I’ve probably mentioned it before but we have 4 trash cans which are used on a regular basis here: Blue for paper, Black for regular household trash, Green for garden cuttings and Brown for biotrash. In addition, we also have special yellow plastic sacks for the disposal of packaging and plastic items. Quite a bit […]

I may have mentioned in the past that Ayla has been a bit wild in the evening lately…or maybe I didn’t. Not really sure anymore and too busy to go back and look myself…but it seems that Ayla has more and more energy these days, especially in the evenings. Actually, she has little bursts of […]

Ayla’s second birthday is coming up on February 23rd and when I was in the pet store the other day, I saw one of these dog learning games. I’ve seen them quite a few times before and always thought to myself it could be something interesting for Ayla since she’s so smart anyway (too smart […]

I got a forward today which is generally the points mentioned below, originally posted in 2006 by a man named Wade Meredith. I don’t generally believe too many things I get as forwards these days, so my first reaction was to verify it with Google. What I found was that there seems to be a […]

Being a Texas girl, I do not take the subject of chili lightly. I have very specific opinions about what should be in chili and its minimum heat requirements. We have been making chili pretty much since we moved here to Germany but hadn’t really found the “perfect” recipe yet – until last week. I […]