Goodbye dear old friend

It’s sperrmüll time again here and that means there are piles of junk on every street corner in our town, along with tons of white panel vans with Polish license plates cruising around. The vans started appearing on Saturday morning already, waiting with...

Making wine without all the extras

We had the privilege and pleasure of being invited to visit friends in Karlsruhe on Saturday during a family wine making day. We weren’t really sure what we were getting ourselves into but when we arrived, we found out it was us along with 3 generations of one...

Vegetable soup with options

Prepare yourself for a long recipe here…but this is first a basic Hearty Vegetable soup that we canned and then a few variations which you can use when you open up a can of this goodness to eat it. This way you can eat the same soup over and over again without...

That’s not shopping at all

After the visit to the doctor today, we ventured over to IKEA (yes, twice in one week which is scary to us too) and thought we were going to pick up the DVD shelves and chest of drawers from IKEA. We noticed that everything was about to go up in price with the new...