Make your own picante sauce!

I will openly admit that I LOVE picante sauce. I grew up in Texas, we like our food spicy and there are few things tastier on scrambled eggs than picante. I am a Pace fan (it’s made in San Antonio, you know) but we can’t get it here in Germany. In fact, you can’t get...

Resolving a disinterest in eating

For the last couple of weeks Ayla has not been her usual self when it comes to eating breakfast and dinner. When her meals were offered to her, she would just sort of pick at them and finally got the point that she wasn’t really eating much at all. The first few...

Do we know what we’re talking about? :-)

We had someone contact us via the blog recently who has also just bought a timber frame house (perhaps we have more blogging company Anna lol) and they wanted to talk via email to learn from our experiences…I figure that others may also be able to learn from the...

New plants & decor for the courtyard :-)

Yesterday during our visit to Rüdesheim we wandered by a pretty good wine store called Dr. Nagler. We’ve bought many bottles of their Reisling over the past few years and also ate at their restaurant over Christmas. Very decent food and not bad prices either,...

What I did the last few days

Hey everydog! Hope you’re all having a great weekend. My human dad’s family came to visit and it was GREAT! Before they arrived, my humans decided to do some cleaning up around the farm. Naturally I did my best to help out! Here’s me helping dad...