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Żegnaj lato. Witaj szkoło!

We bid summer farewell as we do each year with an end-of-the-summer BBQ with friends. The friends on the guest list change from year to year, but the venue stays the same – our barn. We talked about how…

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Fingers crossed and thumbs held

The exterminators were here a week ago. We are a couple of thousand zloty poorer and our house smells like chemicals, but fingers crossed and thumbs held*, let’s hope that it works. To recap, our house in the village…

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Inside and Out

I cannot concentrate on anything. Inside the house we are fighting an epic battle with korniki or some other kind of woodworm which is attacking our wood-framed house. If I were a religious person, I just might cross myself…

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Kids and life and stuff

Here’s how our village celebrated Children’s Day – a “bajkowe” welcome in the morning followed by a sport’s day at school. Here’s how we celebrated – homemade chocolate chip cookies.And to continue the American theme – hamburgers!Our village is…

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Christmas in the Village

We spent Christmas at our village house for the first time ever. It was fantastic. Rosie kept saying “this is our prawdziwy dom”. That’s exactly what I was thinking too. We were able to spend Christmas at our house…

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Shopping Madness

I have experienced the shopping madness which is IKEA Saturday morning one week before Christmas. Normally, I wouldn’t even go to IKEA on a normal weekend but circumstances were such that we had to go today. What circumstances could…

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Exposed Beams and other stuff

Here are some pictures for Olivia who is a fan of exposed beams. She and her family are also planning a move from Texas to Poland next year. Olivia, these beams are for you 🙂 Sorry about the crookedness.…

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Wiejski Dzień – A Village Day

What a wonderful day we had yesterday. Clear skies, a light breeze, wonderful. Today is a different story. We are considering building that ark. We entertained ourselves with various forms of doing nothing. Well, at least I did. There’s…

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Weekends

A Village Weekend Our house            A City Weekend The Zoo     A picnic in the park We all brought our tents Rosie’s counting…like this….Two, three, two, three, two, three. Szukam! Quick! Hide! Lizzie (in…

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Just found out I’m cool…

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/garden/21cold.html?ref=style …or maybe just cold, brrrr. It’s -17 ° Celsius right now (about 1°F). That’s cold. I had to go out and start up both cars. I pray that they will start up tomorrow. I ran across the article…