The Barker’s World

And it all happened right here on the beautiful island of Crete. A couple of weeks ago, some friends of ours were taking out the trash (in the rain no less!) when they heard a noise coming from under some palm fronds by the dumpster. They looked around and found 2 baby puppies, still with [...]

All right, I just had to share this. Tristan is 3/4 of the way through his year in 2nd grade and this is his latest school composition work. A couple of these really had me rolling!
Tristan’s Work
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Or is that an exercise in frustration? For those that have been waiting to hear from us on the phone, you’re just going to have to keep on waiting… We have been waiting now for well over a month to get a phone line in our house. Unfortunately, things don’t work that quickly here in Crete. [...]

Today is gonna be a good day! How do I know that, you wonder? Because no bad day ever starts out with a good pillow fight, that’s why!

Hey everybody! You know, sometimes we don’t always keep up with the posts here as much as we want to. So, to keep everybody in touch with what we’re doing (at least as best as possible), I’ve added a new page to the site today, called Lifestream.

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Well, my journey is almost over. I took a plane yesterday morning to Athens, took a taxi to a bus station to catch a bus to Volos. When I got to Volos, I went to the customs broker’s office to get my car, but it turns out that the customs office was closed for the [...]

Well, it is almost that time. We are now just 2 days away from our big move to the island of Crete. It has been a very long process to get this done and now that the time is upon us, it is just now starting to hit us that we are actually moving. We [...]

Today I came across a post on one of my favorite recipe sites that talks about a product called Debbie Meyer Green Bags.  Now, Ginger will probably tell you that I am a sucker for gadgets like this.  As a side note, I think I get that from my mom, who always has tons of [...]

Really, I was just wanting a chance to test out Flickr’s new video service. Just a little morph video showing how much Tristan has changed since we moved to Germany.

Ginger got an email with a link to this awesome video:

What would you do if you saw something like that?