I arrived at the house at about 8 this morning. I knew I needed to get here early because we had a new container scheduled for delivery and they were also picking up the old one which meant I needed to get here early to get the remaining complete bricks out of the container and […]

My oh so wise friend Katie wrote to me and said: As for what they did with the floors that left the orange smell.. they probably oiled them. They seem like they would be rather old floors, and sometimes wood – needs a drink.. lets just say that the orange stuff is like Body Butter […]

Things are progressing nicely in the new kitchen. The stairs are fully formed, about half of the pile of estrich is now on the floor which essentially means that about half of the floor is finished. I don’t envy these guys with this job. It is very hard work which they have to do by […]

As you can see, the trees and flowers here have no clue what season it really is. Our roses are blooming although it’s December, a lot of the trees are budding and I’m guessing that should we finally get some winter weather and snow here, they will be even more confused than ever. But if […]

Today has been quite a day and from the start it just felt a bit off. I guess I probably should have just gone back to bed but somehow it didn’t seem like it would be all that bad until the day progressed….actually, I guess it kind of started last night when I was eating […]