Dream Dinners – the Final Act

This week we tried the last two dinners from our stash. Schlepping kids to and from soccer practice and football practice makes it hard to fix dinner and eat together but we used the dream dinners this week to divide and conquer. Act 5 – Aztec Steaks with Black Bean Rice The steaks get rubbed…

Summer Garden Spoils – Part 2

This post is a followup to the Summer Gardens at the Their Best. On our all school clean up day, part of the clean up efforts focused on the CLC Garden and harvesting what was left from the summer. It turned out to be  a fabulous “CLC Farmer’s Market.” I even got to harvest some…

Summer Gardens at Their Best

Yesterday I was at the kids’ school to dropping off some things before school starts next week. Last week at a meeting, the Educare Director told me there were beans, chard, and kale to pick along with some other things.  Given that it was a week later, I figured we were going to be too…

Delivering the Happy Cat Toys

We finally delivered the Happy Cat Toys, made from orphaned socks and cat nip, to the cat shelter this weekend. Only McKinley was able to come along on our visit to the Peninsula Humane Society in San Mateo. We arrived at the shelter and went in to check out the cats. There were several cats…