Author: Patty

Pandemic or not, my lemon and lime fruit trees continue to bear fruit, lots of fruit. And since we are in a “stay home” mode, I cannot just take all… [Continue Reading]

Crisis Can Mean Opportunity The one thing to remember about crisis events, while they can be terrible and devastating to many; they can also bring about inventions, innovations, and revolutions…. [Continue Reading]

Hunter + Gatherer’s Honey I watched a TV special series on The History of Food, offered on the Curiosity Channel, that featured the Hadzabe. This is an indigenous ethnic group,… [Continue Reading]

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana Human Experiences In many ways, my personal experience of this Pandemic is bifurcated. I am over-stressed from work and… [Continue Reading]

Pandemic Update In the time of a pandemic, canned and boxed foods are often gone from the shelves due to panic buying. But they are not the only food to… [Continue Reading]

I am focusing this post on how to clean and disinfect your kitchen, and some ideas for unprepared people and what they can do. I will also provide some DIY… [Continue Reading]

Beer Connoisseurs PBS has a small video series called the Origin of Everything, that does in depth explanations of interesting topics. I ran across this series by accident last week,… [Continue Reading]

My Day Job At my University job, one of my tasks is to evaluate risks and plan for events that can shut down our services. The reason why this is… [Continue Reading]

Taking Turns My spouse and I take turns planning Valentine’s day. The day after I made a little comment about how I planned it last year (hint-hint), I had a… [Continue Reading]

Arkansas’ little Italy I was approached by a company to try a boxed pasta made in Arkansas, and write about it. After reading a review of the companies (the marketer… [Continue Reading]

This is a story of how to make the perfect “dump” casserole using just what you have. Of course this dish was made by Chef Gabby of KOF so this… [Continue Reading]

Our cruise visited three islands, one owned and operated by Royal Caribbean called CoCoCay, and two others: St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, and St Martin. Long a cruise… [Continue Reading]

The Video Experience (2019) Netflix has a series called Mega Foods and episode 6 features the “World’s Biggest Cruise Ship” detail on how they manage to serve so many people… [Continue Reading]