It is now officially freezing in Germany. I don’t mean that figuratively but literally. When I let Ayla out to go pee this morning, she walked out onto the grass and looked around herself, wondering what that strange crunching sound was. 🙂 Since she was born in February, this year will be her first interaction […]

Today the contractor is coming to finish up our bathroom. The original plan was for him to arrive at about noon but because they are warning about the possibility of snow and freezing temps in many parts of Germany, "Macky" called and said he wanted to get in there earlier to finish things up. More […]

“Macky,” our general contractor, arrived at 8 am this morning with 2 other crew members so they could begin working on the bathroom. Hubby was already at the home improvement store to pick up our new toilette and a few other things we realized we needed along the way. Since our paint stripping project on […]

There are many, many wonderful people in this world who dedicate their hearts, souls, time and lives to helping animals in need. These are not just the workers at local animal shelters but rather those who take in pets who have become “problem” animals or simply could no longer be housed by their current families. […]

We spent a majority of the weekend working at the new farmhouse, cleaning out all the trash we made when we more or less destroyed our bathroom last weekend and starting to throw away some of the scrap wood which was piled up in the barn. Ayla always seems to sleep for hours straight when […]