Well, it was a very short lived time for the Canine Cooler but about a month ago, one of the seems started to open up and we had to put the bed out to greener pastures. It was still under warranty but unfortunately sending it back to the US to exchange it for a new […]

We’re doing something a bit different for Easter this year. We usually visit Locarno, Switzerland, to get in some climbing. The weather is usually a bit warmer there than here in Germany and we can enjoy our first taste of the summer….but this year a pretty yucky weather front is heading into Europe and apparently […]

This post was a bit too painful for me to make three weeks ago when this actually happened…but I guess time has dulled the pain a bit. My wonderful husband bought me 120 multi-colored tulips for Valentine’s Day and our house was just filled with them. I actually had a buy a couple of vases […]

The gardening fever is striking us again (thankfully since we have a nice big space to utilize back there) and we’ve just starting a ton of seeds….of course we are only writing about it on our self-sufficient / garden blog, Self-Reliant Yuppies, so if you want to see what we’re up to, please go drop […]

So I’ve mentioned that we got seeds from Burpee a few times now…and you may be wondering what we ordered…so here goes – it’s a LONG list, I know. But the seeds there cost a fraction of the price here, especially for chili seeds so even with shipping them over here, it’s totally worth it. […]