In case you are keeping up with me today – the certificate from IKEA has been found. I apparently stuck it in one of the bins under my desk at some point and thankfully it didn’t migrate from there. I only had to go through the trash first which I thankfully haven’t emptied in here […]

It’s been a few weeks since our last trip to IKEA and there isn’t really anything we must have from there right now…but when we bought our kitchen they had a special program going because a tax increase was going into effect here in Germany. This allowed us to get a 3% rebate from the […]

Our Italian tile and granite guy, Dino, came over this morning to measure the kitchen cabinet surface so we can finally get our order sent out to Italy….once we decide what to do on the wall behind the counters…which I will discuss later. Dino brought a contractor friend of his along who more or less […]

For weeks (well even months now since we’ve been living here two months already) we have been talking about getting curtains to put back in the bathroom downstairs. There were once lace curtains which hung on the window itself so they wouldn’t interfere when the window needs to be opened. We took the curtains down […]

We have recently found out that there are quite a few areas around our town that are restricted during certain parts of the year because they are bird sanctuary areas and they don’t want anything disturbing the birds during mating season. Unfortunately for us, most of the area where we normally walk Ayla is protected […]