Earlier this week, I was inside working in the office when Ayla started barking. We’re trying to make sure that she doesn’t develop any boundary protection issues like some of the other dogs in the neighborhood so I went to inspect if there was a reason for the barking or if she’d taken a disliking […]

This morning, I had my first opportunity to talk with our neighbor who lives right next to us in the timber-frame house which has basically been condemned by the historical society. Well actually, they don’t live in the house (since from the looks of things it is only full of scrap wood and otherwise unfinished) […]

I just spent the last 2 1/2 hours cleaning the downstairs level of our house which was not all that much fun. Vacuuming, mopping the wood floors and starting to mop the kitchen…plus dusting a few areas that were really in dire need of help. And that’s about it. Upstairs will still need to be […]

It looks like Ayla will get to have a reunion with her fur-mommy and fur-sister this weekend. The breeder is supposed to come by with them and drop off her registration papers as well. We haven’t gotten the papers before because for the first few months there was an ongoing process of sending the papers […]

I think I mentioned in a previous post that the trash collection situation here in Germany is a bit crazy and requires that we have 4 different garbage cans (paper, biodegradable waste, garden cuttings and regular trash) along with the yellow sacks for plastic & packaging. It’s not really all that complicated although you do […]