Hello There!

Hello There . . .  What a cutie, comes to visit looking for something good to eat every day.   We have flocks of them and they sit on the electric wires and wait patiently for gulls or the ravens to leave and then they swoop down and get the best of the crumbs.  I hadn't noticed the beauty in the fence posts;  a matter of opening our eyes and looking.   I look at the fence and think we need to replace it, but looking at this picture I wonder why.

Here it is Friday, another week gone and we are almost to the end of October, seems like October just started .  Our rainy season seems to have decided to stay and the grass is getting greener by the day.   It is to wet to cut so maybe this rain will bring it back to normal and it will 'stay ' the winter months.

Erin and Donaleo leave us today and return to the Bay area.   Erin has been contacted about a job in the Salinas area so will check it out.   They have a rainy ride ahead of them today so will get an early start and try to beat the new storm heading our way.    We will miss having them here.   Yesterday, Donaleo was the chef for lunch and brought over the makings of  one of the special depression dishes his folks used when times were hard.   The bean is small, the color of a kidney bean, cooked for hours, then put into a blender and made into a re-fried  bean dish.   It is served with a special cream and cheese along with homemade tortillas.   Erin made the tortillas by hand , taught to her by Donaleo's grandmother.    Delicious, healthy and hardy and goes a long way.   

So today, find a special new recipe and give it a chance.   Serve something new and different and wake up the taste buds.  Make enough to share.   We were lucky this week as our friend Marcia made a special winter soup , much like a beef stew but it had a variety of vegetables and noodles in it.  Delicious and hit the spot.   that woman sure knows how to cook and loves it.  It is good to have willing taste buds to try new and different dishes, and better still when you have family and friends who want to share.   Sharing is caring....can't beat it.   Put a smile on your face and head for the kitchen.  Looks like a cookie baking day.   Good deed, good deed, good deed...yes, don't for get that as it is very important to some one person in your life.  Hugs to all.