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Avocado Pesto

I tried my first avocado while getting ready for a party for this past Super Bowl. My friend Susan, asked me to make guacamole. "YUCK!" I thought, but if that is what she wants me to make, that is what I will make. I ended up eating half of the green goodness before anyone else got...

Family, Featured, Food, Friends, Grilling, Health, RecipeJuly 16, 2013NanetteComments are closed Permalink

The Baker Hotel

The Crazy Water marvel brought forth the need for more sleeping facilities, and the Crazy Hotel was built by a Dallas man, Carr P. Collins in 1927. The Crazy Hotel featured 200 guest rooms, shops, a dining room, doctor's office, florist, barbershop, bookstore, recreation department, drinking pavilion and a bathhouse. This seven story hotel also...

Adventure, Back Roads, Children, Family, Featured, Health, History, Life, small towns, Texas, Time, TravelJuly 10, 2013NanetteComments are closed Permalink

There’s Crazy Water here!

I got on Hwy 281 in Lampasas, Texas and headed north to a town named Mineral Wells. Mineral Wells got its name from the mineral springs in the area, and were famously popular in the early 1900's. Texas is known to have the second most mineral springs in any state with Wyoming having the most. In 1877,...

Adventure, Featured, Health, History, small towns, Texas, Time, TravelJune 28, 2013NanetteComments are closed Permalink

They do it right!

Driving down the back roads of northern Indiana, I happened upon a farm on county road 75 E, owned by Jim and Peggy DeCamp. They are organic farmers and have been doing so for the past 30 plus years. This past January,...