Christmas Baking and Preparation

I sure do love those Christmas Cookies, Sugar… Tabouli!   Aunt Dynda on the left and my mom Where did all the Leek Potato Soup go!?  It was delicious…so good that it was all gone before I could even get a picture.  Mom and I forgot to add the last big hunk of butter so…

Florida Pre Christmas Vacation

Pensacola Beach on a gloomy weathered day Fort Pickens National Seashore has an awesome RV park… Scored some fresh dinner to prepare from Joe Patti’s Seafood Spiked Organic Eggnog with freshly grated nutmeg and cinnamon  My final brunch in Florida and also my first Blenna with the “Louy Wallbanger” to drink

Oktoberfests–Tahoe style

I think he could handle one that big if he could just get it off the ground enough to tilt it down the hatch.  Here is where we enjoyed a bite to eat for lunch and a nice German beer while sharing a picnic table with some friendly locals. Oktoberfest number 2 of the day…

Roaming around Montreal

                                                           Canadian Maple Delights: my favorite store in Canada!   

Tahoe’s Emerald Bay

Emerald Bay State ParkMost extraordinaire location for a home! Vikingsholm  is a 38-room mansion built mostly from materials found in the bay in 1929 as a summer home!  Fannette Island is the only island in Lake Tahoe, California/Nevada.  It is located within Emerald Bay, on the California side of the lake.Fannette Island was the former home…