With winter in full swing in parts of the Northern Hemisphere and creeping ever closer in others, thoughts turn to a comforting mug of soup. But I’m a raw vegan, right? Right! That doesn’t leave me out in the cold, though. Follow the pictures and the directions below and you can have some yummy raw [...]

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I’m trying something new this week. This will be a true journal but it will be seven days in one post. I’ll write a summary of each day while it’s still fresh in my mind. We’ll see how it goes. I may or may not keep it up. Sunday It was pleasantly warm with low [...]

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Today, I got my second shipment of persimmons from Dario Grossberger at www.cherimoya.com. I made sure I had my camera at the ready so I could take pictures as I unpacked them. First, if orders are in multiples of two, he puts the contents of two regular boxes into one large flat rate box. This [...]

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Once again, it was back to the employment office. One of my former clients at the beauty shop worked there. It didn’t really give me an edge but it helped to know I had friends in important places. I registered with the appropriate representative and hoped for the best. In addition to that, I prayed [...]

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Once upon a time, I was very fond of prickly pear jelly. When we lived in Nebraska, I was in hog heaven with so much prickly pear cacti around. I made use of DH’s welding gloves and a pair of tongs to pick them and harvested enough to make a batch of the good stuff. [...]

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Dario had promised to let me know when the persimmons could be ordered. As he said, I beat him to the punch and went to the web site. There they were! Woohoo! And this year, since I ordered multiples of two, he packed them in large flat rate boxes which cut down considerably on the [...]

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