The Barker’s World

What happens when you get Gavin and Abigail together? You get Gabigail! Come on, it’s like Bennifer and Bradgelina or whatever. Now you get it
One day at school Gavin announced to Abigail that he was going to marry her. He told me that she wasn’t exactly happy about it at first, but he [...]

There’s nothing like traffic that at a dead stop. But what if traffic was alive and breathing? Well, it’s possible – I’ve seen it from my yard!
Fortunately for us, that’s about all the traffic we have to deal with here!

I cannot believe that we have not posted any Christmas pictures. I guess we’ve been too busy playing with all of our new goodies and getting back into the swing of things.

Wedding Weekend in St. Louis
I traveled to St. Louis for Sam and Laura’s wedding. It’s still a little weird to think that my little brother is married. All in all, the weekend turned out to be quite nice.
I met my parents at the St. Louis airport Thursday night. They had flown in just a couple [...]

Last night, I let Annie outside to go pottie just before going to bed. It is usually a pain in the neck to find where she has headed off to. I go to the back door and then the front door, over and over. However, last night I went outside to get her and found [...]

Last Saturday we took a trip to the White Mountains, on Crete. Not to be confused with the White Mountains in Arizona. We had some of the best snow there. You would think we had snow in Germany to rival this Greek snow, not the case. This snow was awesome for making snowballs. We even [...]

It is true! We are officially connected with the rest of the world. It is also true that socialism stinks when you are an impatient American waiting for a switch to be flipped to activate a simple phone connection. Oh the joys of living on Crete. Really, I mean it. I now know that I [...]

This week has been relatively disruptive. The death of the teenager in Athens has been a platform for others to launch into riotous acts. Crete is also experiencing some of that trickle-down mob mentality. Matt shared a remark that a Greek woman had made to him, which is poignant and perhaps a little extreme. She [...]

Gavin and I had a busy day today. We went to the base and did a ton of laundry. This has become our routine since moving to Crete. I lug a huge bag of dirty clothes down the stairs and into the car. Then I drive fifteen minutes to the base on the worst roads [...]

As I was looking through the pictures on our page, I noticed somethings.  First, I realized that our television is really dirty. A special thank you to Gavin and Tristan for that contribution.  Second, you can really get a sense of what it is like to be in our home.  I noticed some of Tristan’s artwork.  [...]