Huberhof

We arrived home safe and sound on Friday evening. We had a good flight but were very glad to get back into familiar territory. We could read the signs, know the territory, went in and ordered food that   we knew and could read the menu!!!  We are still getting back to "reality".

I will continue to post, because the story isn't finished yet. So continue on the journey with me and I'll tell you more of our stories!

Mennonite Church

Friday, the 28th of Sept. found us meeting with another guy that was recommended to us. His name is Hans Peter Reidiger. He pastors a Mennonite church of about 125 people. We met him at the church and were able to get on the internet in his office to let people know that we were OK, just didn't have internet access until then.

Hans Peter showed us around the church and the community. We went to have lunch at a Globus store. We got lunch and he helped Mearl get another phone so we would at least have access to people again. A very comforting feeling for us, it's extremely hard to be in a foreign country with no way to contact anyone! But also had to think, we were fortunate, we live in a time that we have all these conveniences! We were in business again!!!

Inside of the church

Hans Peter then led the way to the Huberhof farm. It's kind of a village and has it's own sign. We thought that some of the Krehbiel's might have lived in this area but the folks there did not know of any Krehbiel's that were living or had lived there. We were glad to see this area, although, it might not have much to do with our history. I thought it was probably pretty typical of a farm that the family might have lived at. 

A few of the approximately 400 sheep

A burro ??

They had a lot of sheep. They told us that they kept the new lambs and ewes in the barn until the lambs were about 2 weeks old and then they moved them out in the field.

I believe that they got some of their bucks from New Zealand. This was a big sheep farm.

The owners, Hans Peter and Mearl

The front of the house faced away from the road

This burro (?) was in the barn but there was another one that I saw out in the pen beside the barn.

We could see the big, wrapped, round bales out in the field. The man was bringing them in with a tractor.

Saw tractors in the barn as well.

This was the side that faced the road

The dogs are caged in front of this building. Look at the
 vines/flowers on the building.

The flowers here were beautiful!!!

The owners told us that they were getting ready to retire and one of their sons was going to take over the farm. One of their sons and his wife and two little ones came while we were talking with them. The wife could speak a little English. These folks also had some dogs that were trained to work with the sheep. I asked Hans Peter to tell the wife that I grew up on a farm that also had sheep. We could have shared together but I couldn't speak her language. 

The flowers at Huberhof were beautiful. This was typical of the homes that we saw all over. They put flowers anywhere and everywhere. We think this saved them from mowing their lawns!!!  

If you look real close, you'll see the wind turbines in this photo.
I was standing in the drive of Huberhof and turned and looked
across the field. We saw a lot of turbines in Germany. A little
of the old and some of the new.

This is one of our adventures, meeting another family and Hans Peter. Hans Peter left us and we went on to look at other areas.  More to come!

Thanks for journeying with us.

Sharon (Grabill) McMillan