Delicious Decorating

I have been silent on the blog front for which I apologize.  Life at The Good Earth has kicked into an insane level of busy as we prepare to open our winery in about two months time; sometime in mid May.  The “to do” list grows daily, as do the tasks crossed off. ...

Happy Boxing Day

I’d say Merry Christmas, but a) it has passed and b) you may be sick of hearing it.  So happy Boxing Day indeed! It was nice to see that our position here in the ‘banana belt’ between the two lakes delivered us our annual warm and rainy Christmas.  I feared for the...

A Lonely Hearts Christmas

I have finally finished all the preparations for our family Christmas celebrations.  The Novak family– all two of us, celebrate in the traditional European Catholic tradition on Christmas Eve.  We go up the road to my “uncle” Klaus where my four...

A bunch of stuff, and Christmas.

As 2009 draws to a close, I have decided to ask myself  “what did I learn this year?”. My first thought is, I should have done this before all the boozy Christmas parties of the last week or so, as now as large portion of the memory section of my brain is missing in...

Buon Natale and Merry Christmas!

This Christmas seems to be drawing near at a very quick pace. I know there is no snow, and that seems to have made it feel less like winter, but as I have now written my final shopping list I feel a bit of pressure to get things done. Christmas Eve for my family has...