It seems that since my dear mother’s passing, my days are even more full of work for her, than when I was caring for her.\u00a0\u00a0 Every weekend we pack up and drive to my old childhood home and begin the task of cleaning out and throwing out.\u00a0\u00a0 Tears of sadness…tears of remembrance are all over the 50 plus years of accumulation my parents collected.\u00a0\u00a0 My parents came from the Depression Era parents, so nothing was ever thrown out or wasted.\u00a0\u00a0 This has all been so tiring, and draining to go through this alone as an only child.\u00a0 Meth-head copper theft break-in didn’t help in the middle of our packing either.\u00a0 So violating.\u00a0 They destroyed the place for $100 of copper.\u00a0 Shameful.\u00a0\u00a0 There will be a judgement some day.\u00a0 If any blessing was to be found in that destruction and setback, it was that we were able to go through things twice and let go of more.<\/p>\n
Up early today!\u00a0\u00a0 We have lots to do!\u00a0 If any of you are pepper or chili aficionados then you might be a bit envious. \u00a0 We are in West Texas, and every year we get to enjoy the Hatch Chili Roast at stores here in Amarillo.\u00a0 Yesterday I took my girls and we watched and with delight, and took in the delicious perfume and the sights and sounds of the annual chili roasting.\u00a0 This is really a sensory experience!\u00a0 I took some photos which I will post up a bit later. \u00a0 We don\u2019t have a big festival here.\u00a0\u00a0 Just a giant roaster, outside our market, and a lot of good fun meeting new folks and talking up chili. We bought hot chilies, as opposed to sweet, as a good girl born in New Mexico should.\u00a0 There are no other peppers in\u00a0\u00a0 the world like these.\u00a0 Our family would not be able to live without our chilies.\u00a0\u00a0 They have always been a part of my families New Mexico heritage.<\/p>\n
Today we are packing roasted New Mexico Hatch Chilies for the freezer.\u00a0 My house smelled really nice with that yesterday!<\/p>\n
Next we have ORDERS ORDERS ORDERS!!\u00a0 Our little home studio business, Kaleidoscents<\/a>, takes off in the Fall and Winter\u00a0 We have some local orders, some that will be shipped and a huge Wedding order for Bug Off!\u00a0 The wedding order is for a bride in Houston that is having an outdoor reception.\u00a0\u00a0 She will have bottles of the Bug-Off!<\/a> blend on the tables for her guests, so they don\u2019t go running away with mosquitoes ruin her wedding.\u00a0 West Nile Virus has dug it\u2019s heels in Texas this year.\u00a0\u00a0 We are very concerned because our Winters have been so mild.\u00a0 This affects our pets too.\u00a0\u00a0 Please take a look at our Bug-Off!<\/a> blend.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ve taken it to Africa with me and tested it on the most difficult mosquito biting field in the world.\u00a0 No bites!<\/p>\n The time is 4:33 am and it is time for me to get the wax heated, the chilies separated and the coffee brewing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It seems that since my dear mother’s passing, my days are even more full of work for her, than when I was caring for her. Every weekend we pack up and drive to my old childhood home and begin the task of cleaning out and throwing out. Tears of sadness…tears of remembrance are all over the 50 plus years of accumulation my parents collected. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[523,524,520,519,521,525,522],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-bug-repellent","tag-busy-weekend","tag-hatch-chili","tag-hatch-chilies","tag-kaleidoscents","tag-reminiscing","tag-west-nile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}