We’ve been busy, to say the least. Unfortunately not everything that has kept us busy has been related to the garden, farm or our self-reliant ways…but you have to pay the bills somehow 🙂 We FINALLY finished the greenhouse this weekend. Well, we still need to build some tables and things like that in there, […]

I’m going to try to catch up on a few LONG overdue posts so here’s a start. 🙂 May 1st was a holiday here in Germany. Since S was out of town for business during the weekend, he decided to take Monday off so we would basically still have a weekend…and a very short work […]

If you’ve started to wonder whether the “room which shall not be named” won the fight against the chaos; fear not – I did in fact win out! To see what the room looked like before, check out the pictures from my previous post. Below are a few photos of the state it’s in now. […]

This house always manages to keep up guessing. Just when we think we have something figured out and under control, we find that we really don’t have a clue. Of course, since this is the first home we’ve owned and we are still learning to be “handy,” everything can turn into a major thing… Downstairs […]

We have been spending a lot of time out back, behind the barn, in our vegetable garden lately and quite frankly we are beginning to miss working on the house. This weekend we have made good progress on the greenhouse, finally finishing all of the framing. Now all we need to do is build the […]