I came across this article and it gave some simple but good reminders about taking an inventory of personal belongings for insurance purposes. We have an insurance policy for our belongings in an amount that we think would cover everything in the house…but we’re not really all that sure. We’ve meant to do a full […]

Macky is here today and I have to say that I really, really didn’t miss having contractors around. It’s not that he’s not a nice guy, it’s just nice to not have them hanging around, doing this or that and having to worry about the dust that is going to come from the work or […]

When we moved into this house, there was one of those huge exercises balls in the attic. We gave it to Ayla who absolutely loved it – especially when she was a puppy because she could sort of balance herself on the ball while she was laid across it and she could just barely touch […]

Sometime last week, Ayla started jumping up on the sofa with her daddy. It’s a big sofa so he let her stay up there…mostly because he’s just a sucker for her looks. 🙂 This was an on and off process. She wasn’t trying it every day but she was usually getting away with it…and she […]

This first photo is dated Summer 1941. You’ll likely notice the soldier there walking beside the horse in his German infantry uniform. If you enlarge the photo, there is another soldier standing on the left side in front of the wagon. I think (but it’s rather hard to tell) that the soldier on the ladder […]