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East of eatin’

Posted on June 27, 2017 16 Comments

Summer is finally upon us and it roared into Santa Clarita with a vengeance. It has been hovering around 100F for over a week. This is the time I begin dreaming of snow and even the Hallmark Channel’s Christmas in July seems like a high point, LOL! We’ve been back and forth to San Diego. […]

Up-stares Down-stares

Posted on February 17, 2017 13 Comments

OK, everyone, I feel badly. It has been how many weeks since I last posted? I admit it. My schedule has been overwhelmed and I don’t know with what really, as things have been somewhat unremarkable but jam-packed. I am back up at our main place in Valencia and have had a chance to recover […]

SLO-bound

Posted on July 17, 2015 16 Comments

It’s time for some more newsy miniutiae about the summer and my schedule. We have been running all over the Central California coast, previewing places to take Anna while she is here this summer and at Christmas. Our destination last week was San Luis Obispo (SLO, as the signs say all over that area). I will […]

Neither ruthful nor …

Posted on January 30, 2014 14 Comments

… veracious. After we listened to Obama’s SOTU, I forced myself to sit through one of the multifarious opposing “responses”. Geoffrey walked the dog, unable to stomach what followed. It was no response at all, of course. Clearly they write this flummery without acknowledging what the President actually said, even though I am fairly sure […]

Butter cookies

Posted on January 19, 2014 16 Comments

After all the sturm und drang in my recent posts, I thought it was time for a Master baking formula. There are a few professional formulas that I can point to, which I have mastered myself, that I know are utterly fool-proof, and produce a perfect product, every single time. That is, as long as you […]