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RedPlum is the face-name of a company called Valassis, they are responsible for those grocery store circulars that you do not read and what keeps those businesses from advertising in newspapers with content. To get your address off their list you have three choices: by mail online or by calling 1-888-241-6760 of course they want you to call, perhaps they sell the phone number when the… Continue

This weekend my husband and I will be heading up to El Rancho de Las Golondrinas "The Ranch of the Swallows" for the Santa Fe Wine Festival this is our favorite wine festival I think it must be the posh location, because there is a decided lack of people seeing how drunk they can get on their entrance fee. In fact… Continue

I am not going to turn out to be one of those food cultist that thinks gluten is evil, everything in moderation (I did not get on the Adkins circus wagon either) no, I just want to find some nice squishy-fluffy bread. I was raised at sea level and the only thing I have not learned to live without quite happily is bread that has a delicate crumb and find texture . . . ahh baked goods, staff of life. I can't seem to make anything but a 'hearty' loaf up here. Someplace in our fair city there must b… Continue

Finally it is time to go out in the sunshine and buy local produce! Los Ranchos Growers' Market has begun I believe, as well as the Corrales Growers' Market, and the Nob Hill Growers' Market(a mere four blocks from my house), is less than two weeks away. I do hope this year sees hugh growth (not punning) in attendance both of growers and shoppers, burque is more than worthy of a farmers market 'scene' to rival other small cities.… Continue

One of my favorite 'save the environment' ideas is buying and trading for used items rather than buying new, as a hardened anachronism I like old things, things that have been proven by time to be useful. We bought an older home a years ago, and it has prompted me into buying things with a previous life even more so than in the past. Now, I am happy to say we have a vacuum to clean our old home that 'fits'. I have no idea how old the upright Kirby vacuum cleaner I have is, we inherited it from… Continue