Day six: Miranda, California The last 2 days of our 1200+ mile road trip found us on the magnificent avenue of the giants, the redwood forest. We stayed in a charming little cottage at the Miranda Gardens Resort . I highly recommend it. Rustic & luxurious at the same time. Love the comfortable king beds. ...
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Road trip chapter five
Day five: Carmel is enchanting. Quiet & Quaint. We wandered the streets until dark (they don’t have street lights) then retired to our room and relaxed in front of the fireplace. The weather was perfect. The next morning we had a picnic basket with fresh bakery outside our door. Put Carmel by the Sea on...
Road trip chapter 4
Day four: Andersen’s Split Pea Soup 2 quarts water 2 cups of Andersen’s specially selected green split peas 1 stalk of celery, coarsely chopped 1 large carrot, chopped 1 small onion, chopped 1/4 teaspoon ground thyme 1 pinch of cayenne pepper 1 bay leaf salt & pepper to taste Combine all ingredients in a big...
Road trip chapter three
Day Three: Baby Violet loving great aunt Violet Mission accomplished! We made it to Prescott,AZ Friday afternoon and had a nice visit with Ken,Glenda & aunt Violet. We stayed for an hour or so and were back on the road eager to make our way back home to the kids. Levi pulled over on the...
Road trip chapter 2
Day two: If I could photoshop the cigarette out of his mouth, I would. It is a good thing he’s cute. Actually..despite his bad habits he is a good man and he loves me…I know this because he puts up with my obsessive attempts to check my email and lets me take pictures whenever &...
Road trip chapter one
We are back from our week long adventure. We had a wonderful, mind clearing drive through 6 states. Day one: Armed with laptop & camera we begin our journey east on highway 84. We hook up aunt Violet’s travel trailer, drive for a few hours and promply run out of gas. We underestimated how much...
Road trip
Tomorrow morn we are off to Arizona. Me,Levi & baby Violet are hauling Aunt Violet’s RV to Prescott for her. We are taking 84 there and 101 back down the California coast,yeah! If I get my way we will stay a few days in Carmel. I am armed with my camera and will share the...
Peppermint Hot Chocolate
We served this yummy hot chocolate at the pumpkin festival. We doubled the recipe and added 15 cups of Carnation hot chocolate. 3-1/2 cups milk 8 squares (1 ounce each) white baking chocolate, chopped 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract 2/3 cup heavy whipping cream 8 spearmint or peppermint candies, crushed Additional crushed peppermint...
Windy Ridge Pumpkin Festival
We took the easy road with pumpkins this year and decided to decorate rather than carve. Amazingly it was a beautiful day, not so common in October. We had 17 kids,a mess of pumkins, stick pins, wiggly eyes, yarn…the photos tell the story.
A kindle of kittens
Macy had 5 kittens 3 weeks ago and today I took some time to play with them on the lawn with the kids. All kittens have been claimed & named. We have a Milo, Smokey, Man-eater(named by a 14 year old:), Lacey & Oreo.