Meet Buddy Boy - A Turkish Van

Buddy Boy

Turkish Van

Buddy Boy is absolutely my aunt's very best friend. He is a Turkish Van. He is a cat of rare qualities and being a Turkish Van, he has definite personality traits. A little plaque my aunt has states,

"Thousands of years ago cats were worshipped as gods...

Cats have never forgotten this"

He is the boss of the house!

Turkish Vans like water... which sets them apart from any cat I've ever known.

He provides so much comfort and companionship to my aunt though that

we all love him too.

Make a visit to Mitford!!

I was fortunate to meet Jan Karon in Blowing Rock

Today I am recommending that you jump on over to From a Writer's Kitchen. This truly wonderful writer is describing in story form about her visit to Blowing Rock, North Carolina aka Mitford to all of us Jan Karon fans. If you have never read the Mitford series, please treat yourself to a very enjoyable summer experience!

http://fromawriterskitchen.blogspot.com/2010/05/visit-to-mitford-autumn-stalking_19.html

Ms. Karon was the honoree for the Mitford Days celebration

in Blowing Rock in 2007

Thank you, Jessica@Thoughts of A Bama Belle!

I actually won a prize! Wow! Thank you, Jessica at "Thoughts of a Bama Belle". You can find her at http://thoughts-of-a-bama-belle.blogspot.com/. And check out that fabulous crab salad she has featured right now.
I'll be featuring my prize when I receive it so please check back often to see it!
Karen

Celebrating Foodie Friday with desserts from Guadalajara

This beautiful flan was served with a sugar crystal topping... for lack of a better word. It was not one of the better flans that we have eaten as you can see the textures is a little grainy.

This is a creme brulee served with fresh fruit a stick of white and dark chocolate

and a chocolate wafer. The star fruit was a nice touch as well as the plum, strawberry, dewberry and raspberry.

I am linking to Designs by Gollum

http://designsbygollum.blogspot.com/

for

Foodie Friday

It's White Wednesday and I'm working with my milk glass

Most of these pieces of milk glass came from my mother. (Ooops... just realized I left a set of salt and pepper shakers in there by accident!)

One of my favorite pieces is the one just above that is actually for bananas.

My mother kept this on her hutch for years.

Also, the bowl in the third picture is

also a favorite.

I'm still working with this and trying to figure out a way to "jazz" it up a bit. But just wanted to participate in White Wednesday.

If you like the clean, crisp look of white

visit Faded Charm for

White Wednesday

                                   http://fadedcharmcottage.blogspot.com/

Our honeydew fields in Mexico

This is a favorite picture of one of our honeydew fields in Mexico.

And this is one of my all-time favorite pictures taken at

one of our farms in Mexico.

It just doesn't matter where you live. The evening and sunsets are one of the most beautiful times of the day.

We finished this year's honeydew season today.

It's a great feeling!