I was in my office this morning when I heard the familiar clinking of chains against trash container as a big orange blob moved in front of my window. A few hours later, I went upstairs and saw that 3 or 4 guys had been steadily working to fill the container...and...

Thanksgiving: Dressing and cranberry/currant relish
Thanksgiving shortcuts are hard to pull off here in Germany. So when I go on about making my own dressing from scratch and you just want to hurl, remember that I can’t get things like Stove Top Dressing Mix here in Germany. If I could, I might very well use it. Or I...

Make your own Stove Top Stuffing Mix
On one of the homesteading groups I subscribe to, a member was just sending this recipe around. If you are addicted to Stove Top Stuffing but would rather try something from scratch, here are a few recipes to make your own. ...
The Thanksgiving Countdown
Thanksgiving will be combined with Christmas at our house this year. I would have loved to do a traditional dinner with all the trimmings, but I could be in the hospital, have just brought Mack home or still be pregnant - so planning a huge feast at our place with...

Best turkey brine ever
Last year, I tried something new: brining a turkey. It’s a simple process, where you let the bird soak for 24-48 hours in a bath of spices. It will leave your turkey so moist and tender, it may end up completely falling off the bone when you go to carve it. The...
Blogtipping Tuesday
There's tons of other great blogs out there...so I'm going to start sharing links to some of the blogs I've come across in the past week that I've enjoyed. Digital Photography Blog - This is so much more than a blog. They basically have a free online photography...
Savvy tech shopping
I've been stalking two items on eBay for the last week or so...a keyboard/mouse to go with the new computer in our bedroom...and a baby monitor. Since we're internet junkies anyway, we always try to do our research before we buy something. So I scoped out amazon and...
Because every room in the house needs a computer
Here's a fact that most people may not know about us: my husband and I are geeks...or at the very least dorks. He can build computers, I program websites (he used to as well), we're tech and gadget junkies. Yep, I would say that makes us pretty dorky in the eyes of...
Leave no seed behind!
I made the journey into our garden today and was relieved that I didn't want to run screaming from it as soon as I opened the back door of the barn. Unfortunately (and sometimes fortunately), we cannot see our garden from the main house...only when we walk through the...
So she’ll sleep like a baby…
We've only got a few weeks left until Mackenzie arrives so putting her furniture together finally seemed like the right thing to do. Stefan did assure me that Warren Buffet let his kids sleep in a drawer of his dresser until they outgrew it and I assume they turned...


