Sometime during the day tomorrow, our new refrigerator will be arriving. We found a side-by-side we like for less than €1,000 which was generally our goal. As it turns out, it’s the cheapest and pretty much the one we liked the most anyway so we’re quite pleased. I don’t have a photo for you yet […]

It seems that around here there is a practice project for every one of our major renovation projects. For example, the lower wall by the front door is in dire need of new plaster. It’s a major project and of course very visible to everyone entering our house so we where a bit apprehensive to […]

Although we live only about 20 km outside of Frankfurt city (12 km from the city limits), we are generally in the middle of farming country. Our back-door neighbors are potato farmers along with many others in our town and there are also quite a few of them that farm grains as well. This past […]

I can’t believe I didn’t write about this sooner but I guess I’ve had other things on my mind… When Stefan’s family was here two weeks ago, his aunt brought us a lovely little fig tree. It has several figs on it and I would say that they are beginning to ripen as well….but I […]

I figure it’s about time for an update about the gooseberry wine we are attempting to create. In case you missed our first post, you can read it here. Did I mention we won’t be able to drink it for a year? Woohoo 🙂 Which is actually one of the reasons we are going to […]