Blog 2014-16: ankommen in Mechelsdorf

Yesterday was moving day: We took Frieda and Gretchen for a walk down the street to their new quarters in our garden. The barn is almost ready, merely the windows, doors and green roof are missing. The goats have now officially been confirmed for Tuesday, I can’t wait! Frieda should not be long anymore judging […]

Sometimes I forget that it’s only been 3 months since we moved here, I do get the impression that it’s been longer (in a good way), and that now and then makes me feel like some of our plans are not moving fast enough … Patience has never been a quality of mine, and I […]

We are growing at an incredible pace – there’s five of ‘us’ now, since we picked-up Frieda and Gretchen yesterday. They were both born in early 2013, but hopefully already holding precious little lambs in their woolly bellies – due March 2014. What an adventure: smuggling two sheep in the VW Caddy of Hannes’ mother […]

So what have we been up to since October when we first arrived? Where are the goats, where is the barn, where is the ice-cream machine? Well as usual everything is a bit slower and more complicated than expected, but then the nice thing is that organising all of this is our work for now, […]