by Tiffany | Jul 21, 2008 | Homesteading Life
Well, everyone is in full savings mode with the price of gas going through the roof and we’re not much exception. We have cut back our spending in many areas and are using meal planning as one way to help us cut costs, but we’re doing other things as well....
by Tiffany | Jun 19, 2008 | Homesteading Life, House & Home
A bit late on the update but at least I’m getting to it sometime in the same month! On June 2nd, the wonderful workers showed up again to deal with our compost pile dilemma. On a farm, things like this are very common here – but apparently none of the...
by Tiffany | Jun 19, 2008 | DIY, Homesteading Life, House & Home
Once again I’m slacking. This past weekend we had a pretty big party here with a bunch of friends and family…it was a lot of work but thankfully also was fun – and will probably be the last of them for a long while. Yeah, we’ve said that...
by Tiffany | May 29, 2008 | Homesteading Life, House & Home
Today was supposed to be a very exciting day for us. When Stefan called to have the trash container picked up on Monday, he happened to ask them if they knew of a place that would take away the compost pile (“misthauf”) in our courtyard. It’s all...
by Tiffany | Apr 1, 2008 | Homesteading Life, House & Home
After a lovely couple of days in Italy (mostly the region around Venice), we got back here very exhausted and happy to be home. As it turned out, we must have been a bit more tired than we thought because on Monday (March 24th) we started out the door to take the...
by Tiffany | Mar 31, 2008 | Homesteading Life
We’ve been attempting to do some spring cleaning around here and get rid of some stuff that we haven’t looked at in over a year. Amazingly enough, there are a lot of things like that around here. A couple weekends ago we cleaned out our closets because...