As almost anyone who has ever owned a house (old or new) can tell you, it seems that there is a never ending list of things to do…and we are definitely no different. But it seems that each To Do List we compose ends up with a To Do List of its own. It’s a […]

We didn’t get anything done around the house this weekend because we weren’t here. But thankfully it will be a short week here as Thursday is a holiday here in Germany…and Stefan has taken Friday off just because he can. 🙂 We thought we would be having his ten year class reunion here this coming […]

This weekend was another big weekend for Ayla. On Friday we went down to Bavaria to spend the weekend with Stefan’s parents. His grandmother celebrated her 80th birthday on Saturday night which meant Ayla would have another chance to prove to them that she is indeed crazy. But as she often does when we really […]

Ok, so there are still a few small tasks to complete like building potting benches and we have to construct the upper windows still and attach those…but for all intent and purposes, the greenhouse is finished. We can move things in there if we want, especially after next week when we hope to finally get […]

In a few of my recent posts about the seedlings we have started for our garden, I commented that we ordered cheap, plastic pots from eBay because we couldn’t find any stores around us selling them…at least not the home improvement stores we frequent. Unfortunately, the pots took FOREVER to get here and we were […]