And now trash excites me…

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...

What is wrong with kids these days??

Here in Germany there is an increasing awareness of a problem among the youth of this country. In general, I guess this would include “kids” from 12-19, but the problem certainly begins at home. You may have heard about it in the news: here in Germany...

Not much progress today

This morning we had to track down a package from LL Bean (a company which we really love) and unfortunately had to spend two hours in the customs office while they held our package hostage. FedEx has had the package for a month now and was actually going to ship the...

Our lantern festival – Saturday

Not much happens during the day on Saturday but since we were preparing for our own big party, we didn’t really notice. We ordered bread to serve at the party from our local bakery and picked it up on Saturday morning and you could see a bit of the party rush...

Our lantern festival – Friday night

The 56th Annual Büdesheimer Laternenfest (lantern festival) officially ended yesterday. I have to say that we are both a bit sad because it was a whole lot of fun – and we were amazed at the amount of effort this little town put into the event…not to...