When Sue M, a fellow old German timber-frame homeowner, suggested I pick up a copy of The Backyard Homestead (available at Amazon.com and Amazon.de) (edited by Carleen Madigan and published by Storey Publishing, LLC), I quickly hopped on over to Amazon and placed my...
{Garden Life} The Organic Gardeners Handbook
Have you ever awakened one morning to find your plants covered in strange little black bumps? Or sprayed the aphids from your plants for the 100th time but still don't seem to ever successfully be rid of them? Would you like to know how to once and for all deal with...
Rethinking some of our projects for 2010
Aside from all the good cooking and eating we did last week, we also used the time to think a bit more about our projects for 2010 and hoped to get started on at least one of those projects last Saturday. There is a company in Frankfurt called Becker that specializes...
Happy New Year
We just finished a nice family dinner of grilled cheese with tomato soup and watched a round of Dinner for One. It's a must watch on New Year's Eve here in Germany. It's funny year after year and you'll find it playing on at least one TV station every hour until...
Woof Wednesday: The best Christmas ever
Hello my dear furry friends! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and got lots of fun and yummy treats from your family this year! Or were you a bad dog who only ended up with a lump of coal under the tree? To tell you the truth, I would be just as excited about the...
A look into 2010…and how we did in 2009
Our resolutions for 2009 included a somewhat short list of projects. Getting our garden in order so we can grow almost all of produce Renovate and expand Stefan’s workshop in the barn so we can not only find things but also have a place to use his tools Clean up our...
My Christmas recap
This was by far the most hectic, unorganized Christmas I've had in a long while. Let me state now that one of my resolutions for 2010 is to have things together long before Christmas eve in 2010 so I'm not ready to pull my hair out when I should be enjoying this...
And the winner is…
Congratulations to Shannon Boyer & her son Braydon who are the winners of the No Ordinary Homestead toy giveaway! Please contact me at [email protected] with your mailing address to claim your prize. Merry Christmas and I hope you're all having a...
It’s a toy giveaway!
Since Christmas is nearly here, I thought it would be a great time for a giveaway. When I was contacted CSNBaby about giving away something from their online toys website, I barely even knew where to start. So I've narrowed it down to a few favorites that I would love...
A trip to the Frankfurt Christmas Market
Since the weather here has finally turned colder, we took the opportunity to finally go to the Christmas market in Frankfurt. We thought Mackenzie would enjoy the sights and sounds. But we didn't count on the ENTIRE city of Frankfurt being down there at the same time....
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