Cool showers aren’t fun

We had a heater repairman come out this morning because our water heater has slowly been getting colder and colder. When we bought the house almost a year ago, the water from the tap was warm enough t make a cup of instant cappuccino. We could easily shower for 30...

The chicken coop gets a new wall

Some are probably wondering where we disappeared to this weekend although we usually go pretty silent over the weekends and that’s usually because we’re working so hard. This weekend we decided to throw ourselves back into some work and started the to...

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...

When it rains it pours…

Figuratively speaking, of course. Well it is actually raining a bit here today but more of a drizzle than “falling a flood” as we like to say in the South. We are having a housewarming party August 4th and have invited the family that used to own this...