Last weekend I had another one of those wild ideas that suddenly just manifests in your brain when you look at something. A little light goes off and you wonder why that thought never crossed your mind before. We get a lot of those around here. Pure moments of genius. Well, in our world anyway.  […]

Hello to all my two- and four-legged friends! We’ve had some awesome spring-like weather here in Germany the past few days…and over the four-day Easter weekend this family had lots of good times, including a super long walk up to the horse ranches. It took us about an hour round trip and we haven’t been […]

Last week I mentioned that we finally filled in the wall cracks where our electrical cables are laid. That little project only took us about 2 hours to complete…but we needed about a year to get around to actually doing it. Please forgive my poor photography below. Since it was a nice 4-day weekend here […]

I think I mentioned how incredibly gorgeous it is in this area…but you really can’t grasp the natural beauty unless you see it yourself. I’m not even sure my photos did the area justice. It seemed that almost everywhere you looked, it was just so serene… and I’m sure it didn’t hurt that we were […]

Two weeks ago today we were woke up in our apartment in East Germany, ready to explore this unknown world. East Germany has a pretty bad reputation because a lot of places have become desolate and dilapidated in the past 10 years. We were near the Thüringer Wald (Forest of Thuring) in a tiny town […]