Month: September 2012
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Rodriguez Fajitas!
There’s nothing all that special about these that make them “Rodriguez fajitas” except that the peppers come from our lovely (now potted) bell pepper plants! Javi and I needed a new way to fix up our chicken – the whole baked chicken thing was great for the first 3 months after we discovered our favorite…
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Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very bad (just kidding it was awesome) Weekend
What a weekend! Going into it Javi and I didn’t have a ton of stuff planned but boy are we good at filling up our time. On Friday evening Javi and I experimented with making sweet potato chips. Everyone has since told me that it’s really not hard to make anything “chips” but I had…
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Remember Insanity? Yeah, we do too.
Today’s weather is beyond perfect and that’s great for me because I’m shooting a wedding this afternoon and it’s an outdoor wedding! It’s a risk to plan an outdoor wedding in Nashville, especially in the fall when you plan on cooler weather but the heat index remains in the 90s. But today…today I’m happily drinking…
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Viva Chile! Tiki tiki ti!!!
September 18th is a huge date for our family! So happy (belated) September 18th everyone! El 18 de Septiembre es una gran fecha para nuestra familia! Asi que, feliz 18 de Septiembre (atrasado) para todos! Now you are thinking…why is it a big date? It’s Tuesday, it was raining (in Nashville), summer is over, what…
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See you next year garden!
Fall is almost here and the weather and pests have conspired against my garden. In the last update we told you about our attempt to rescue all our pepper plants and the harvest of the sweet potatoes. We discovered that squash bugs were the reason why our plants died, but luckily we got the peppers…
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2012 TN State Fair!
The recent “drop” in temperature (I think we may permanently be out of the 90s!) and crisper morning air all signal the arrival of my favorite season of the year – fall!! To me, fall is 100x better than spring because I’m spared the horrific pollen allergies (though there’s still the dreaded ragweed) and the temperature…
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Aunt Melissa’s Art
Growing up with Melissa as an aunt was a blast for me and my cousin Heather. Melissa loved to play dress up with us and let us raid her collection of awesome vintage outfits (of course to us at the time “vintage” wasn’t even on our radar; we just wanted to look like princesses, obviously).…
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Quick trip to Soddy Daisy, TN
Even though we’re technically back to the regular routine of work, class, homework and everything else that regularly occupies our time, Javier and I had to resist the return to the grind and ease our way through the transition from summer to fall. On Saturday of Labor Day weekend we decided to make a 2-day…
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Instagram Summer
Alright alright – time to finally concede to the heaping pile of fall semester homework and say farewell to the dwindling bliss of summer living. I know I know, I complain (excessively) about summer heat, bugs, sweat etc. – but those are all weather concerns. For the most part, summer treated us really, really well…
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Garden Update: Sweet Potato Treasure …. Arrrr!!!
The summer gardening season is almost over at Los Rodriguez farm (we wish we had a farm…but oh well!). We had fun working in the garden, seeing things pop up, eating fresh veggies, chopping herbs, fighting mildew and uninvited “guests”. We refused to use pesticides or anything that could add toxins to our plants, so…
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We were freshly pressed a few days ago, and before that we always wondered….what do we have to do to get freshly pressed?? Well, the WordPress folks are sharing their secrets and wrote a great post about our Visiting South Park City post. We are so flattered by the great description of our post and…
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