A scavenger’s delight!

Today is the local large trash pickup day which means that a lot of our neighbors piled up all sorts of furniture, beds, bits of building materials and anything else they no longer wanted on the streets last night so everything could be picked up this morning. Since...

The neighbors lose some charm…

Over the past week, we have been watching as our neighbors slowly but surely cover up half of the timber frame beams which face the alley running beside our house. It was a pretty cute house although they have done lots of modern improvement to it over the years (and...

Meeting more of the old timers

On Sunday mornings we like to take the dog on longer walks than usual. We take the day to let her romp around in the fields and to discover more of our new home. Today we took a dirt path which runs parallel to town and ends by an enormous farm. As we were following...

Grain harvesting time

Although we live only about 20 km outside of Frankfurt city (12 km from the city limits), we are generally in the middle of farming country. Our back-door neighbors are potato farmers along with many others in our town and there are also quite a few of them that farm...

Victims of a hit and run

Nothing tragic, nothing tragic…but we did have a run in (quite literally) with a port-o-potty truck in our alley yesterday. One of our neighbors in the alley that run beside our house had a party on Wednesday night. Apparently they also had a port-o-potty for...