This time next week, we will already have been on the road for a while, headed to Locarno, Switzerland. I think we’re all really looking forward to the trip now although it will be interesting to see if any of us still remember how to climb since it’s been nearly a year since we last […]

Yes, it’s that time again. We are having the bio container picked up today and they are bringing us a new miscellaneous trash container. I have to say I’m rather pleased since we already have a pile of stuff in the barn that we will be targeting along with the bird cages. We’re probably going […]

This morning I’ve been doing some cleaning up and preparing for tomorrow evening since a friend is coming over and I can’t have the house covered in dog fur. Most of the cleaning will be done tomorrow since I would very likely have to vacuum all over again tomorrow with Ayla tracking in dirt and […]

Here’s a fun little tool we came across on RemodelingMySpace.com – a cost estimator for common projects around the house. Unfortunately for us it will only give us a vague idea since we’re not in the US, but we played with it a bit anyway. It turned up a price of $315 to paint our […]

As with many people who buy an old house or farm, we seem to have a limitless number of projects to be done at all times of the day and year. One of our tasks is to make the barn a bit more organized and at least to the point that we can walk around […]