by Tiffany | Jul 21, 2011 | Featured, Photography
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...
by Tiffany | Jul 15, 2011 | Featured, Garden
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...
by Ayla the Newfie | Jul 6, 2011 | Ayla's thoughts, Featured, Pets, The relaxed years (5+)
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...
by Tiffany | Jun 20, 2011 | Expat Life, Featured, Food, German Specialties, Travel
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...
by Tiffany | Jun 17, 2011 | Family, Featured
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...
by Ayla the Newfie | Jun 8, 2011 | Aromatherapy, Ayla's thoughts, Featured, Pets, The relaxed years (5+)
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...