Don't forget: Today is the last day to enter the Made in Germany giveaway where over $1100 in prizes are up for grabs! Three winners will be chosen in the US and Europe! Low entries so far -- especially in Europe I almost didn't decorate for Easter this year....

The Shutters are Hung
Don't forget to enter early for your chance to win a huge prize package from Germany! A few weeks uh months ago now, I showed you some photos of the lovely new shutters that Stefan and his dad built for the front of our house. They nearly lost a few fingers in the...
Backing up your computer on S3
While I'm on the subject of securing your Wordpress site and backups, I want to talk about a software program I recently came across called CloudBerry Desktop Backup. Now if you're not familiar with Amazon S3 cloud server, all of this might make you go cross-eyed in a...
10 Lessons Learned from the Hackers
Don't forget to get your early entries in for the Made in Germany giveaway, taking place April 9-11 here on NOH. As I'm sure you noticed, NOH was down for about a week due to an unfortunate hacking incident. Although I could have had the blog back up much more...
Early Entries to Win BIG!!
No Ordinary Homestead will be participating in the bi-annual blog hop known as Blog Mania 2011 from April 9-11! The Made in Germany Giveaway hosted by NOH is a special contest, that will be quite simple to enter and only ONE entry will be accepted during these three...

Fighting off the Hackers
Wow. What a weekend it has been! Shortly before going to bed on Saturday, I started getting emails from people, asking if I knew that this was what NOH currently looked like: In fact, all of the domains I have on the same shared server had been hacked with the same...

NOH on Friendly Friday
Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of being interview by Christie Dietz, an expat from the UK who writes a blog about her life here in Germany. Her blog is called Letters from Frau Dietz and I hope you'll hop over to her page and give my Friendly Friday interview a...

Garden plans and a play house
After throwing around a few ideas that we have for our garden, we've decided we definitely need to get our butts in gear. It's starting to be a bit warmer during the day, and we've had lots of wonderful sunshine. We've got seeds to plant, a greenhouse to recover, an...
How to build a cold frame for the salad table
In 2009, when winter just seemed to be dragging on forever, we decided to build a cold frame for our beloved salad table so that we could extend our growing season just a bit. We've actually had lamb's lettuce and spinach growing (oh so slowly) in there all winter....

New NOH Sponsors Roundup
There have been a lot of new additions to the advertising bar on NOH over the last month, and I am so thrilled to be able to introduce you to so many great companies who are currently sponsoring NOH. If you would also like to purchase advertising on No Ordinary...


