About two weeks ago, Ayla managed to break the baby gate which restricts her from the kitchen and office. The office thankfully has a door of its own but there are no other doors blocking the rest of the rooms from Ayla. We once had a door where the baby gate is but it just […]

We thought for the past week that Ayla must be having a growth spurt or something. She’s been quite aggressive and basically just wouldn’t leave us alone. It wasn’t matter of wanting to be around us, more that she just didn’t want us sitting still and she would nip at us all the time. If […]

Although we have made some progress in the garden over the past month or so, we still have a whole lot of work to do. We thought we would post a quick video update just to let you see what we have done and how some of the plants are coming along in the greenhouse […]

There is no need for panic. We haven’t personally been attacked. But our swallows have. We have 7 nests around the courtyard. A majority of them are in a covered pass through which we never have open. Two more are over in front of the horse stalls and what will someday be the wine cellar. […]

I’ve actually been wanting to do this for a while because I love reading the searches that lead to places like Nanook’s blog but I just haven’t gotten around to it… Today I am couch-bound because I had dental surgery yesterday and am not really in any shape to be doing a lot of work…but […]