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 grains as well. This past […]
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 well….but I […]
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 a bunch of our […]
Cool enough for ya part 4!
Well, the Bauknecht/Whirlpool repair technician was just here and the verdict he delivered after looking at the fridge for about 15 seconds was devastating. This fridge has officially bit the dust. Because we have two compressors in the bottom, the freezer will continue to run, probably for another 10 years or more…but there is absolutely […]