If you live in the South there are two things you will see a lot of, Ivy and Pine Cones:
Ivy Leaf and Pinecone
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Here’s Dinner for us on many Monday nights:
Day 23-Taco Salad
On most weeks we have a regular Monday dinner of what we call Taco Salad. We used to eat a lot of burritos on Monday’s but since we have cut way back on processed foods. beans and grains, this is a perfect substitute. Here’s the “recipe” if you can call it that:
- 1 lb 80/20 ground beef cooked and seasoned with chili powder and/or cayenne pepper to taste
- 1-2 hearts of Romaine washed and chopped
- tomato chopped
- a handful of shredded Mexican cheese
- Salsa of your choice (we usually use a Mango salsa we get from Costco)
- a dollop of full-fat sour cream
Sometimes we have Avocado with this as well.
The end result is a filling dinner that takes all of 10 minutes to make. Highly recommended!
Oct 282011
For this week’s Friday Photo Share I’d like to share an image of a small animal that we encountered while on our trip out West. This little guy was waiting for us in the bathroom when both of us got up in the dark to use the facilities while at the hotel in Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley:
Our Pet Scorpion
Yup, it was a Scorpion. He was sitting (do scorpions sit?) right on the threshold between the room and the bathroom. I was the first to get up and I walked into the bathroom barefooted, used the toilet, and stumbled back to bed, all in the dark and without noticing it. Pam got up after me and she was smart enough to turn on the light, at which point she said “hey, look at what’s sitting on the floor!”
When I saw it I realized that I was very lucky because it was sitting very close to where I walked. If I would have stepped on it I’m sure I would have gotten stung by it. As far as I know I’m not allergic to Scorpions but I’ve never been stung by one. I guess the Scorpions that inhabit Death Valley are not deadly, so that was comforting 
.After I took this picture with our Canon PowerShot S95
That was my first mistaken encounter with a Scorpion and I don’t want another. They are kind of cool animals though and Pam was quick to remind me that her high school mascot was the Scorpions (she grew up in New Mexico).
I’m hard at work going through all the images I took while out there and I hope to recount our trip over a few posts in the coming week or so. I promise that there are no more Scorpion pictures. Stay tuned…
Happy shooting!