Happy Friday everyone! The sun is shining here and it's a beautiful Friday...but I don't know whether or not I'll be spending much time in the garden today because (a) it's been quite chilly the last couple days and (b) I slipped while coming down the stairs last...
Imagine this if you can... You move to a new country and some of the first things you buy are a washing machine and a kitchen (a topic I will later get into), but not a car. And you don't move your car over with you either. But you've grown up in a place where it was...
It's probably no secret by now that I am really starting to get a bit stir crazy about starting some seeds and getting our garden going. But there's still some ground work that has to be done first. We need to boost up the soil in our beds in the courtyard and get...
When I first read that the topic for You Capture this week was peaches, I was a bit stumped. The peaches on our trees won't be coming around for months and I don't even recall seeing any in our local market lately. Mangos for $6 each and pineapples for $8 -- yes. But...
Back in 2007, we started our first adventure into growing stevia. We had heard about this naturally sweet plant and just had to try it out. We're avid iced tea drinkers, and we like it sweet. So we end up going through a whole lot of sugar in a month. Although the...
Over the last few years, I have gotten more and more emails from people who want to move to Germany or other places in Europe but would appreciate a bit of advice before they take the leap. From singles to entire families, there are a wide range of folks who want...
The world around us has finally begun to thaw and I no longer need to wear long underwear, two shirts, a sweater and two pairs of socks when I'm inside our house. Seriously, it was COLD around here for the last few weeks -- and I am so, so glad that it's staying above...
I'll bet that one of the first thing that comes to a foreigners mind when they think of Germany is people wearing funny outfits and Lederhosen. After living here for over 10 years, I can assure you that most people across Germany never wear those sorts of...
How many emails do you receive per day on average? 20? 40? 100? 200?? For me, it's not always that simple to count them up because I have so many different email accounts for my various blogs and businesses. I guess that on a usual day I get somewhere between 100 and...
Happy Friday! This has been a rather long week for me as I've been trying to finally get a cold out of my system -- and get Mackenzie over the same cold which was really not a fun one (sore throat, runny nose, congestion, hacking cough). But the weekend is quickly...
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