After the first 12 lettuce plants we had were promptly eaten by slugs as soon as they hit the ground, we have decided that we are not yet ready to give up. I mentioned before that we found some lettuce plants at Sunflower garden center two weekends ago and we have decided that instead of […]

The saga began yesterday but it’s far from over yet. We managed to get the little fridge inside from the barn and found that we apparently hadn’t de-iced the tiny freezer inside before moving it and the fridge was not alive with mildew. Just what we wanted to deal with. So out came the bleach […]

So I mentioned earlier this morning that we’re having problems with our fridge. I decided that the first step I would take in attempting to solve the dilemma would be to defrost the freezer. It was long overdue and I thought perhaps this might have something to do with the situation, that the condenser wasn’t […]

Our refrigerator is on the fritz. It’s not really been normal since we moved in January but now with it being above 90 on some days, it’s clear that the fridge is not performing like it should be. Overnight it gets down to the 60s and the fridge still doesn’t keep anything cold. In fact, […]

The past few days have been scorchers. It’s been well above 90 degrees and that’s not really normal for Germany…but thinking about the last few years and what the weather has been like, it’s hard to define “normal weather” anymore. The first few weeks of July we had lows in the 50s and highs in […]