Yesterday, I finally gave canning with German jars a try. Why is that so strange, you might ask? Well most people who can in the US are familiar with Ball and Kerr jars (and all those similar). They have two-piece metal lids on them and you can put just about anything in them as long […]

After we got back from the evening walk with Ayla yesterday, we were partaking of our usual routine which involves checking on our container garden in the courtyard and watering all the plants. Ayla is generally obliged to lie in the courtyard and just observe everything going on. But yesterday we also had to take […]

I’m feeling a bit nauseous today. Not really sure why but maybe I was on my feet too much yesterday? Or maybe Mackenzie wasn’t happy with the cup of Darjeeling I had this morning and wanted something different? At any rate, I think I will be spending a good part of the day working from […]

No, no problems or complaints in this post. We’re not upset that we have worms but rather pleased instead. We recently started our very own worm farm after finding ourselves plagued with an endless supply of fruit flies in our kitchen who just loved munching down on whatever was waiting to go to our compost […]

Since we had a bit of ginger root laying around and a few plastic soda bottles, we decided to try out making soda for the first time. It’s a very simple process, some more simple than others, and to our slight surprise, it actually worked! I don’t know what the exact recipe we used was […]