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Yes, it’s Pumpkin Season! Our house is in full pumpkin overload! Jack-O-Lantern pumpkins, white pumpkins, blue pumpkins, miniature pumpkins and fairytale pumpkins! Coco has never seen so many pumpkins! Why has “pumpkin madness” hit us in full-force this year? Because I took my husband, Charlie, with us to the Pumpkin Patch at Bates Nut Farm and he’s a sucker for…
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These are blue pumpkins! Until I saw these pumpkins at Bates Nut Farm in Valley Center, California a couple of weeks ago, I didn’t know you could grow blue pumpkins! I think this is a Jarrahdale Pumpkin, originally started in the town of Jarrahdale, New Zealand, thus the name. Blue is my favorite color (all different shades of blue; it’s…
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You know what? I thought people didn’t read these reports. So, I thought if I skipped one for the month of August, no one would miss it! Well, I was wrong. Shortly after the 5th of September (I try to post these reports around the 5th of the month for the preceding month), I received an email from a reader…
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42 Nice-to-Have Kitchen Gadgets is the 11th post in this series of lists of 42 for your home. What is this series about? Well, its two-fold: I’m working on a household inventory for myself, so I thought I’d share with readers AND these lists are supplemental lists to a basic Emergency Planning Checklist.
Rosa is my neighbor. All the pictures in this post are of Rosa! She’s a sweet, wonderful young woman (she’s more than 20 years younger than me, so young enough to be my daughter!), with five children! And, she’s a great cook. A generous person, Rosa, brings us gifts of food all the time and one of my favorite dishes that…
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Ensalada de Nopales, Cactus Salad to gringos (me included), is surprisingly easy to make – IF you have cactus leaves with the thorns (spines) removed! Lucky for me, I invited my neighbor, Rosa, to teach me to make her version of this delicious salad! I’ve had it many times at parties in her home and each time I think to…
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