I may not have a green thumb when it comes to keeping houseplants and flowers, but like all Turks, I love growing herbs around the house. From spring through summer, we Turks fill our balconies, terraces and tables with mint and globe basil. In Western Turkey, along the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts, you will find potted herbs growing almost everywhere you…
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Make ham bone corn chowder with that leftover holiday ham bone. It’s a cheap and easy meal that tastes great! With Easter in the rear view, you may be tempted to start thinking about spring. Not so fast. If you live in the Northeast U.S. (like we do), you are presently dealing with snow and cold. Poor us. Well, if…
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If you follow us on our Facebook page, you probably know Greg’s Wednesday posts: “Did you know?” Every Wednesday, he picks a subject and posts an interesting fact about it on our Facebook page. They are pretty entertaining I have to say, and since we don’t post on Facebook every day, it is a great way to keep in touch with our readers….
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CONTINUED FROM>> About Us >> I mentioned in the first Afghanistan post that I didn’t have a visa to be in the country legally. Provided I stayed on base, this wouldn’t have posed a problem, and in our preparation and planning, I never thought a situation would arise that would require me to leave the base. As usual, I was…
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Finally the days are getting warmer and longer! I can’t help feeling all giddy inside, because “Spring is here” translates to four things in my vocabulary: more outdoors, more tag sales, more shopping and more goodies at Put&Take. While I am all hyped up and happy, Greg’s take on it is more like: driving thousands of miles between tag sales, Hobby Lobby, HomeDepot, Lowes, local nurseries and home, and as…
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CONTINUED FROM>> About Us >> Early one morning, shortly after we arrived at Camp Bastion, I walked from our “house” to the office area. I always went alone, because Handan needed more time than I did to wake up and get ready. Since I would arrive first, I would stop by the tea room and make an instant coffee for me and…
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If you are a scrapbooker or looking for free images for your decoupage or wall art projects, I have some good news for you: This post is all about how to find free images. Freepik: This is a free graphic resources website where you can find and download over 65K+ free vectors, PSD (Photoshop) files and photos. It has a…
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CONTINUED FROM>> About Us >> We boarded a bus that drove us from the apron to a “terminal” for arriving charter passengers. Our bags were searched by soldiers and returned to us. We were met there by a lanky Turk with a shaven head named Ufuk (pronounced oofOOK). Ufuk drove us from the terminal (really just a collection of Hesco Barriers and…
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Just like the darling groundhog (Punxsutawney Phil) predicted, it seems like Spring has arrived early this year. Our backyard, which was covered with snow last weekend, has now turned into a carpet of fat-breasted robins, hopping around like popcorn while they overturn dead leaves and scratch at the lawn in search of yummy grubs and worms. Since Spring is ringing our door bell,…
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