Back from...wherever I've been!

Original start date of post - Sept 26
This is one of my favorite shots from a recent trip to Lily's Cookies with Mark to restock the honey inventory. I love the bright, super clean looking shop and I love the treats they make there. Also a joy to stop by there and I'm so glad I found it. And I'm so happy they are carrying our honey and now they actually have the Tx Mesquite Honey Cookie. COOL. Very cool. :)

Been a busy time - traveling...

Date I realized I never posted this - October 26 (haha)
...and apparently I was so busy that I didn’t even finish what I started here. LOL. So, to pick up where I left off, I had been doing a bit of traveling for work lately though nothing like in the past. I’m a little sad about that because I really miss teaching and meeting our workers out in the other parts of the US. Not sure I’ll ever get to go overseas at this point, but you never know. I’m ready to go if necessary.

We have been super busy with the Gretchen Bee Ranch biz – I call it GBR now. Lots of fairs, festivals and markets. Phew. It’s a lot of work but mostly a lot of fun. We love meeting new people and we also love sharing some great tasting honey. Plus we are learning a lot. Everyday. About bees. About business. About web stuff. Sigh. It’s a little draining, I have to admit, but I wish I could do it full-time with Mark. That’s our goal so we’ll just keep plugging away until one day, before we know it, I’ll just HAVE to commit full-time to it. After all, we must grow our Bee Empire! As an aside, I think we are beginning to get recognized by people around town. At the least, I know people call Mark the “Bee Man” and if I am with him, then they recognize us from our label picture. hehe

Okay so before I leave you, and hopefully this time not for so long, I ponder the following:

Why does this shot have 119 views?


While this shot has 197 views?


And this shot has 507 views??


I can only guess that people think boots on actual feet are a lot more appealing to the eye than boots just sitting in the house, which is still more appealing than boots just sitting on the shelf at the store. I don't know why this struck me but I was looking at my Flickr statistics and it caught my attention. And my most popular picture???? I shall post it later this week. You'll see why.

Hot, hot, hot!

I wish I was in some refreshingly cool water right about now. Just came in from running errands. It is blazing hot again. I think we're at day 43 or 44 of the 100+ degrees. Crazy hot. Doesn't this water look awesome? It's on Town Lake up in Austin when we went canoeing up there with Mark's brother from CT and his family. I loved the clear waters as well as the wildlife we saw (Herons, fish, turtles...the dogs I could have lived without. Austinites love to take their dogs EVERYWHERE, lol.).

Waiting for Mark to return home and then we're headed to Sonia's mom's house to make a Vietnamese feast of eggrolls and fried rice. I haven't done that in a long time so we're all looking forward to it and I hope it turns out yummy. Gonna be a hot day to fry some eggrolls but at least they have a pool we can jump in afterwards!

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. And HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Sarah! :)

Cooking is so relaxing

This is one of my favorite dishes to make. It's relaxing to come home and put on some music and then start preparing a great tasting dish. I love the flavors of the alfredo sauce on the pasta and I also love the spinach in the crusty chicken. Nice texture. Yum. I cooked the spinach with garlic, pine nuts and mozzarella. Then I rolled it inside the tenderized chicken breast, pinned it with a toothpick and then rolled the whole thing bread crumbs and parmesan. Baked for 40 minutes.

Travel update: Since my last post, a trip has been added. :) End of the month, back to the west coast; San Jose area down to Claremont area again. LOL. So much for no traveling until mid-November.