I received an email the other day which shared a story used by Dr. Stephen Covey (author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People) in his seminars. I found the message so important that I thought I would kick off my contributions again with it: I attended a seminar once where the instructor was lecturing […]

On the same day that Ayla showed us that she is an environmental doggie, she also got to meet a fun little puppy. Usually Ayla was the one terrorizing older dogs when she was little…this little guy was acting just like her, thinking he was the big dog on the block. It was quite amusing […]

A couple weekends ago, we took Ayla with us down to Munich where a couple friends of our were celebrating moving into their new place. It just so happens that in their back yard is a stream which we decided Ayla just had to play in. She is a water dog, you know. 😉 While […]

Well, it’s taken a few days to recover but the marathon of work while Stefan’s parents were here has come to a close for now. We still have a few other small project that we are working on (like the mudroom which I’ll post about in a bit) but we accomplished some very big tasks […]

Way back in December (which now seems like years ago), we did a bit of drywalling in the mudroom to accompany the other chaos that was going on in our guest house. We’d gotten things to a mostly acceptable state in there, and just ran out of steam and time so we left things the […]