Posted by terrepruitt on September 4, 2020
So, it is good that I have a lot of photos that I would like to share because I am not going anywhere. And, of course, there are always cats. But this one is from when my friends were in the area staying at an AirBnB in July of 2019. The yard was so fun I took many pictures. I have posted a lot of them for my Friday Photos.
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Posted by terrepruitt on July 10, 2020
About this time last year some friends were visiting from out of state and they were staying at a place that had the cutest yard. I was very entertained by the yard. I walked around and took a lot of pictures. I have posted some but have a few more I could share. Here are some stepping stones for my Friday Photo. I thought it would be nice to use these . . . perhaps on a path to more love and kindness in the world.
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Posted by terrepruitt on August 16, 2019
Oh, I love blue and I love calla lilies, so you can look at this and know that I love it! This is another lovely thing in the Airbnb yard in Capitola, near Santa Cruz. It was a gorgeous day and there were so many things to observe . . . there’ll be more pictures.
A pretty plate for my Friday Photo.
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Posted by terrepruitt on August 9, 2019
Here is another way to display the pretty bottles you have. This is in the same yard as the Colorful Bottle Tree.
There was so much to look at in this yard. I was enjoying looking at it and taking pictures. So there will be more Friday Photos of this fun yard in Santa Cruz/Capitola! I really loved these bottles because they are blue!
This is bamboo, right?
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Posted by terrepruitt on December 14, 2018
Here is one of my new Christmas Tree ornaments that I believe we got in Capitola during one of our visits. This is the new kind I seem to be collecting. They are so pretty. The ones I tend to like are decorated with beads, “pearls”, sparkly things, and dangles. Here is a unicorn ornament for my Friday Photo.
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Posted by terrepruitt on November 26, 2018
Last week I decided to make pumpkin soup for Thanksgiving. Ever since our dads died we don’t really do Thanksgiving. My husband’s siblings are off with their kids and I don’t have any siblings. So we do our breakfast in Capitola – although we might have to actually eat breakfast somewhere else before going to Capitola as this year nothing was really open for full breakfast – and then we just eat whatever for dinner. Last year I didn’t even think to plan anything for dinner and I think we ended up going to Chavez market to get burritos. This year I decided to make pumpkin soup. The problem with that is pumpkins are gone from the stores by Thanksgiving. I sort of expected that, but I was HOPING there would be some, but there was not. I am very thankful for cellular service and Google – while standing in the store I decided to try something else. I was thinking any type of winter squash would work, it would just be squash soup. There was this not-so-attractive-green-pumpkiny looking thing and I looked it up and it is actually called a Japanese pumpkin. So cool. I decided to try the Kabocha squash.
As I said the Kabocha squash is also called a Japanese pumpkin. Wiki also said that it is even sweeter than butternut squash. I thought this was great as it would help cut down on the bitterness (although the Roasted Pumpkin Soup 2.0 recipe took care of that). The store also didn’t have any heavy cream so I got half and half. I thought that would be good too, since the kabocha squash is said to be sweeter. The half and half would be less sweet than the heavy cream so I was confident it would all work out fine.
Well . . . let me tell you, that Kabocha squash is SUPER difficult to cut. The skin is very thin, but it is super tough. It was a challenge. Not impossible, but way more time consuming than I had planned. I had planned to hop in the kitchen cut up the Japanese pumpkin and throw it in the oven then have time to do other things, but no, it was tough.
I roasted it with Milanese Gremolata olive oil, salt, and marjoram and it came out lovely. It is a very good squash.
Using it for the pumpkin soup was fantastic. It worked out great. I used the skin and all in the soup. I just roast it and then put the chunks in the blender. Now I know that I can get two sugar pie pumpkins and a Japanese pumpkin over the Fall Season. So that means one or two stuffed pumpkin dinners and/or making pumpkin soup one or two times.
We ate pumpkin soup for four days and we were actually sad last night to finish it. It was very good. Oh . . . . I did add a cup or two of broth each night when I heated it up. It got VERY, VERY thick. So I mixed in a cup or two (depending on how much I was heating up) to help thin it out.
Now you know you can make pumpkin soup with a sugar pie pumpkin or a Japanese pumpkin. Or perhaps you already knew that. Did you know about the Kabocha squash?
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Posted by terrepruitt on November 23, 2018
We went to Capitola to have breakfast on Thanksgiving as we have done the last three years. Nothing was open for a full breakfast, but we got coffee and a burrito (John) and a bagel (me) at Mr. Toot’s. I had never been there so I was happy. It was a GORGEOUS day. We had just gotten a bit of rain and that helped wash the air of the smoke that we have been having from the fire that was almost 200 miles away.
We had a nice time. It was so beautiful I took a bunch of pictures I have to share at least one for the Friday Photo.
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Posted by terrepruitt on August 17, 2018
Here is a Calla Lily for today’s Friday Photo. I love Calla Lilies. I think I love all lilies. How about you?
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Posted by terrepruitt on November 24, 2017
The weather was great in Capitola yesterday, Thanksgiving 2017. The past two years we have been going “over the hill” (that is what we call it because we have to drive over a hill) for breakfast on Thanksgiving. The first year was easy. The second . . . not so much as we couldn’t find any place open that we wanted to go to. But we ended up where we didn’t know that we wanted to be and it was fine. This year all the places we called were not open, but we found a place serving breakfast anyway and it worked out ok. It was not hot nor cold. The temperature was great. But it was so bright, I couldn’t see to take pictures. I did take a few anyway . . . but I didn’t really know what they looked like. They turned out ok. Here is one shot from Twin Lakes for the Friday Photo.
Did you have a nice Thanksgiving?
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Posted by terrepruitt on November 10, 2017
This is a bag made of recycled plastic. I bought it as a gift for a friend years ago. I thought it was cute. So I took a picture. Not a very good picture. But, it is definitely one of those pictures that I have no place to share. I think that the cool thing about the bag is that it was made from recycled plastic bags. But I don’t remember. I bought it over a year ago and gifted it almost over a year ago.
A pink plastic bag with shoes on it for today’s Friday Photo.
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