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 […]

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Today we where finally able to continue work on the greenhouse. And although we had some starting problems with the roof trusses not fitting we managed to completely frame out the entire greenhouse. When we had left off, we had completed the base and the two sidewalls and had built most of the roof trusses. […]

I’m sure this might seem absurd and perhaps even a bit frivolous…but if you know us, you know w love to go climbing. Unfortunately there are not many places close to us which allow us to do decent climbing. There is an indoor hall in Frankfurt but it’s always incredibly crowded and the routes are […]