Birgit Over 7 Seas

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