Two Aquarius in the Alps

Following our dream to become self-sufficient, we are developing our garden project, planting many different vegetables, just to see what we can grow on our land. After so many years living in a flat, having a place where we can grow our food is a huge change and also a huge challenge to get used to all that hard physical work. :)

You know what it's like when you go to a garden center and see all these beautiful flower seedlings; you just can’t resist buying a few because you automatically imagine a spot in your garden where they will look great. Well … we are the same; we just love adding more flowers to our garden; the more, the prettier.

After installing the new windows last year, our old house renovation continues. Will the house collapse? We have to knock down a wall on the first floor, but it's a 40-year-old house, and we are not sure if the house construction is stable enough.

We have almost half a meter of snow after a very heavy snowfall. Yesterday it was snowing during the whole day, and it kept snowing at night. We had to make a way to our garden, cleaning lots of wet snow.

The property we bought in 2022 had a beautiful garden, many fruit trees, and lovely flowering shrubs. We first saw the property in spring, and it looked lush green. It’s a big piece of land, and we did not check the garden then as the grass was quite high.

We got the keys to our new home in the autumn of 2022. We stayed for two weeks, locked the house, and left. It wasn’t suitable for living, not even imagining spending the cold winter here. We had to return to our rented flat and start making plans for the house renovation.

Our new home is in a small village surrounded by a beautiful forest. It’s the first snowfall since we moved here, and we are going on a walk. Nature looks magical -trees covered with snow, a peaceful and quiet forest.

In autumn we planted some hardy vegetables and left them covered, hoping this will protect them during the cold days. Then we left the house and came back in January for some house reconstruction work.

Our dream about having a house in Slovenia started in 2009. At that time we used to live in Spain, and once, travelling across Europe, we took a wrong way and entered Slovenia. We actually did not realise where we were, so we had to check on the map what this beautiful place we were crossing was.