When we first started this whole renovation on the farm, we intended to build out the attic of the main house as well in the first round of improvements. But then we got the estimates and bills for everything else which was more important and realized it just wasn’t feasible right now. But as it […]

Macky is finally back and things are underway again. Apparently he had some problems of his own when he went home to Croatia over the holidays…the pipes in his house froze and burst so he was taking care of all that while he was gone. Not the way I’d want to spend my vacation but […]

So we decided to tear out the old floor from the former kitchen and will lay down new hardwood floors. Rather ambitious even for us but thankfully since my mom is here, we have a very good guide who can walk us through everything. Otherwise we’d have to be refiguring our budget again to find […]

Macky our contractor is now on vacation and it’s driving us crazy since we have a ton of things to get done before we move and the time frame is really running down. We have given notice on our house and need to be moved out by the end of January so it’s only a […]

Since New Year’s eve is tomorrow, we decided we would go on a mission into the Rheingau wine-growing region and see what we could find to accompany dinner and hopefully pick up some nice bottles of sparkling wine (sekt) as well. We did a bit of research online and found a place called Schönleber which […]