Well, the first day is drawing to a close. We have made some progress already cleaning things up although we are no where near being able to let Ayla wander around freely yet. There is still too much trash around and there are piles of bird guano everywhere since no one has been cleaning up […]

Since there might be some who start reading this blog that we aren’t regularly talking with, we figured we should probably give a bit of background about what exactly is going on. The situation is as follows. We are buying an old farmhouse in Germany. At the moment, there is tons of stuff in the […]

Ayla gets to spend her first night in the new house tonight…and so do we. She & I arrived at the house at around 2 pm after I spent most of the morning trying to make sure I had everything with me that we’d need to work on the house for the next couple of […]

Well it’s practically official now…the doggo will be moving 😉 We probably still need to wait until October 1st to start full renovations but we have the keys and signed the paperwork so we are going to start the clean-up process inside this weekend with a few friends. Ayla will have her own pig stall […]

Today we are going to the notary here in Germany to close on the house. Everything won’t likely be totally final until October 1st because the heirs of the house (sellers) have some things they still need to take care of and we need to entered into the “Grundbuch” (the owners book for the property). […]