Thank you for all your support in this crazy, expat journey on Making This Home.  Below are our five most popular posts for October, 2008.  Here’s hoping for more great fun.

1. A Peek Inside a Prague Home.  You’ve seen Prague as the guidebooks show it.  Now this tour takes you beyond that to the outskirts of the city with images of communist and post-communist architecture, finally settling in a 350 square-foot apartment for some Czech cakes.

2. How to Make Sense of Energy Efficient Bulbs and Find What Works in Your Home.  I can get concepts like Easy Bake Ovens and pioneer days.  Thanks to my husband’s explaination with reference to these things, now I understand CFLs.  Maybe this can help you crack the lightbulb code, too.

3. A Load-ed Question:  Our German Washing Machine.  Let’s just say I never knew talk about a washing machine could draw such a crowd!

4. The Way Things Were.  I shiver to see this.  But here’s what our kitchen looked like when we started.

5. 3 Reasons I’m Thinking This May Take a While.  We’re not in Kansas any more, Toto, which means we’re hitting a few roadblocks in Germany.  Wouldn’t have thought of laws like these.

6. How to Celebrate Autumn in Germany.  This year, October wasn’t about the Halloween candy or fake cobwebs.  I thought I’d be sad… until I started going to these outdoor markets every weekend.

7. Those Apples are Getting Saucy.  Our family soul food.  So easy.  So delicious.  So absolutely necessary that I go.  Make More.  Now…

(Photographs by my beautiful friend, Vica.)