets, The puppy years (1-2)

    I mentioned this before but we will be going out of town for a few days tomorrow. We’re going to visit Stefan’s parents and celebrate his birthday as well as his father’s (and my mom’s birthday is also this weekend!) Ayla will be spending her...

    The shopping is complete

    Jun 8, 2007 | Expat Life

    As I mentioned in my post yesterday, we have a lot planned for this weekend. This morning we left the house at about 8:30am so we could start the shopping. We managed to get almost everything we needed from the local home improvement store, excluding the pots we need...