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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
I found it?? Remember that bumper sticker?
So, I am walking home from my volunteer time at the children's dental clinic. Photos to follow, and Denny comes driving by and offers to give me a ride home. ( I walk pretty much every where these days)
I am settling into the seat, and taking a swig of my bottled water; when Denny says, " I saw Jesus today!" I swear, I coughed and choked until the water I was drinking came out my nose and partially covered the windshield. I look at him in disbelief, I mean we are not heathens, but we are not bible thumpers either.
"On the rock" says he. "The rock in the shrine at the end of the Malacon" Denny and I have studied that rock in its pretty nitch many times on our morning walk, people come from all around to see it, light candles, bringing flowers and just pray. We have never seen any thing imprinted in that silly rock. "No way!" I say "Yes" Denny says "We have just been there when the sun was wrong." Sure enough, he drove me down the street to prove his point. I wiped the slobber off the windshield and there it was, I didn't even have to get out of the car. We came home and looked at the photo I had taken a month ago, and had not paid attention to, and there really is, an image of a bearded man!
The Children's Dental Clinic, is run by Snow Birds that live here in the winter. They have gotten a group of volunteer Dentists and assistants, from a group named STRETCH, to come every year and examine and treat the children of the village. This is their 6 or 7th year. They saw and treated over 800 children in the 3 weeks they were here! I sure hope the people of this little town realize and appreciate the great gift that is given to their children every year. I worked with exam charting and could see marked improvement in the dental history of these kids. Some charts of 4 years ago filled with cavities to a no cavity exam 2-3 years in a row! WOW . The equipment is probably out dated, but it does look and work like a real dentist treatment room. The exam room is out side with the kids in plastic patio chairs leaning back into the exam dentists lap. Enjoy the photos...
Now if I can just buy some small bottles and sell Holy water at the shrine, we will have our house built in no time! Will have to come up with a catchy label...Humm. I better quit while I am ahead.
I am settling into the seat, and taking a swig of my bottled water; when Denny says, " I saw Jesus today!" I swear, I coughed and choked until the water I was drinking came out my nose and partially covered the windshield. I look at him in disbelief, I mean we are not heathens, but we are not bible thumpers either.
"On the rock" says he. "The rock in the shrine at the end of the Malacon" Denny and I have studied that rock in its pretty nitch many times on our morning walk, people come from all around to see it, light candles, bringing flowers and just pray. We have never seen any thing imprinted in that silly rock. "No way!" I say "Yes" Denny says "We have just been there when the sun was wrong." Sure enough, he drove me down the street to prove his point. I wiped the slobber off the windshield and there it was, I didn't even have to get out of the car. We came home and looked at the photo I had taken a month ago, and had not paid attention to, and there really is, an image of a bearded man!
Now if I can just buy some small bottles and sell Holy water at the shrine, we will have our house built in no time! Will have to come up with a catchy label...Humm. I better quit while I am ahead.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Ahh! Sundays
I love Sundays! But now that we are retired, is Sunday any different than Wednesday? Well I guess so, for now anyway. As you all know I have a restaurant background and love to cook. Thought I would be sick of cooking by now, and not eating in a restaurant everyday I would be loosing mega pounds, pounds just melting off every week....wrong.
Our corner market has a yard full of chickens and we have been enjoying fresh eggs from their ground fed hens. Yesterday I made home made sausage for our breakfast today. We really do try to limit breakfast meat to Sundays. The sausage was yummy, and I think healthy too, as there are no preservatives and very little salt in it. The pork was so lean I really did have to put PAM on the griddle. Then there were the potatoes, better that I not mention the butter, cheese, crumbled bacon and green onions that put them right over the top! But, HECK, it is Sunday!
A Rancher gave us a big bowl of fresh tomatoes and Tomatillos, made the green sauce a few days ago, and have the Roma tomatoes simmering on the stove. I have even been making our own Whole Wheat Bread. Hate fast food ..So what is my problem with the weight?
Conversation with my Dr. in February.
Judie: "I really know a lot about, and eat very healthy and nutritious food"
Dr. "Yes Judie, I understand that, you just eat too much healthy nutritious food! "
Damn Him!
Ok so once and a while I will post recipes. Here is how to make wonderful Breakfast Sausage , so quick and easy. This calls for 2 pounds of lean pork, you could use half turkey, I think all turkey may be too dry. Give it a try. Eat your heart out Jimmy Dean!
Mix in a bowl: Makes about, 16, 2 ounce patties.
2 pounds of lean ground pork
3 teaspoons dried sage
2 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
1tsp marjoram
1 TBL brown sugar
1 tsp red pepper flakes (to your heat taste)
4 big cloves fine minced garlic
and because I had fresh rosemary I put small chopped leaves from 3 pretty long sprigs in.
I made it the night before to let the flavors meld. Make into patties and fry on lightly greased (PAM) griddle on Med heat until just cooked through. Please do not over cook and crisp and dry them up. Remember a recipe like this is only a guide, mix up your spices, do what want. Baking cakes and such, you need to follow directions.
I just have to add, that at exactly noon, Denny asked me "what's for lunch?" Sorry Charlie, your on your own today for lunch.
Top. Javier minding the store, Whole Foods and Mega it is not! Middle: Their little market, just 50 steps from our gate. Bottom: Maria gathering eggs, from the side yard, for our breakfast Tomorrow.
Our corner market has a yard full of chickens and we have been enjoying fresh eggs from their ground fed hens. Yesterday I made home made sausage for our breakfast today. We really do try to limit breakfast meat to Sundays. The sausage was yummy, and I think healthy too, as there are no preservatives and very little salt in it. The pork was so lean I really did have to put PAM on the griddle. Then there were the potatoes, better that I not mention the butter, cheese, crumbled bacon and green onions that put them right over the top! But, HECK, it is Sunday!
A Rancher gave us a big bowl of fresh tomatoes and Tomatillos, made the green sauce a few days ago, and have the Roma tomatoes simmering on the stove. I have even been making our own Whole Wheat Bread. Hate fast food ..So what is my problem with the weight?
Conversation with my Dr. in February.
Judie: "I really know a lot about, and eat very healthy and nutritious food"
Dr. "Yes Judie, I understand that, you just eat too much healthy nutritious food! "
Damn Him!
Ok so once and a while I will post recipes. Here is how to make wonderful Breakfast Sausage , so quick and easy. This calls for 2 pounds of lean pork, you could use half turkey, I think all turkey may be too dry. Give it a try. Eat your heart out Jimmy Dean!
Mix in a bowl: Makes about, 16, 2 ounce patties.
2 pounds of lean ground pork
3 teaspoons dried sage
2 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
1tsp marjoram
1 TBL brown sugar
1 tsp red pepper flakes (to your heat taste)
4 big cloves fine minced garlic
and because I had fresh rosemary I put small chopped leaves from 3 pretty long sprigs in.
I made it the night before to let the flavors meld. Make into patties and fry on lightly greased (PAM) griddle on Med heat until just cooked through. Please do not over cook and crisp and dry them up. Remember a recipe like this is only a guide, mix up your spices, do what want. Baking cakes and such, you need to follow directions.
I just have to add, that at exactly noon, Denny asked me "what's for lunch?" Sorry Charlie, your on your own today for lunch.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Bloggging, Flogging, 1st day of what ever!
Judie here, trying my hand at a blog. Some folks say I should write a book about Denny's and my 14 years of adventures, of owning and running Buzzards Bar and Grill and La Fonda del Mar Bed and Breakfast, in Los Cabos, Baja Ca. Mexico. Easy says my friend Sofia, who has a wonderful Blog. So, here I go! Wrong, just because I live in Dislexico the people at Google decided I needed all the blog instructions in Spanish, being computer impaired it only took me 2 hours to get this far!
Well, we sold the business and have retired to mainland Mexico. Teacapan, Sinaloa to be exact. The name of my blog is, " Salsa! A little of this a little of that!" The subject of the blog will mainly be about our new experiences of moving to a nothing little Mexican Village after 14 years of the Cabo scene. Hoping to mix the new slow paced life style, building a new house, the old Buzzard Bar mayhem and some new recipes thrown in, into something some folks may want to read.
That my friends is "Salsa! A little of this a little of that! "
Since I have sent out family and friend new letters for years, I am not going to repeat the reasons for the 6 week delay and the ferry and car trauma, I will start with arriving inTeacapan.
I am going to try to send a photo of the first place of business I visited, the Beauty Shop of course! I was in dire need of a pedicure! To compare Imagine the Paul Mitchell Salon and Rebecca in Los Cabos and de Belleza Angel in Teacapan is like...well you can not compare. There was a hair washing sink, with no running water to it and a bucket under it. Condition? You don't want to know! The walls had a natural cement block hue, sin plaster. There were many pretty hair posters covering up who knows what. A big mirror with kiddy stickers all over it. And a huge display of Claws! I mean those 2 inch longfalse finger nails all painted with stars stripes and glitter. One set had the whole Lords Prayer written on it! I swear!
The owner looked about 12 and said sure she could help me, put down her comic book, and filled an electric foot massage tub out in the yard with the hose. She brought it in and plugged it in, and low and behold I was not electrocuted and really enjoyed the ice water bubbles...well kind of.
She got out her tools from a shoe box and Thank You, Thank You! soaked them all in straight alcohol while I was freezing my ass off in the comfort of the massaging ice water foot bath. All was going well and if I closed my eyes I could almost imagine Rebeca or Phyllis working on my feet. Until she got out that razor thing! OMG! She went to work on my heels like Paul Rini grating Parmesan Cheese at Zacs! And the floor around me looked just like someone had grated a bunch of Parmesan too. Yikes! No harm no foul, all toes painted purple and accounted for. One thing she didn't do was a massage and lotion after, but that was Ok, I was ready, I mean really ready to go home any way. Oh the cost? $100.00 pesos about $8.50 U.S.
Two days later, Denny really needs a hair cut and so do I, so we go in search of the other shop with the "mature" owner. Given the condition of Angles sink, I warned Denny to wash his hair at home like I did. Can't find the other shop, so go back to Angels. Different girl sitting it the chair working on blond hair extensions. Turned out it was her little sister watching the shop that gave me the pedicure. How very nice! I had to do a quick check again to make sure there were still 10 toes down there. I went first, Denny followed and we both got good hair cuts. I have no idea what the combs were cleaned in, but it has been a week and no cooties! Cost $30.00 pesos each..about $2.50 U.S.
I hate to put a price tag on every thing, but I really think it is fun to compare.
OK, now to post the photo. It is in my computer. I have no idea where this will end up. I guess on facebook, that is where I read Sofia's and Marlos Blogs.
Hum do not see attach photo, Found it! Hope you can too!
Well, we sold the business and have retired to mainland Mexico. Teacapan, Sinaloa to be exact. The name of my blog is, " Salsa! A little of this a little of that!" The subject of the blog will mainly be about our new experiences of moving to a nothing little Mexican Village after 14 years of the Cabo scene. Hoping to mix the new slow paced life style, building a new house, the old Buzzard Bar mayhem and some new recipes thrown in, into something some folks may want to read.
That my friends is "Salsa! A little of this a little of that! "
Since I have sent out family and friend new letters for years, I am not going to repeat the reasons for the 6 week delay and the ferry and car trauma, I will start with arriving inTeacapan.
I am going to try to send a photo of the first place of business I visited, the Beauty Shop of course! I was in dire need of a pedicure! To compare Imagine the Paul Mitchell Salon and Rebecca in Los Cabos and de Belleza Angel in Teacapan is like...well you can not compare. There was a hair washing sink, with no running water to it and a bucket under it. Condition? You don't want to know! The walls had a natural cement block hue, sin plaster. There were many pretty hair posters covering up who knows what. A big mirror with kiddy stickers all over it. And a huge display of Claws! I mean those 2 inch longfalse finger nails all painted with stars stripes and glitter. One set had the whole Lords Prayer written on it! I swear!
The owner looked about 12 and said sure she could help me, put down her comic book, and filled an electric foot massage tub out in the yard with the hose. She brought it in and plugged it in, and low and behold I was not electrocuted and really enjoyed the ice water bubbles...well kind of.
She got out her tools from a shoe box and Thank You, Thank You! soaked them all in straight alcohol while I was freezing my ass off in the comfort of the massaging ice water foot bath. All was going well and if I closed my eyes I could almost imagine Rebeca or Phyllis working on my feet. Until she got out that razor thing! OMG! She went to work on my heels like Paul Rini grating Parmesan Cheese at Zacs! And the floor around me looked just like someone had grated a bunch of Parmesan too. Yikes! No harm no foul, all toes painted purple and accounted for. One thing she didn't do was a massage and lotion after, but that was Ok, I was ready, I mean really ready to go home any way. Oh the cost? $100.00 pesos about $8.50 U.S.
Two days later, Denny really needs a hair cut and so do I, so we go in search of the other shop with the "mature" owner. Given the condition of Angles sink, I warned Denny to wash his hair at home like I did. Can't find the other shop, so go back to Angels. Different girl sitting it the chair working on blond hair extensions. Turned out it was her little sister watching the shop that gave me the pedicure. How very nice! I had to do a quick check again to make sure there were still 10 toes down there. I went first, Denny followed and we both got good hair cuts. I have no idea what the combs were cleaned in, but it has been a week and no cooties! Cost $30.00 pesos each..about $2.50 U.S.
I hate to put a price tag on every thing, but I really think it is fun to compare.
OK, now to post the photo. It is in my computer. I have no idea where this will end up. I guess on facebook, that is where I read Sofia's and Marlos Blogs.
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