Paint is almost dry

May I introduce - this is my frog villa :-)

Unfortunately winter came too early, the most dangerous part still has to be done. This is what it looks like from down the street now.

Many pictures after a long time...

Last weekend I celebrated my birthday the first time at my new house. It was important to me to have all family with me, especially my grandparents.

My 83 year old  grandma  (Mom's Mom) and my 99 year old granddad (Dad's Dad)

My granddad with my step-grandma hiding from too much sun

And the rest of the family with my step-Mom, Dad, my brother and my Mom

And since I had to clean my whole house before the family came to visit me I took it as a photo opportunity, so here are all my new rooms.

The living room from one side...

... and from the other side

My kitchen from one side...

... and the other side.

My home office, there are still lots of shelves missing, just can't seem to find the ones I like...

The big room in the middle, still don't know what to use it for  (besides placing a big party table when friends come over in winter time)

Going downstairs into the bathroom (do you remember what it looked like before with that "door" in the ground)

My bedroom from the one side (still lots of paintings missing, Mom)...

... and from the other side with the door to my walk in closet.

And here is an update from my yard, remember I planted a lot in spring time and at present harvesting time starts.

Tomatoes

Tomatoes

Tomatoes in the back of my house

Beans

Broccoli

Why are my pumpkins not growing like all the other stuff???

One of my 5 apple trees, what should I do with that many apples, amazing.
I have no clue why this picture appears like this, I swear I turned it left before uploacing.

Apples, apples, apples...

Bell Peppers

Hot Peppers - no clue what exactly they are, but they ARE HOOOT !

And the view is fantastic as always...

Yeah, we are almost there :-) This is only still a test...
Damn, I did also turn that photo...

Hope you like my update, I can slowly say: I AM HOME!

The color of my house

I still need to paint the outside of my house and I am unsure which color to chose. Help me pick my house color with the poll on the right side of this page.

This is what it still looks like.
Photo 1 taken from down in the garden, photo 2 is the side view.

And here come all possible colors that I am still thinking about:

1 - lime green

2 - opal green

3 - sunny yellow (think of the bugs!)

4 - violett

More to come, I am also still open for recommendations.

For the very artistic ones of you, feel free to download the 2 "now" pictures and send them to me with the new color that you painted the pic with.

I have a yard

After 6 weeks of hard work I finally can say that I have a yard. Rocki and I just love it.

Enjoy the new pictures and bookmark the link to my new blog: Flora and Fauna on the Bayreuther Oschenberg
In the new blog I will make pictures of all the nature growing and running through my yard long term. I am already curious how it will change from now within the next few centuries...

In this blog I will keep on documenting the renovation of my house - still a few things left to do...

A wonderfull sunny May morning

All the wood I collected for next winter

Don't I have wonderful wild flowers in my yard?
If you want to see more of them go to my yard blog

 

But some "wild places" still need some hand to look good.
On the hill directly under the house I am starting a rockery.

A Rainbow!
Enlarge this picture and search for it :-)

And here is the fantastic before - after picture of my yard - taken from the same window in the house:

Summer 2011

Spring 2012

Yard work - eliminating 50 years of old wood

After the most important task outside my house was done - the fence - the real yard work was finalized... The jungle I bought last summer had to go so I could see and walk through my yard.

... and this was all done within 4 days. My bones hurt, I got blue, purple and green bruises all over my body, skin is scratched all over from the thorns, I am sun-burned and my head still hurts a day after from the crop chopper...

Rocki still looking at the mess a day before we started chopping the cut off wood.

Getting the machine of hell into my yard.

Chopping, chopping, chopping....
This is my friend Helmut, but mostly I stood on the machine and Helmut getting the sticks ready for me.
We needed 20 liters of gas within 4 days of running this thing as long as it was daylight.

Getting better on top, but not started further down...

Rocki made a nest looking at the working crew.

Before - there are actually surprises under the wood stacks.

This was after the stack was gone. Sad, but tulips time is almost over anyway.
Welcome back next spring!

You could sense that there was something build under the old wood and so this littly very old pool suddenly was there.
You can actually see my house from the yard now, and no stacks of old wood any more (at least at the top).

 We actually finalized all wood piles within 4 days, including Sunday and a Holiday. My neighbors hate me now, but hey, that happens once in 50 years :-)
Still some cleanup tasks needed, but now I and especially Rocki can actually use our yard (me at least in a few days when I can walk or lift my arms again :-)

Need to relax now :-)