Nacho Casserole
Monday, February 16, 2009
Easy peasy, and pretty darned good!
1 can cheddar cheese soup
1/2 c. milk (any type)
12oz picante sauce (I used mild)
1lb. ground beef, cooked, drained, & finely crumbled
7oz corn chips
10oz can refried beans
1c. shredded cheddar
1 sm. can chopped green chilies
sliced black olives if desired
In a glass 13x9 mix soup with milk.
Spoon half of picante sauce on top and spread as evenly as possible with spoon back.
Layer 1/2 of corn chips over picante.
Layer cooked ground beef.
Layer refried beans.
Layer rest of corn chips.
Add rest of picante over top.
Top with shredded cheddar, green chilies and black olives if desired.
Bake at 400F for 20 minutes.
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Thank you!
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Sonja had a contest just before Christmas and I was the lucky winner. Pop over to see her, she has a sweet blog.
WHO.COULD.NOT.ENTER.A.CONTEST.FOR.CHOCOLATE???
I may be the last to fall off the turnip truck, but I had not ever seen a Kinder Egg up close or personal, lol. These are darling trinkets.
The eggs are hollow and have a smaller plastic egg inside. The trinkets inside are precious and very detailed...not to mention CHOCOLATE. O, yummy.
I saved 2 for
dd#2, since she told me about the contest. Had to share. 8^)
Thanks Sonja!
Labels: Blog contest
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Tombstone Caching
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Look at this worthy geocacher, ready to walk miles and miles (and miles)...ok, so it's usually not more than ONE mile, lol. But UP hill, of course.
We found El Diablo's Treasure cache today. It's clearly the best staged one we've found so far. It was just outside of Tombstone, AZ, which is where the OK Corral was and where Wyatt Earp and associates had their famous shoot-out. So, you'd expect the unexpected, right? It was published to be a "Halloween" cache and definately was not meant to disturb or make fun of anyone's beliefs, etc.
A plastic skeleton, a HUGE rubber spider, and the area was surrounded with skulls on fence posts. I first thought it was a burial ground, and didn't want to enter!
One happy hubby displaying a necklace of bones!
On to the next cache. It was 8' off of the roadside. It's pretty creepy looking near someone's house, but the GPS is rarely wrong, and what are you gonna do? It was in the removable cap on the top of a fence post. You need to be clever when looking for these silly things. I happened to notice that the cap had a bolt in the end. Hmmm...not normal.
It was suspended on a wire hanging from the bolt in the cap. Ta-dah! We hit paydirt again!
A little bit of Tombstone for you, a hot afternoon in the Sonoran Desert.
Can you imagine walking down these streets with all those petticoats and high-buttoned shoes? Ick.
Wilcox tomorrow!
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Nanocache ka-ching!
Sunday, January 11, 2009
We were 6 for 6 out geocaching today.
Geocache-spoil-alert. Don't read if you intend to geocache Tucson!
You can't beat the weather, it's been around 64 degrees F most of the day. Saturdays are usually chore day, Sundays are getting to be our favorite geocaching day (pronounced geo-cashing, btw).
It was so small, my dh thought it was a magnet and the cache was lost! Inside, (the piece on the left) you can see the tiny scrolled paper where you log your name and date. Screw the sides back together and place it exactly as you found it.
Our new found hobby is cutting into my sewing time, but as the summer in the desert gets closer, we'll stay closer to home and away from the rattlesnakes!
Two daughters have recently ordered their own GPS units, dd#2 is geocaching while she is visiting in Ohio, dd#3 is out geocaching while waiting for #2 who's getting her hair cut & colored. The dd#1 has downloaded the program to her IPhone. I think we started something!
Wanna join us?
Labels: Geocaching
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"It's COOL because Holly does it!"
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Peer pressure.
I needed to do it to be cool.
Made me feel better to be like everyone else.
Balderdash.
It looked sooooo cool, I wanted to do it.
Needed to do it.
Holly first got me interested, but I let the idea stew. Then I bought Dh a GPS *snicker*.
Where are they going?
WHAT are they doing?
ew.EW! What IS she pointing to?
She's lost her marbles? Maybe she's found them?
YES...YES...YES! She found it. 2 other noble pirates looking for the treasure and the MOTHER found it
This egg was a "microcache". It carries only a visitor log. This was my second find. Boooooring, lol.
BUT! Look at the booty this first GEOCACHE yielded. Score! You take one item, and put another in. You make it home, and long onto
www.geocache.com and record your find, and the items you both took and added. We took the rusty nail, and replaced it with a Brazilian coin. (It's to be of equal value.)
So we are now addicted to Geocaching. What fun. What strenuous exercise! I ache all over! Guess that's good for me. We live in the Sonoran Desert, but there are ALOT of mountains and they are prime location for great hiding places. Mountains, rocks, sandy dry river washes, etc.
What is geocaching? You use your GPS (global positioning system) and enter the longitude and latitude of a prospective hiding place. Getting to it is one thing, FINDING it is another. As you can see above, the parcels can be of different variety, and can be buried, tied to a tree, covered in rocks, magnetized to something...anything the hider can think up.
These two finds were last week, and today we found 2 more. What fun, but boy am I pooped.
Great way to start out our New Year, and a fun family activity for my Dh, dd and me. Dh and daughter and dd have even gone out geocaching WITHOUT ME! Heaven forbid.
Labels: Geocaching
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2008 Christmas Gift
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Last year, Marcie from
Patchalot More generously published a pattern for free public use. It was an adorable Christmas Table Topper. Lots of suggestions for variations, and easy instructions. THANKS MARCIE for all you do! She posted another pattern this year as well, so please visit her too!
I made two versions, but you're only going to see ONE. Just as I inserted the second photo in my blog today, I noticed a glaring error. I should never have looked, I'm sooooooooooooo sad. Dh says "chalk it up to experience." I left out an entire row of inner border.
Yes, I know, "We've all done it."
Yes, I know, "It's your humility piece." AND HOW. I
knew they weren't the same. I
knew for some reason they weren't the same size, one came out more rectangular. I never,
ever stopped to look at them to see why tho. (grumble, grumble)
I don't know which of two brother's families received which table topper. I couldn't get to any decision of who should get which. I'm mortified tho, and that's something that goes
way under the skin.
I'll pull on my big-girl-panties now and move on.
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Lesson I learned - No matter how hard you try, nope girl, ya ain't perfect.
Something that made me happy today - Two gifts created with my own hands, for ones I love.
Bonus - Using mostly stash for my gifts! 8^)
Labels: Completions
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Finding Lost Loved Ones
Friday, November 28, 2008
Back in the day, you could blame distance for lack of communication. Remember when Grandma would call and you would really hustle to talk “LONG DISTANCE?”
How many of you have lost communication with someone you held dear because of elapsing time? Some one moves away, you loose a phone number, delete a phone message in error. Any number of things can get away, not to mention family crisis, divorce, and the obligatory responses.
If you don’t already fear it, the internet is your friend, your ally.
Fifteen years ago, my Venezuelan son went missing. (Figuratively) I managed 6 counties for Youth For Understanding, and Oscar was my exchange student placement in my home. During the year he was in our home, our whole family fell in love with this boy, etching his place in our heart forever. Returning to Venezuela was our last real contact with him. The phone system was less than idealic, he would call and virtually yell, “MOM??” The line would promptly go dead. It’d ring again, we’d answer, it’d go dead. Ultimately VERY depressing, we wanted and needed to connect, but never did.
We’ve never forgotten this sweet boy.
Thru the years I’ve resorted to reading Venezuelan phonebooks. I don’t speak Spanish, lol, but I would not be deterred. I even looked in their Yellow Pages under both of his parent’s professions. Blah.
I have searched thru AOL’s database, ICQ database, Yahoo’d, Google’d, and come up empty-handed.
Dd#2 encouraged me to sign onto Facebook a few months back. Mmmm…a new database I could utilize. I did search his name, with no success.
A few nights ago I had the brilliant idea to search for Oscar’s younger and older sister’s names. Several entries appeared, but lo and behold, one sister’s “friend” list contained the other sister’s name.
I.was.speechless. I eagerly sent an identical message to both possibilities, and the younger sister wrote back immediately. She gave me Oscar’s email address, and I have no reconnected with our sweet MAN. OMG, he’s married! He’s got 2 little girls! He’s all grown up! (How did that happen?)
I also helped another blogger find some missing friends. The world may be big, but I’ve been shown once again, just how very small it really is.
On another note, look a few posts back, and go to my
dd#2’s blog. She has another contest!
Labels: erika jean, Oscar
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