With all these projects currently going on around the farm it’s easy to get lost in the process. We decided to prove how big of a geek we are and installed Microsoft Project to keep track of everything. This might be a bit of an overkill, but you can’t beat the features this software has […]

For almost a year now (since we started construction and put in the new windows and doors in the kitchen) we’ve had big gray areas on the walls of the house where everything was patched up. We’ve gotten so used to them we started to think it might look strange if they disappeared. And then […]

Yesterday we posted about our recent success while working on the exterior base wall of the main house. Today we planned to plug a few holes where some of the bird housing used to be…and since we’d have plenty of mortar left over from those places, Stefan planned to knock out the glass windows in […]

We got quite a few nice peppers from our cayenne plants despite not really giving much love or attention to them. We decided to harvest a few of the peppers before we went away last week and hung them up in our kitchen to dry. We tried a little piece of one of them in […]

As we mentioned earlier, we have been doing some work on the exterior wall of the main house (called the “sockel” in German) because it was starting to crumble a bit. It seems that our house was rejecting the modern metal framing the previous owner used to patch this wall in the past. This metal […]