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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
    Comments 2
    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

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

by Birgit

Take a little time to be creative with the daily updates that you send to your pet’s owners. When they see that you took care to take a cute photo of their pet, rather than just a quick snap shot and THEN you add some text to it that makes the presentation overall cute and shows your care for the pet then they will...

November 25, 2019
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house sitting, housesitting, over7seas, petsitting

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
Comments 0
house sitting, housesitting, Oakland, over7seas, petsitting, San Francisco, Travel

Rover Petsitter throws puppy : my response

by Birgit

I am not sure that the reporting of the incident was fair or balanced. It indicates that booking a petsitter through Rover is dangerous, when with the right approach it can be safer.

August 8, 2019
Comments 0
California, house sitting, over7seas, petsitting, San Francisco

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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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Money saving tips from a frugal person:#1 is my newest tip. A coupon website that seems brilliant! I found out...September 28, 2017

So very soon I will return to America!I can’t quite believe just HOW soon I will return to living in America!...June 5, 2017

Transferwise surprised me today...Today I received a personal email from one of the advisers at #TRANSFERWISE ......June 1, 2017

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

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
Comments 0
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
Comments 0
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
Comments 0
February 22, 2019

Our side hustle & extra income (petsitting)

I can't write much right now but let me try and briefly sum up this easy side-hustle, that helped...

by Birgit
Comments 7
May 23, 2018

We are petsitting again

After a several month long break from everything caused by an intrusive health issue that sent me to a...

by Birgit
Comments 0
September 13, 2015

Petsitting in Bernal Heights

After being told that this cat didn’t like being petted and that she is rather moody I was ready...

by Birgit
Comments 0
July 19, 2015

Where can we go from here?

Our housesitting appointment is drawing to a close at the end of the coming week. We by chance got...

by Birgit
Comments 0

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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