This will probably be the top ten Tuesday topic of the week, but I'd say that it's pretty darn important for us to all take a few moments and reflect on the things that we are thankful for in our lives. Unfortunately life gets hectic and we forget to be grateful for...
It's a bit hard to believe that Christmas is just around the corner. But when you look around in shop windows and sales fliers, there is no denying that the advent season is upon us. Two weekends ago, we heard about a small local hobby market that was offering wreaths...
Stefan and I have talked about sending Christmas cards to our family and friends nearly every year that we've celebrated Christmas together. And some years we came very close. A few years we managed to write a Christmas letter and send it out via email...but that was...
I'd like to introduce you to a new feature here on NOH. You've probably seen the ads on the side of this page and hopefully noticed that there is new placement, a few new companies and perhaps you even checked out the new NOH advertising page. It's not that I want you...
I know the year isn't over yet, but anyone with a blog or website knows that it's always fascinating to look at the search terms that lead a person to your pages. When NOH was split up into a bunch of little blogs, I used to get all sorts of strange things leading to...
Mack inherited a ton of stuffed animals from me that have been carried all across the US and now to Germany. Some of them (like the gigantic tigers) are new and others are just loaners (like the huge white polar bear whose name is Norman and has been our marriage...
Preparing for an event as massive as Thanksgiving requires some dedication and planning. Whether you are going to prepare your food completely from scratch or only partially, you need to make sure you have enough time to get it all done and consider how many dishes...
Ok, maybe not the Scuba Squad per say...but it's pretty dang close! If you "like" No Ordinary Homestead on Facebook, you've probably already read that I've just joined forces with a motivated team of fired up bloggers called the Blogmania 2011 Dream Team. They are...
We recently bought two old city bikes from our neighbor across the street. He is the bike man -- the collector of all bikes within a 10 mile radius, living or deceased. I'm not kidding when I say that this guy has actually rented space from another neighbor around the...
When Stefan and I first started dating (a million years ago) one of the first things we bought together was the entire collection of James Bond DVD's. And we didn't even have a DVD player. You remember those days right...when only about one-quarter of the world had...
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