Latest developments
In the last few days and weeks, things have really been coming together on the house. Our contractor gave us the first of many bills and was so shocked that we paid him the following day, he promised us that instead of finishing the job in January, he will be doing everything in his power […]
Our living room floors
Before I know it’s a bit hard to see them but the floors where painted deep red in this room before. AfterAnd now they have been sanded down to their natural color and will be lacquered with a clear finish.
It’s Glühwein time…
Well, they’re back. It’s getting close to Christmas and the Christmas markets are everywhere. We went to our own tiny 6 hour market on December 2nd. We tried to take Ayla along but she was just too wound up and there were too many people for it to be fun. Some friends invited us to […]
Bowling with Emma
Seems that I write about my own personal injuries a lot more than I do about the dog’s…but I guess I’m just more fragile than she is. Hubby was home today because he has some nasty cold and I’m definitely hoping I don’t end up with it. He’s had it for a few days now […]
A brick mission
Once they started removing parts of the walls & throwing them out, we realized that the walls are primarily OLD bricks which we will assume are from 1834 which is when the house was built. Not wanting to waste these or just let them get trashed, we started collecting all the whole bricks we could […]
