This morning during our walk Ayla was having a great time amusing herself. We’ve gone from highs in the 90s and clear skies this weekend to rain, drizzle and highs in the 60s now – and of course Ayla is really enjoying it. She is going to be in great need of a bath very, […]

I’m going to try to go in some sort of order here but we’ll see how that goes. Actually, one of the first things we did was start throwing things away – but it’s hard to see the progress there…although we did trash about 3500 cubic feet (100 cubic meters) of random things from around […]

Well, it’s hard to believe it but we have had our farmhouse now for nearly a year. We wrote on August 17th, 2006, that we were going to closing…and although everything wasn’t final until a few months later, we started cleaning out the house that same weekend. There were moments of excitement and joy…and moments […]

Because of our housewarming party, we didn’t get to attend the festival on Saturday night. Some of our guests did go down to see the parade pass through though, which actually lasted about 2 hours and featured 25 organizations and 7 marching bands. The all came back totally excited about what they’d seen so we […]

Not much happens during the day on Saturday but since we were preparing for our own big party, we didn’t really notice. We ordered bread to serve at the party from our local bakery and picked it up on Saturday morning and you could see a bit of the party rush there, already. Most of […]