My 6 tomato plants have happily been spewing out fruit at a regular interval. Unfortunately the birds will not allow the fruit to ripen on the vine. The winged bandits eat any thing that is remotely red and have even eaten some green fruit. This is most disappointing because vine-ripened tomatoes are so sweet. I […]
We discovered our turtle liked strawberries. When there would be spoiled strawberries, I’d toss them by her pool and they would disappear. I thought the birds or dog had been eating them. Then one day we saw turtle walking with a berry in her mouth and another time with her swimming with one in her
In college, I worked at El Gato Gordo restaurant as a cashier, stashed away in the kitchen where no one would see me. The benefit of working there is that I got to eat a meal for each shift I worked. Hence I got to eat 3x week for that year and a half of
When you have 4 teens in the house for a 48 hour hack-a-thon, what should be on the menu? After they consumed a package of tostada shells and the fixings that go on a tostada, I realized I needed bulk quantities. I went to Costco and got 3 large pizzas, a case of mixed soft
A 40-year old loquat tree came with the house when we bought it in 1997. I had never heard of or seen a loquat tree. I equated it to an apricot and I thought this was a good thing since I had grown up with an apricot tree. I discovered though that there were several
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