Six years ago when we moved into the farm, we had some grand ideas for our wine cellar. We have a perfect space, virtually hidden within the barn, that is more or less a stone cave which keeps a relatively constant temperature and humidity level. And it’s more than...
More than a year ago, I wrote a post about 10 ways to get rid of excess paper in your life. Although I have gotten rid of something like 30 inches of paper in that time (from magazines to useless paperwork that was laying around, but not including all of the random...
It’s no secret by now that we are moving to Berlin and that we plan to move into an apartment in the city to do the whole “city living” thing for a while. It’s clearly a pretty major change of lifestyle for us (and some probably think...
We have had a couple of extremely productive days around here. We’ve built shutters for the guest house (which we’ve been meaning to do for a couple of years), we closed off part of the outdoor patio to make it look nicer (almost something we’ve...
As you’ve probably noticed lately, our mindset about clearing the stuff and junk out of our house that we haven’t been using at all in the last 6-10 years has really clarified. If you’d talked to us a few months ago, you would have found out that we...