New things are nice

Consign & Design had a sale on Thursday, and we decided to go down and see if we could get a deal on a table we'd had our eye on for months. We did, got it for about 1/3 off. It's perfect for our hallway, and Carl can pack his books on it. There are some items at Target in dark wood that will finish it off nicely, and allow Carl to put all his packing materials out there in tidy drawers and shelving.


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Carl potted the bougainvillea, it looks great. Here's the way the entrance to the guest room looked before:


And after:




Our palm tree has really grown since we bought the place in March. Then it was barely over our wall, now it's higher than our roof.





We're having half of those big shrimp today(I know, they should be called prawns or something, but they don't differentiate down here, everything is just shrimp). I needed coconut milk for my recipe.
http://www.recipezaar.com/Coconut-Masala-Tiger-Prawns-90430 (Note next day- the recipe was DELICIOUS!)

I didn't find coconut milk, and although I could make it, I would have to find cheesecloth for that, a more difficult thing than you might think. So I grabbed some coconut cream. It has sugar in it, but I'm just going to use a couple of tablespoons, so I'm sure the added sweetness will be delicious. But what to do with the rest of that can of coconut cream?

Make piña coladas, of course!!



Just like any woman, sometimes I buy things just because they're pretty:



It's such a nice red color, I couldn't resist. Now what do I do with it? Well, I found a recipe for a beef chili that I think is what this is meant for:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chile-Colorado/Detail.aspx

We'll try that next week. Today we have a big yard sale out in Las Conchas. (I know Dan the map guy doesn't need a map anymore, since he knows the town as well as I do, so I won't add a map). I hope it's better than the last one we went to. But it has promise, as it's a community yard sale. And of course there are refreshments. I was telling my mom, every event of any kind here involves alcohol. Sometimes you just have to stay away! Or say no, which just gets you strange looks.

Anyway, I need to go get ready for that. Here's one last picture. This is what it's supposed to look like here in March, Spring Break: