Ok, in German “putz” is what you call the plaster or stucco you put on walls. So yeah, I’m just making a bit of word play. Call it your German lesson for the day. We asked one of our neighbors who happens to be a general contractor and painter if he would come by when […]

A bit late on the update but at least I’m getting to it sometime in the same month! On June 2nd, the wonderful workers showed up again to deal with our compost pile dilemma. On a farm, things like this are very common here – but apparently none of the people doing the actual work […]

Once again I’m slacking. This past weekend we had a pretty big party here with a bunch of friends and family…it was a lot of work but thankfully also was fun – and will probably be the last of them for a long while. Yeah, we’ve said that before, right? But now I think we’ve […]

I happened to ask Stefan this as well and within a few minutes he said, “Cocoa Puffs. They’re dark and sweet. It’s not a serious cereal which works cause she’s goofy. It just fits.” I have to say I agree. I have had this question sitting in front of me for a long time. At […]

Today was supposed to be a very exciting day for us. When Stefan called to have the trash container picked up on Monday, he happened to ask them if they knew of a place that would take away the compost pile (“misthauf”) in our courtyard. It’s all sitting in a hole off to the side […]