We are having a nice holiday time. Our friend Albert visited on Christmas Eve and he stayed through Boxing Day (2nd Christmas). On Christmas day we had a few presents under the tree to open, and new toys for the dogs to rip apart. Rob and Al made coq au […]

We had fun decorating the”Yule-tree”. We decided on a live one that we can put out in our garden. It’s a bit smaller than we usually do, but all the same fun. Jane the puppy is enjoying taking the ornaments off. I think she see’s it as a tree with […]

These are our happy friends enjoying the winter sunlight

Not many new photo’s to post. Here is Jane in her Madame Butterfly look.

We have 2 visitors for a week, a Jack Russell named Luna, who is Jane’s mother and, a chihuahua/pinscher named Pedro. Luckily all the dogs get along together and seem to be having fun. They live in Amsterdam and seem to really enjoy a bit of country living. We think […]

Here are some photo’s of the DeBuurtOp festival to celebrate 200 years of our village Andijk becoming independent by imperial decree of Napoleon on 1 January 1812. There were about 2,000 people in the neighbourhood enjoying theatre, music, art, games and a market themed on the history of Andijk. It […]

It’s hard to believe that it has been 10 years already. I think my Mom said it best when she gave us the print below at our wedding. On our actual anniversary night we had a quiet night making Coq/Thon au Vin together for a dinner party the next night. […]

I can’t even keep up with their antics now. I’ll just do some photo’s. And then…. Jane started her first heat at 7.5 months. It’s really hard trying to keep her and Jansen separated. We have Jane in the crate, but they keep trying to get at each other. I […]

After months of much rain we were finally able to get the brickwork painted on our house. It´s not complete, but almost — at least all the places you can see are done. It´s been a lot of fun working with our neighbour Caelen, who has done an outstanding job. […]

It’s fun as usual with 2 Jack Russell’s. They really play hard and rough now, and Jane keeps Jansen moving. Probably a lot more than he would like. They have also been helping us to paint our house (see Having fun painting the house). They are also a great help […]

Here I am, all excited because we finally have a wheelchair that I think I can get my head around and adjust/repair, so we don’t need to rely on others. I’ve read the manual umpteen times, checked out all the CAD drawings, swapped notes with knowledgeable people on forums, ordered […]

I was having a rather stressy time earlier today. The cable company was doing some repairs and our internet was down. This used to happen quite frequently, so I have a backup ADSL account. Feeling quite smug that I had a backup, I went to connect to it, and guess […]

We are having way too much fun with the critters. It’s really hard to get good pictures now because they are way to fast, and my camera and me, are way too slow.

This is a nice little film that gives a feeling for our little community here in Andijk. It’s about the preparations for a creative contest on the theme “Andijker mice” for the cultural festival that will be held on 22 September. It’s to celebrate 200 years of our village becoming […]

Humans were made to stand! We are really pleased with Rob’s new standing frame. It took us some time and work to get, but it was well worth the effort. He is using it 2 times a day and it is helping him to increase his balance and strength, and […]

It’s been busy around here. We’ve been trying to get a fence up in the back garden for about a month. It’s the other half of the fence we put up a few years back. We seem to do everything in stages. There have been a lot of delays, but […]

We think we have a solution Beyond all belief, it looks like the stars might be aligning so that we can get the wheelchair over. I am totally amazed and heartened at the generosity of people. Thank you all for your concern and help. I will keep you posted on […]

It’s so nice to see the same swan and duck families back again this year with their new broods. I’m really amazed that they want to hang out in front of our house, especially with the dogs terrorizing them. Maybe they are trying to teach their young what to stay […]