What’s going on…

As you can see, the trees and flowers here have no clue what season it really is. Our roses are blooming although it’s December, a lot of the trees are budding and I’m guessing that should we finally get some winter weather and snow here, they will be even...

No work today

So I just talked to our contractor and unfortunately his brother, who has been supervising and performing most of the work on our house lately while Macky himself works on another job site, is sick. So no one will be coming to work today. But the estrich (insulation...

A brick mission

Once they started removing parts of the walls & throwing them out, we realized that the walls are primarily OLD bricks which we will assume are from 1834 which is when the house was built. Not wanting to waste these or just let them get trashed, we started...

Here we stand on Friday morning

Well they’re done with knocking holes in our outside wall…at least for a little while. The next step for that wall will be putting in the windows and doors when they finally arrive in a few weeks.Apparently we’re probably going to need another trash...

Another big day for the bathroom

Today the contractor is coming to finish up our bathroom. The original plan was for him to arrive at about noon but because they are warning about the possibility of snow and freezing temps in many parts of Germany, "Macky" called and said he wanted to get...