Posted by terrepruitt on November 29, 2024
In 2022 the Wharf in Capitola was ripped in half by a storm. It has been rebuilt and was reopened in September of 2024. The arch has been changed a bit. My hubby and I used to go to breakfast at Avenue Cafe then spend Thanksgiving morning downtown, but we hadn’t been in five or six years. We went this year. It was a beautiful day – Thanksgiving 2024.
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Posted by terrepruitt on November 15, 2024
Nessa in a bag. We do not leave handles on bags. If a cat is in a bag with handles they are being supervised and the second they get out of the bag it either gets taken away or the handle removed. Those little heads get stuck in those handles and it is not good. This is an old picture for today’s Friday Photo.
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Posted by terrepruitt on October 25, 2024
I don’t eat sushi, but it can be beautiful. And the way they “plated” it was fabulous. Here is some sushi for today’s Friday Photo.
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Posted by terrepruitt on October 18, 2024
My Friday Photo today is Nessa and Teagan. Teagan could be trying for the ribbon or just talking as she often does. She is Talking Teagan. Cats are funny.
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Posted by terrepruitt on October 11, 2024
I post so many flowers I think I should call my Friday Photos Friday Flowers. These are from when our rose bush produced these vibrant orange roses. And behind are jonquils.
Cheers.
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Posted by terrepruitt on October 4, 2024
This was a Christmas gift for my hubby a a couple of years ago. I think it was pretty. It was ok (tasting). Often themed wine is just ok, you get it more for the “theme”. But, as I said, it was pretty and I am using it for my Friday Photo.
Posted in Friday Photo | Tagged: blue white wine, blue wine, Christmas gift 2022, Friday Photo, pretty wine, Star Trek wine, themed wine | 4 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on September 27, 2024
This is the 10th Friday Photo this year that is of flowers. I love flowers, but of course they don’t last so I love being able to “save” them via photos.
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Posted by terrepruitt on September 6, 2024
I order flowers from the farm we get a produce box from. And while it is nice to have flowers delivered, there are always a few broken ones. Here is this weeks broken off flowers.
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Posted by terrepruitt on September 4, 2024
My niece and I have repeat conversations sometimes. We can vaguely recall having talked about a subject, but sometimes we forget the details. She texted me the other day about Taco Salad. She asked what type of dressing I put on it and I asked her what she put on it and that led to me remembering what dressing was used when I first learned of Taco Salad – Thousand Island. And that reminded me of the story about how I first learned of Taco Salad.
It was the 70s and we had gone to our pastor’s house for dinner. His wife was cooking and talking. She told us how she had put a cake in the oven and then later went to check on it and it wasn’t there. And it turned out she had put it in a cupboard and not the oven. Of course we thought that was a charming story, we laughed and went on with our visit.
But you can imagine what we thought when we saw this woman add all the ingredients for a taco salad in one bowl. And then add dressing. We thought she had kind of “lost it”. We had never seen such a thing. Salads like that were not usual way back then and she HAD just told us about baking a cake in the cupboard.
Of course we learned that she had mixed all of the ingredients together on purpose. The issue for us – my mom and I – was actually the Thousand Island dressing, neither of us liked it. But we ate some of the taco salad because that was dinner. I don’t even remember what she put in her taco salad I just remember how we thought she had made a mistake akin to baking in a cupboard.
And as it turned out taco salad ended up being a meal that both my mother and I loved. We just used things, including dressing, that we liked. My mom would put Catalina or French Dressing on hers, and I don’t use dressing. My husband is not a dressing type of person, so I think he uses salsa and sour cream, if we have it, on his salad. We put what we like in our salad and call it Taco Salad because it has “taco flavored” meat and corn chips.
Like most things when I blog about them then I want to make them or eat them so now I want Taco Salad.
Do you eat a version of Taco Salad? What do you put in yours? What type of dressing do you use?
Posted in Food, Misc | Tagged: 1970s, beef, Catalina, French Dressing, funny story, lettuce, salad dressing, Salsa, sour cream, Taco salad, Thousand Island | Leave a Comment »
Posted by terrepruitt on August 19, 2024
So, hopefully you are stretching every day. And you understand it doesn’t have to interrupt your day. You can stretch during your daily routine. If you like stretching and you make the time to do it separately from your daily habits, that is great. I am all for that, but I know that people are so busy so I am just trying to encourage people to stretch EVERY DAY and give you ideas (or reminders) on how to do it.
Here is a squat. As you can see I am brushing my teeth while squatting. Ok, maybe you can’t actually see because these stretch pictures I have been posting are blurring, but that is ok with me, I am just trying to give you ideas and remind you that you can stretch EVERY DAY!
As always with my STRETCH EVERY DAY reminders I am not describing HOW to do the stretch, but I have already done a couple of posts on squatting so you can look back at those if you would like. What would be really cool, is if you read them while squatting. 🙂
So, are you still stretching?
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