He’s a very helpful guy

This morning, I had my first opportunity to talk with our neighbor who lives right next to us in the timber-frame house which has basically been condemned by the historical society. Well actually, they don’t live in the house (since from the looks of things it...

The trash saga continues

I think I mentioned in a previous post that the trash collection situation here in Germany is a bit crazy and requires that we have 4 different garbage cans (paper, biodegradable waste, garden cuttings and regular trash) along with the yellow sacks for plastic &...

The last of the containers for a while

As I sit here, they are finally picking up the last container we will have for the winter. Since we’re done with the construction for the time being, we’re not going to order another trash container until the weather gets nicer. That way we can clean out...

Macky’s back to finish a few things up

We talked to Macky yesterday to let him know that our sink cabinet had finally arrived and that we’d like him to come by when he had to set it up, finally move the connection for the dishwasher so that we can move the kitchen cabinets back and get the counter...

Developments from the weekend

Hubby tends to take over blogging responsibilities during the weekend by hijacking the laptop so we forgot to mention a few things as we randomly posted blogs yesterday. Saturday was a pretty good day for us. We went to IKEA in the morning and finally managed to get...