My New Hiking Blog!

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I've mentioned here that I have a new passion! HIKING! I've gone hiking every weekend for the past 8 weeks now. I'm officially hooked so I started a hiking blog!  I'll still be blogging here but I hope you come over and visit me at my new blog, Liking Hiking! (click on that to visit).

Show and Tell Friday!

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First off I have to say that this week I feel like a kid!  I'm absolutely giddy over the fact that we may get snow Friday night!  I know many of you are probably sick and tired of snow at this point but we haven't had snow here in 35 years! I'm going to be really disappointed if the weatherman is wrong!

Okay...on to Show and Tell Friday!  This week I'm sharing "BLUE"! haha!  People always tell me they don't know where to start with decorating their home. I say start with a color.  It could be any color!  I started with BLUE!  I love BLUE but you probably already knew that!  

If you are joining in on Show and Tell Friday, please remember that your Show and Tell needs to be something from your home or garden. Please read the Show and Tell Guidelines for step-by-step instructions on how to participate. If you would like to join in, please enter your name and leave your exact Show and Tell blog post link, not just your blog link and as a common courtesy link back to my blog. If your link has been removed, please re-read over the guidelines before re-posting, or e-mail me with any questions.

Thank to all of you that join in every week!

Brrrr it's cold outside!

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It's been really cold here in Northern California this past week! I know some of you will laugh at what we call cold but there have been days where it doesn't get out of the 40s and that is COLD for us! 

There is snow in the hills all around us and it's so pretty!  They say the snow level will get really low, down to 500 ft elevation Friday night/Saturday morning! I'm so hopping we get snow in the valley! It snowed here when I was a baby and then again when I was 15 and that's the only time we've actually had snow on the ground here! It will be exciting if we get it again! A couple weeks ago it was in the mid 70s!!!  I think this has been a bizarre winter for most of us! Right?

Last Sunday I went hiking (my 6th week in a row) and we came upon this stream but no bridge!  Some of the group walked across large mossy rocks to get to the other side, another person walked across a large log but I decided to take my shoes and socks off and walk through the water.  Did I mention there was snow up in this area? The water was so cold but I knew I would be less likely to fall in if I did it my way and luckily I made it across...my feet were numb but after hiking for a few minutes they warmed up again.  Luckily we only had about another 1.5 miles left on our 10 mile hike!  Someone may or may not have fallen in...he asked that I don't blog about that! LOL

I'm so addicted to hiking now! I feel like I'm living for the weekends so I can go again. It feels so good to physically push myself!  Don't worry, I won't be blogging about hiking all the time here...I'm actually thinking of starting another blog just for that so I can keep track of how many miles of hiked and where I've been. I'll let you know, in case you are interested.

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I would like to thank Priya at Once Upon a Tea Time - Design Stories for her post she did on me!

Show and Tell Friday

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It's Show and Tell Friday time again! Last week we had a record number of participants...over 300!! Whoohoo!  Thank you all so much for joining in! 

Can you believe I'm sharing something that is not blue, pink or white today?

This is a new (to me) plate that a coworker gave me!  You may remember she gave me some gorgeous pink dishes a last month! 

This beautiful plate was made in Germany.  I love the green and yellow color combination! So fresh!

If you are joining in on Show and Tell Friday, please remember that your Show and Tell needs to be something from your home or garden. Please read the Show and Tell Guidelines for step-by-step instructions on how to participate. If you would like to join in, please enter your name and leave your exact Show and Tell blog post link, not just your blog link and as a common courtesy link back to my blog. If your link has been removed, please re-read over the guidelines before re-posting, or e-mail me with any questions.


Thank to all of you that join in every week!

More Pumpkin Muffins

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A couple weeks ago I showed you the Brownie Muffins I made just using Devil's Food cake mix with a can of pumpkin.  Jodi left a comment on that post and said she makes the same muffins with Spice Cake mix! I knew I had to try that because Pumpkin Spice Muffins just sounded so good!

Everyone loves these better than the chocolate muffins! I know...unbelievable!

They are so easy to make too!  Just a box of Spice Cake Mix (I used Duncan Hines) and a small can (15 oz) of Solid Pack Pumpkin.  Mix these two things together and DO NOT add water, eggs or oil or anything else! Scoop the very thick batter into 12 paper-lined muffin cups (I used a ice cream scoop and it worked great)!   Bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes! 

The best part...they are only 181 calories each!!

Still Feeling Pink!

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So...yesterday for Valentine's Day, almost every woman at work came in with a red sweater or blouse and black pants!  I either never really noticed that the majority of women do this or maybe this is a new trend. This will never work for me....I don't own ANYTHING red!  Pink I love, red not so much!  

I could be wrong but it seems like you are either a PINK person or a RED person...am I wrong? Is it not that black and white? ha! 

I love pink! LOVE IT!! You probably already figured that out though...

I don't even decorate for Christmas with RED so it's not surprising that when I think of Valentine's Day I think of PINK, not RED!  I don't even like RED roses, I prefer pink ones!

I think the only thing that's been in my home that is red were these RED Velvet Cupcakes I made awhile back.  I actually think they would look more appetizing if they were pink though...

Are you a red person, or a pink person...or maybe both or neither? I'm just curious...

Happy Valentine's Day!

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Happy Valentine's Day!!! I hope you all have a wonderful day filled with romance and love!

Me?  I'm saying "next"!   All is well though! :)

Show and Tell Friday!

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 Welcome to Show and Tell Friday! This week I'm sharing a business card holder I bought at Vintage and Vogue in downtown Campbell, California.  Isn't it pretty? I just love it!

 

 I bought it to hold my blog business cards. Does anyone else have cards for their blog? I found so many times when I was out and about I would talk about my blog and someone would ask for the web address. It's so much easier to pull out a card than write it all out! It also looks more professional!

I ordered these cards online at Moo.com  Their business cards are double sided and amazing but for some reason this time they came out a little pink which makes the blue background look lavender. Oh well, I guess I can live with that!

I have my boring business cards for my 9-5 job behind the pretty blog business cards! haha!

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This is my second post today so scroll down if you haven't seen that one. It's my newest passion!

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If you are joining in on Show and Tell Friday, please remember that your Show and Tell needs to be something from your home or garden. Please read the Show and Tell Guidelines for step-by-step instructions on how to participate. If you would like to join in, please enter your name and leave your exact Show and Tell blog post link, not just your blog link and as a common courtesy link back to my blog. If your link has been removed, please re-read over the guidelines before re-posting, or e-mail me with any questions.

Thank to all of you that join in every week!

Hiking around Northern California

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I have a new passion! It's hiking!  I joined a hiking group about a month ago through www.meetup.com.  Through that first hike I met John and Miriam who have their own hiking group and they invited me to join them on one of their hikes. I've been hiking with them for the past 3 weeks now and loving it!!!

We hike at different locations in the San Francisco Bay Area.  There are so many hiking trails in Northern California that I never even knew about!  All these photos were taken last Saturday at Monte Bello Midpeninsula Regional Open Space Preserve. We hiked about 10-11 miles. The weather was perfect, it got up to the mid 70s that day!

At one point in the hike we had to cross a stream by stepping across the stones. It was harder than it looked but I made it. I was the holding the camera so no photos of me!

 

This is the only thing that scares me about hiking around here...

 We had a picnic lunch at the top of this hill.

I hope you enjoyed seeing a little bit of Northern California!