This post is dedicated to Pat, who has been a second Mom to our dogs for 15 years! She was a tremendous help for us during the past month.
Yesterday, we finally brought the pups with us to their new home!
Four hours and thirty five minutes later…. that’s how excited we all were!
GOOD NIGHT, FOLKS… We are pooped!
Three years ago I had my first 4th of July celebration as a naturalized American…
This photo was taken right after the ceremony by our dear friend and neighbor Marijo, who sat through the whole thing just to be able to hug me for the first time as an American citizen!
HAPPY 4th to all my American readers! Enjoy the fireworks!
Adele!
I will be in touch with you by email so that I can send you “The Brazilian Kitchen” as a token of my appreciation for your support to the Bewitching Kitchen.
To everyone else who commented, thanks for playing… 😉
Remember that New Year Resolution I broke a while ago? No more cookbooks in 2012? Well, I should try and keep that going for many, many years…
Two boxes hold exclusively bread books. Everything else required “only” 8 boxes.
A little update on the moving situation: The company we are working with has been a huge disappointment. They gave us a window of three days for the move to happen, with the assurance of a confirmation of the exact day and approximate time 48 hours in advance. That never happened, and when the final day (yesterday) came and went, they told us the sub-contractors “forgot” to schedule us. We shouldn’t worry, though, they arranged for another sub-contractor to do the job right away.
So, we basically packed the whole house ourselves, and now sit here, hoping the alternative company will indeed park their truck here at 11am and get this adventure going.
Moving brings deep philosophical thoughts to mind. Yesterday I sat outside for a while, staring at the sky, and wondering how a civilization that landed the man on the moon, that built spacecrafts like the Voyager-1, still boldly going where no one has gone before, failed so miserably at the design of the packing tape dispenser.
UPDATE OF SOAP OPERA: We won’t be moving today. Maybe tomorrow, but not even that is sure yet. Sometimes, the only path to take is the one of least resistance.
It’s hard to believe it’s been 3 years since I wrote my first post, unsure of where it would take me. Since then, I’ve published 447 articles, and went from having a couple hundred page views per month to over 20 thousand!
If my life was a smooth, uneventful ride, I would bake a cake for the occasion. A cake chosen from the several options suggested last year in the comments, fingers crossed that it would be as gorgeous as this baby:
Instead of uneventful, our life seems to follow the script of North by Northwest. 😉 All kitchen stuff is now divided between two homes, we are surrounded by boxes, and constrained by deadlines. No cake this year, I’m afraid. Instead, I celebrate by bringing you the first giveaway in the Bewitching Kitchen!
Leave a comment on this post from now until the end of June, and on July 1st I will draw the name of the lucky winner. The prize?
A copy of “The Brazilian Kitchen“, a book I recently fell in love with and wrote a post about. Everyone is welcome, from all over the planet, as long as the mail service can reach you! 😉
To all my readers, subscribers, followers, friends (in real life and those special friendships formed through the blogosphere) thank you for your support! And a special thank you to Fer, from Chucrute com Salsicha, who (maybe without ever being aware of it), was my main source of inspiration to become a food blogger.
I close this post sharing two photos from our new home: the view from our kitchen window, and a spot at the corner of our backyard. Just a teaser, we are not moved in yet, but sort of camped there for a couple of days last week. The two of us, a bed, a kitchen table. and the amazing performance of fireflies outside the window during the night…
ONE YEAR AGO: The Bewitching Kitchen turns two!
TWO YEARS AGO: Bewitching Birthday!
THREE YEARS AGO: Welcome to my blog!
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