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 […]

As many of you know, we live on an old farm here in Germany, built in 1834. Air conditioning is not really big in Germany and only available in newer homes. Having gone from Newf friendly weather in the high 50’s last week to the high 80’s today. Tomorrow it’s supposed to get even hotter […]

We started making our first batch of wine last week from some of the gooseberries in our yard. We stopped in Hornbach (home improvement store) really quickly, sort of by accident, because we knew there was an ATM inside the store and couldn’t seem to find one anywhere else. When we walked in the front […]

Nothing tragic, nothing tragic…but we did have a run in (quite literally) with a port-o-potty truck in our alley yesterday. One of our neighbors in the alley that run beside our house had a party on Wednesday night. Apparently they also had a port-o-potty for their guests to use (ick!) and they had it picked […]

I wrote in my post yesterday, Slug hunting with ammonia, that I had sprayed some of the plants and whatever slugs I found in the greenhouse yesterday morning with slugs. I did in fact do that and it wasn’t until Stefan came home in the evening and went to check on everything in the greenhouse […]