This was a varied topic this week, because our lovely host Beth decided to ask her son Noah what the topic for YouCapture this week. His response was: “like trees and beautiful plants and little cute babies.” Now we do have a lot of trees and plants around here...

{Garden Life} – What is growing?
Welcome to the very first installment of the Garden Life Link up! I know that a lot of you reading this blog have your own blogs --and your own gardens. So I thought it would be fun to start a link up that will be posted every Friday right here on No Ordinary...
Woof Wednesday: 10 Ways to Keep Dogs Cool During the Summer
Dear friends, Whew. They don't call them the dog days of summer for nothing! I'm pretty sure that phrase arrived because some pup was just exhausted and overheated on a super hot summer day. And we've been having a few of those this week! A dog's normal body...
Auf Deutsch: Pork Cuts
Since the beef cuts guide was such a big hit, and so many people have asked when this might continue so you can all figure out the cuts of pork you want to be buying as well, I figured I had better get cracking. It's time to delve into the world of pork and see just...
The Great SUV Debate
Not too long ago, I celebrated my fifth anniversary with my beloved Defender -- a truck which I absolutely adore because it's slow, fun to look at, and could probably hold a medium-sized elephant in the back! But after Stefan's BMW was stolen at the end February, he...
Woof Wednesday: No more fleas and ticks
Hi friends! Because we had a pretty mild end to our winter, and there was no freeze to kill off hatching bugs, the creatures are out in full effect. Ticks, mosquitoes and maybe even some fleas are running rampant around here. And I think mom and dad might actually be...
10 Things I’d Like to Grow This Year
I can't believe it's the middle of May already and I have yet to put one seed in the ground! I had such good intentions, but we've been quite swamped with work and visitors and traveling and LIFE! But I still hope that one of these days soon, I will still put some...
10 Recipes to Celebrate Cinco de Mayo
Since Cinco de Mayo is just around the corner, I thought I'd give you a bit of a heads up so you can start thinking about what Mexican-inspired dishes you will be preparing on Thursday! We never really need an excuse to have Mexican (or at least Tex-Mex) around here...

National Infertility Awareness Week on NOH
Today begins something new and never before discussed on NOH. This week is National Infertility Awareness Week (April 24-30) and although this is a topic and area of life that we have not personally struggled with, I have known several couples who have. And one of my...
Capturing Smiles
Oh You Capture friends and assignments. How I have missed you! What started with me having no clue what to photograph for one single assignment quickly turned into a month of no You Capture. And to be honest, I barely picked up my camera at all during that time. It...


