I have been cooking with so much turmeric recently for the anti inflammatory agents found in turmeric root. Not surprisingly my finger tips are dyed orange, my dishes are dyed orange and most of my cats contain a light dusting of turmeric. This is the cats damn fault. They should know better than to be …
I was planning to write a post about how to harvest nopales. I don’t actually care for nopales but I saw so many juicy succulent ones today on our hike on the PCT (Pacific Crest Trail) that I thought to myself, how hard could it be to take those big quills out of the cactus …
After spending fourteen years of my life working forty to fifty hours a week it is so weird to not be working. At the moment I’m on disability recovering from back surgery. My boyfriend says I’m like a hyper chipmunk most days, I have so much energy and am just running from one task to …
Fifty seven minutes. It’s been fifty seven minutes since the damned parking meter ate my credit card and I’m fuming and dancing around my car doing the potty dance. Being that this is Southern California it took me over forty-five minutes to drive in heavily congested Orange County traffic to Newport Beach this morning even …
It’s mid August and I’m camping at over seven thousand feet and I’m freezing cold. Seriously! Yes, that is right; I said August! What is with this summer that does not actually feel like summer? I’m ready for those summer days of swimming in crisp alpine lakes, but the water not being so cold that it makes me …