When we bought our home and added the kitchen, I knew I had to have two ovens. I don’t use them both often — but when I do want to cook a feast and need them, it’s priceless. This is a concept that really hasn’t caught in Germany, mostly because people have rather small kitchens […]

Although I enjoy cooking and we always have a ton of food around here to make into a meal, sometimes I just don’t have it in me to cook. I look at the ingredients and my mind sees nothing. I’m taking some steps to remedy that — but we also like to support our local […]

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 corner from us just to […]

The theme for You Capture this week was a bit more abstract than most of the others I’ve participated in. The assignment simply read: “ORANGE.” Now these topics are free for interpretation and I did consider grabbing a bunch of oranges and tangerines and shooting away, but I thought it would be far more fun […]

Hi friends! The last few weeks have been really smelly for me…and for those around me. I have had a lucky couple of weeks when it comes to locating piles of garbage and strange things to roll in. The first time was a couple weekends ago when I found some particularly stinky stuff and got […]