Hostages to the birds

The surviving swallow babies got off to a great start and have been flying like kamikazes all over the courtyard, dive bombing us and the dog every chance they have. I thought that we were out of the woods as far as bird babies goes after that…but I was wrong. I...

Keeping up with our wine collection

One of our more major projects down the road will be constructing a wine cellar here on the farm. We are not avid wine collectors since most of our money goes into the house but we do enjoy good wines and are trying to learn all we can. We are lucky enough to live...

We’ve been attacked

There is no need for panic. We haven’t personally been attacked. But our swallows have. We have 7 nests around the courtyard. A majority of them are in a covered pass through which we never have open. Two more are over in front of the horse stalls and what will...

Road construction

Our house sits on a main street which connects several small villages to each other. There are other ways to get from A to B but going through our town is probably the easiest and fastest since we have very few traffic lights and they are rarely ever red. A couple...

Cooking made easier

I mentioned on Friday that we had called an electrician to come out and hook up the stove and oven as well as take care of a few other things around the farm. He was supposed to arrive at 3pm but actually didn’t make it here until almost 5:30pm. Not a huge deal...