Ride To Live

February 15, 2023February 15, 2023 Timothy Price49 Comments

Rideku
Powdered white with snow
They live to ride ride to live
Maybe tomorrow

Skunku
Tiny tracks in snow
Skunk lives to run runs to live
Scampers by at dawn

kissku
Valentine’s flowers
Glowing colors to behold
Kisses in the dark

White & Chocolate

June 25, 2022 Timothy Price69 Comments

Morning Sky

Reyes in the Snow

January 9, 2021January 10, 2021 Timothy Price44 Comments

Gwendolyn: “You woke me up to tell me about some dumb celebration in the cold and snow?”

The first year we celebrated Reyes in Madrid, Spain it snowed. Not common for Madrid, and apparently Madrid got a lot of snow today. We stood outside in the cold and snow and watched a parade where the three Reyes Magos rode into town on Camels. Then we ate Spanish Chocolate. We have continued the tradition of eating Spanish Chocolate for Epiphany ever since. Today we celebrated outside in the cold and snow with a space heater, chimenea, fire pit, and a camp stove all burning to keep us warm. Since January 6th was on Wednesday, we waited until tonight, January 9th, to celebrate. However, instead of having our normal party with friends and neighbors coming to join in, we had family only. This was the first Reyes in the last 20 years that we didn’t invite everyone to partake in Spanish Chocolate.

The fires.

Silver napping.

Enjoying the heat when the temperature was 35ºF outside.

Spunk napping.

The end of the party before I turned the torches and lantern out.

Glenda: “You are dumb enough to be outside in the cold. I’m staying in my cozy cubby.”

Do you have one in pink?

March 18, 2019 Timothy Price9 Comments

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At the Southwest Chocolate & Coffee Fest

Like Chocolate like Coffee

March 16, 2019March 17, 2019 Timothy Price10 Comments

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We went to the Southwest Chocolate & Coffee Fest this afternoon. It was very crowded, very noisy, but interesting to see the coffee roasters and chocolatiers in New Mexico together. There were a lot of other vendors selling beer, wine, salsas, pastries, jams and jellies, jewelry, hats, T-shirts and various fast foods. There were also painting and baking classes, a barn turned into a playground for children, and a stage with a so so country band that played a set while we were walking around. There was a “Ted Talk” like presentation on indigenous use of cocoa and honey going on while we were there, also. I have only included photos of a few of the coffee roasters and chocolatiers.

DSCF2884 — VM had a excellent booth. I had some printing done at The Village Print Shop on Friday, and they were printing the T-shirts for VM Coffee.

DSCF2919 — When Theobroma had a little shop downtown, we used to get chocolate there. Theobroma chocolate is super.

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DSCF2910 — ChocGlitz & Cream did have a shiny glitzy look about them.

DSCF2930 — I wanted to get a full shot of the cow skull, but there were too many people crowded around it, and they were in no hurry to move.

DSCF2922 — All kinds of chocolate covered caramel apples.

DSCF2894 — The Art of Chocolate’s chocolates were very fancy and very good looking.

DSCF2923 — New Mexico Piñon Coffee is Laurie’s favorite coffee.

V-Day Dinner

February 15, 2016February 14, 2016 Timothy Price24 Comments

http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2016/2/v-day-dinner

Rainy Days and Reyes

January 7, 2016January 6, 2016 Timothy Price9 Comments

Rain and celebration http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2016/1/rainy-days-and-reyes

Día de los Reyes Magos

January 6, 2016January 5, 2016 Timothy PriceLeave a comment

Celebrating Epiphany http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2016/1/dia-de-los-reyes-magos

Spanish Chocolate

January 7, 2015 Timothy Price28 Comments

DSCF2858 — Laurie used the directions and proportions on the wrapper from a Tres Tazas bar to make her own recipe for what comes out to about 2 gallons of Spanish Chocolate.

We had our annual Spanish Chocolate party to celebrate Reyes (Three Kings / Epiphany) last night.

DSCF2859 — When the chocolate cools, it becomes more like chocolate pudding.

Tristæn cutting the cheese and preparing tapas

One of Tristæn’s arrangements of Spanish cured meats and queso Manchego.

DSCF2865 — When the party was over, the cured meats were gone, most of the chocolate was eaten, and half a plate of queso Manchego was left over.

DSCF2868 — Spunk wondering where all the people went

Epiphany

January 7, 2013January 7, 2013 Timothy Price7 Comments

On the 12th day of Christmas we made Spanish Chocolate, almond biscotti, and Spanish tortillas, put out queso Manchego, got lots of flowers, and then we partied like it was 1699. People brought wine, guacamole, chips, pastries, cheese balls and bread and we had a great celebration of Reyes / Epiphany. We made about 2 gallons of Spanish Chocolate and we ate almost all of it. Now that’s what I call the good life!