What Ayla’s been up to

A post about Ayla is LONG overdue. I can’t believe our last post was almost two months ago and that wasn’t even a personal one…but hopefully we’ll do at least a little bit better in the next couple of months. 😉 There’s a few reasons we...

A verdict on the Canine Cooler

I picked up Ayla’s two Canine Cooler beds on Friday and just haven’t gotten around to posting about them yet…but here goes. We’ve only opened the large bed so far because the smaller one is actually intended for my truck so we can travel with...

Let there be cold

As many of you know, we live on an old farm here in Germany, built in 1834. Air conditioning is not really big in Germany and only available in newer homes. Having gone from Newf friendly weather in the high 50’s last week to the high 80’s today. Tomorrow...

New plants & decor for the courtyard :-)

Yesterday during our visit to Rüdesheim we wandered by a pretty good wine store called Dr. Nagler. We’ve bought many bottles of their Reisling over the past few years and also ate at their restaurant over Christmas. Very decent food and not bad prices either,...

We love our new freezer trunk

We bought a new freezer trunk earlier this week and are currently completely in love with it. We went shopping yesterday to start filling it up and of course because we have houseguests coming this weekend. They won’t all be staying here which takes some...