by Tiffany | Jul 14, 2007 | Food, Homesteading Life, Pets, The puppy years (1-2)
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...
by Tiffany | Jul 12, 2007 | DIY, Homesteading Life, House & Home
I have to say that there are some things here in Germany that really perplex me. Today we had a visit from a chimney sweep who I guess is delegated to our area. Once a year they come around and check out the chimney, heater, etc. to make sure that everything is...
by Tiffany | Jul 8, 2007 | Homesteading Life, House & Home
We had guests here this weekend which I’ve mentioned a few times. We decided on Thursday that it would be much nicer if the yucky yellow container was gone from the courtyard so we requested that it be picked up on Friday afternoon. But it was nowhere near full...
by Tiffany | Jul 2, 2007 | Food, Homesteading Life
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...
by Tiffany | Jul 1, 2007 | DIY, Garden, Homesteading Life, House & Home
We intended to start removing bird houses from the horse stalls today but ran into some problems getting the shelving off the wall. The previous owner used some massive braces to support it and we couldn’t use the new angle grinder to cut it off because it made...
by Tiffany | Jun 29, 2007 | Homesteading Life, House & Home
Once again an empty container is sitting in our courtyard. It’s actually very hard for me to not go out there and start filling it up the second it arrives…but that’s not fair to Stefan who is still at work…and it’s looking like it will...