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 […]

Last year we went to Locarno, Switzerland, over the Easter holiday. We spent time in the midst of beautiful scenery and were really able to just relax and enjoy ourselves over the four short days that we were there. Before we left there, we said we wanted to make it a new tradition that we […]

I just realized that I left out one of our accomplishments from Sunday…in addition to all the moving around and cleaning that we did, we also put on about 10 handles in the kitchen. We actually made a template since we have a lot of drawers that are the same size and except for a […]