These Mini Jalapeno Cornbread Muffins were so fun to make! Why? Well, I haven’t made muffins since last year and I loved making them smaller! We (me and Charlie) have been on a diet for quite sometime now – Charlie since April (so into his 7th month now) and he’s lost 52 pounds and me since the end of June…
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Scarecrows, Sunflowers and Face-painting: Another Story from the Farm
If you are a regular reader of our blog, you will know that we went to Bates Nut Farm in Valley Center, California the day the pumpkin patch opened several weeks ago. I took so many pictures that I’ve divided it up into several posts and Scarecrows, Sunflowers and Face-painting: Another Story from the Farm is just that –…
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Wildfire Season: Are You Ready?
Wildfire Season: Are You Ready? I’m not. I should be. You’d think with my past experience that I would have emergency preparation down pat. Down cold. In the bag. But, I don’t. Even though I don’t feel prepared, I’m probably more prepared than most Americans. Because even though I don’t feel prepared, I’ve done some of the basics. Plus, I’ve lived through…
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Straw Maze and Lazy Daze
What could be more perfect on a hot, fall day than running through a Straw Maze {grin; or maybe that should be groan!}? Bates Nut Farm, in Valley Center, California, has an elaborate Straw Maze with just the right amount of interactive play to keep children of all ages excited to join in the adventure. On a cloudless, blue sky day…
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One Year Ago Today – Any Way the Wind Blows
This is an emotional time of year for me. Although it has been 6 years since the loss of our home in a wildfire, this time of year conjures up surprising emotions that I think I should have gotten over a long time ago. After all, Charlie, Coco and I are all right. None of our family was injured…
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Scary, Spooky, Haunted, Forbidden
“Hold on, man. We don’t go anywhere with ‘scary’, ‘spooky’, ‘haunted’ or ‘forbidden’ in the title.” – Shaggy Lest you not know, the above quote is from Shaggy of the cartoon series, Scooby-Doo fame. But, the photo above is of our old farmhouse before it burned to the ground in the October 2007 California wildfire known as the Witch Fire. …
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