An afternoon in Alsace, France

An afternoon in Alsace, France

One of the perks of living in Europe (and especially Germany) is that traveling to another country is often very quick and painless. Some friends of ours, Daniel and Henny, live in Karlsruhe (about 1.5 hours from us) which is only about 20 minutes from Alsace. The...
An afternoon in Alsace, France

The Importance of Backups

Day after day, you read my ramblings about what goes on in front of the computer screen. But what you may not know is that there are a lot of things going on behind the computer screen as well. By that, I mean that I also experience many of the ups and downs that...
Show us your garden: Starting a lasagna garden

Show us your garden: Starting a lasagna garden

You get to hear a lot about me, our farm and our garden here every day, but I know so many of you are doing fantastic things at home, in your own gardens, and I would really love to hear about it. There are so many great ideas floating around and I’ll never be...
An afternoon in Alsace, France

Connect the dots, la la la la — Mack’s music group

Now that Mack is getting a bit older, and becoming more interested in socialization with other kids, we enrolled her in a musical playgroup that takes place down the street every Wednesday morning. Because Stefan was on vacation, he got to come with us last week so we...
An afternoon in Alsace, France

Do they not like their jobs?

I had the “pleasure” of visiting the US Embassy in Frankfurt this morning. Lucky for us it’s only about 20 minutes drive when there’s no traffic but since I had to be there at 7:15am, it was an unusually early up-and-out-of-the-house morning...