Day to Day Life

As you can see, I’m back posting on my blog again.  I’ve been back from France for a little over a week and am just settling back in and getting used to life here in Rotterdam again. Our holiday was fantastic and I will soon be bombarding you with photos of some of the things I’ve seen as well as …

It’s true… look!! BEANS! Actual … beans!!  I don’t believe it!  I grew a real and honest to goodness vegetable!  I am the queen of gardening! Seriously, if you could have seen the little dance I did around the balcony when I saw these babies.  It went a little something like…  I have beans, baby beans, Go Tammy…shake yer booty, …

Last weekend Penny and I went to Blijdorp Zoo here in Rotterdam.  I have been a few times before, but it really is one of those places you could visit again and again.  It was hotter than hell so I actually got over the whole fat arms thing and wore a tank top in public.  I was paranoid and self-conscious …

I have it, and I’m pretty sure it’s contagious because my husband appears to have caught it too. Don’t worry, we’re not sick. Well, not really… Do you remember four years ago when I watched my first World Cup match?  True to my word I made a point of following the the World Cup from the beginning this year.  Rather …

Well, it’s time for another installment of The Veggie Files.  It’s been almost a month now and things are going great!  The plants are growing very quickly and with the exception of my lettuce, the plants are getting big and strong. You can see in this photo that my bean plants (left) have grown big and bushy and my cucumber …

On June 12th Xander and I hopped in the car and headed off to the Hard Rock Cafe in Amsterdam for Bitchsterdam 2.  For those of you wondering what Bitchsterdam is, it’s a gathering of bloggers, organized by DutchBitch, that has taken place two years in a row now when Dave from Blogography and Penelope come over to this side …

One more thing I love about living in the Netherlands?  How bright it stays at night during the spring and summer.  The other night we were driving along the highway at 10:30pm and this is how bright it still was.  This wasn’t a long exposure or anything done to make it seem brighter than it was.  It honestly was still …

Saturday was beautiful and sunny, about 26 degrees and absolutely delightful when we went out for a bike ride.  I was talking to my friend Laila and heard that she had spent the day at Scheveningen where everyone was already swimming!  I couldn’t believe it, normally I wait until July before I head to the beach but if the Dutchies …

First, let me apologize if you came here looking for info on fishing in the Netherlands.  I got squat.. nada.  Other than this photo, which I took yesterday during a bike ride near Groene Kruisweg in the south of Rotterdam. I stopped to take a photo when I saw these people fishing, because it looked nice and also because I …

As I mentioned in my last Veggie Files update, patience is not something I have a large supply of.  I got really tired of waiting for lettuce to show up in my lettuce pot, so I stuck a few seeds a bit more shallow in the pot with my cucumber, and whattya know!  A few days later, I have lettuce …

The map was created with my favorite handy dandy My Tracks application for Android. Today my husband and I went on a nice long bike ride around Rotterdam.  He was finally over his throat infection, I was over my minor cold and the sun was shining again… it was time to get out there!  Initially we planned on a short …