I'd like to take a moment to introduce you to a NOH sponsor which you may already be familiar with. BePrepared.com brought to you by Emergency Essentials is a website that every person familiar with food storage, camping outings and emergency preparedness. Have you...
Do you get that dry, chapped feeling on your hands during the summer? Working in the garden, washing dishes, playing sports and even just day-to-day tasks can really take a toll on your skin. I have to admit that it always seemed that my hands got unbelievably dry,...
First, I'd like to thank everyone who entered in the Made in Germany contest (and any of the other Blogmania contests!) The response was great and I had a lot of fun reading all your responses about things you like about Germany. The beer and the food here were the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Because we're living in Germany, getting mail from America is not always as easy or quick as it may seem. We decided several years ago that having a box at a mail forwarding company would be a very wise choice, even though it can get costly. But when we have the urge...
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