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  • Tips for pet owners when hiring a pet sitter

    by Birgit

    Give clear instructions in print AND digital format, do NOT rely on spoken instructions (nor digital) alone. Ensure that both you and the petsitter have a physical copy to refer to (click to read more)

    August 9, 2019
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    house sitting, housesitting, Oakland, over7seas, petsitting, San Francisco, Travel
  • Project German – American Citizenship / Projekt Deutsch – Amerikanische Staatsangehörigkeit

    by Birgit

    Ahoi, ich bin die Birgit und ich lebe zweisprachig. Hey, my name is Birgit and I live a bilingual life. Ich wohne zur Zeit in Amerika aber fühle mich gleichzeitig Deutsch, das wird sich niemals ändern. Dennoch habe ich durch meine Beziehung auch eine starke Verbindung zu den Staaten. I currently live in America but I simultaneously identity as German and that won’t ever...

    February 19, 2019
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    California, English German Bilingual, journal, Kalifornien, over7seas, writing, Zweisprachige Texte
  • Big Sur Roadtrip

    by Birgit

     • The effects of a wildfire most likely caused by an illegal campfire that was poorly extinguished. These photographs are from our drive back to Carmel, near the Highway 1 which I just see now in the news is closed due to the Soberanes Fire which has been raging for about 2 weeks now. It had just started when we visited Big Sur for...

    August 9, 2016
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    California, journal, over7seas, photography, Travel
  • Where can we go from here?

    by Birgit

    Our housesitting appointment is drawing to a close at the end of the coming week. We by chance got asked to take on another house-pet-sitting gig from the 1st – 4th of August and I said yes minutes before I found out that we likely have lost the (stationary) RV that we were schedule to move into that weekend. So that was a lucky...

    July 19, 2015
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    California, journal, Life, over7seas, petsitting, San Francisco
  • Housesitting in San Francisco : View from Bernal Heights today

    by Birgit

    We are housesitting in San Francisco. The way this works is that we got connected with a family who went to visit family on the East Coast and needed somebody (us) to look after their cat, dog, home and plants during their absence. In exchange for our reliable housesitting duties we stay here free of charge. It is a fair exchange of our time for...

    June 16, 2015
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    over7seas, petsitting
  • Surrounded by teachers in Northern Thailand

    by Birgit

    Suddenly I find myself surrounded by teachers. (I trust you know how hard it is to find them when you are looking for a single one… now I need almost a whole hand to count the sudden influx). It never rains but it pours, right? And each one feels like a relationship of trust. {You know the stories of how I started 3 different...

    January 23, 2015
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    Holistic & Health, over7seas, Thai Massage, Thailand
  • When the dog and I saved a baby groundhog on Land’s End Trail, San Francisco

    by Birgit

    We are house sitting in San Francisco, pretty close to Land’s End Trail and with that pretty close to the edge of the world, or so it feels. The air is amazing here, the silence only broken occasionally by soft voiced fog horns. On a recent walk with the dog that came with the house, dog and I discovered a Groundhog laying in shock,...

    July 11, 2014
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    animal portraits, California, Life, over7seas, petsitting, San Francisco, Travel

Recent

June 17, 2022

Losing my home aka The Move or ‘What if?’

After the first 3 emotional updates I wonder if I am ready to accept the situation and begin to...

by Birgit
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June 17, 2022

Dear Fanchon Fröhlich

Dear Fanchon, I continue to think about you long after you have gone. Your company, art, book collection, inspiration...

by Birgit
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June 13, 2022

Losing my home part #3 update.

I have been trying to get move ready for 14 continuous days. And I am not ready to leave....

by Birgit
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June 12, 2022

An update to losing my home – June 2022

Technically I have 2 days remaining before I need to be moved out of my home. If you have...

by Birgit
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June 12, 2022

When to withdraw my payment from Preply or iTalki?

In the event that any teaching platform will abruptly cease business there isn't a guarantee that they would still...

by Birgit
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June 12, 2022

When language learning isn’t showing progress

Question: I have an Italian language student who improves extremely slowly. I have tried everything I can think of...

by Birgit
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May 15, 2022

Let’s make this public – I am losing my home …

I am losing the foundation on which my life has been precariously perched for years. The news came yesterday....

by Birgit
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March 4, 2022

new series #1: daily journal of personal bits and pieces

Trying something new. This is more for personal benefit than it is for you but if you want to...

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Health

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Coming soon: From Diagnosis to Surgery

Diagnosis to Surgery / being sick and getting treatment in America First draft / Still to be edited It’s about a year ago that our crazy journeys began. My...

August 9, 2019
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writing

Losing my home aka The Move or ‘What if?’After the first 3 emotional updates I wonder if I am ready to accept...June 17, 2022

An update to losing my home – June 2022Technically I have 2 days remaining before I need to be moved out of...June 12, 2022

Resources from my first week of learning Korean – how I cope with life stressThis week I share how learning Korean is helping me with Stress management. The...April 19, 2021

Drawing

Life Update. What on Earth is going on with this Blog? (& Special welcome to my Ebay customers popping by to see what I am up to)

by Birgit

Thank you to my Ebay supporters, returning to America, starting new chapters, setting goals with our business

April 21, 2017
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animal portraits, Drawing, journal, Life, Liverpool, over7seas, San Francisco, Travel, writing

Petsitting & Housesitting

July 2, 2021

Part time Dog sitter in the San Francisco since 2014

Just an extremely short note from me today. I just realised that I haven’t written anything since returning to...

by Birgit
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May 28, 2020

I commissioned an artist on Fiverr to make an illustration of Jason and Fig

I hired an illustrator on Fiverr for $12, would I do it again? You'll have to tap to find...

by Birgit
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April 14, 2020

Dog emotion and Cognition course

Today I found out about a 7 week course that starts today, on April 14th 2020, on the evolution...

by Birgit
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March 11, 2020

We got our first housesitting cancellation because of Covid-19

Our housesit was cancelled. What to do? There isn't a whole lot that we can do but I would...

by Birgit
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November 25, 2019

Tips for petsitters: How to make your pet’s owners happy.

Take a little time to be creative with the daily updates that you send to your pet’s owners. When...

by Birgit
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August 9, 2019

Tips for pet owners when hiring a pet sitter

Give clear instructions in print AND digital format, do NOT rely on spoken instructions (nor digital) alone. Ensure that...

by Birgit
Comments 0
August 8, 2019

Rover Petsitter throws puppy : my response

I am not sure that the reporting of the incident was fair or balanced. It indicates that booking a...

by Birgit
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June 24, 2019

Trying out Trusted Housesitters for free accommodation

I recently signed up to Trusted Housesitters and the grand master plan is to first build my profile and...

by Birgit
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My incredible Aunt Tove's travels

Asia, Aunt Tove, Culture, inspiration, journal, over7seas, Travel

what once belonged to Tove

Aunt Tove lived much of her life in Berkeley California, within walking distance from Berkeley university as well as the beautiful Berkeley Hills. She was a research scholar and...

August 24, 2016
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