We made these smoked ribs last year in our barrel smoker and they turned out SO good. We were so busy trying out other new recipes in our new smoker haze that I never got around to writing about them. So when we made them last weekend again, we knew it was love all over […]

You get to hear a lot about me, our farm and our garden here every day, but I know so many of you are doing fantastic things at home, in your own gardens, and I would really love to hear about it. There are so many great ideas floating around and I’ll never be able […]

Good morning friends, I have little doubt that you have heard about the disastrous oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico which began with the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 3 weeks ago. With oil escaping at an alarming rate of 200,000 gallons (or more) a day, the world is searching for some […]

Now that Mack is getting a bit older, and becoming more interested in socialization with other kids, we enrolled her in a musical playgroup that takes place down the street every Wednesday morning. Because Stefan was on vacation, he got to come with us last week so we actually had the opportunity to snap a […]

I had the “pleasure” of visiting the US Embassy in Frankfurt this morning. Lucky for us it’s only about 20 minutes drive when there’s no traffic but since I had to be there at 7:15am, it was an unusually early up-and-out-of-the-house morning for me. As if fate would have it that way, Stefan’s parents were […]