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  • Roasted Green Tomatoes Salsa

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    Karen’s garden 4th Ave grew tomatillos for a couple of years in the garden beds They were laying in her yard between the driftwood we collected from the beach that held space between the grass in her yard for food to grow.

    We made green salsas in a way to make use of hundreds of little green baby tomatoes left at the end of the season.

    ingredients

    3-5lb green tomatoes cut into chunks

    2 medium yellow onion

    2 medium jalapeno Peppers cut in half lengthwise seeded

    4 red or orange bell pepper seeds removed

    6 cloves garlic

    1/2 cup of olive oil

    3/4 cup fresh cilantro

    1 cup lime juice

    two tablespoons kosher salt John black pepper

    1/2 Cut vinegar

    dried oregano or fresh two teaspoons of pepper

    1/4 tsp cayenne pepper

    2 teaspoons Sugar

    2 teaspoons cumin

    Directions

    Step 1

    Preheat oven to 375 degrees F line baking sheets with parchment

    Step 2

    place green tomatoes onion jalapeno Peppers bell pepper and garlic on the baking sheet
    bake in the oven until tomatoes and vegetables start to blacken About 15 minutes to move from the oven and let cool for at least 10 minutes

    Step 3
    transfer roasted vegetables to a blender or food processor Add cilantro lime juice kosher salt cumin and black pepper process until well blended chill in the refrigerator until serving.

  • Jordan-Wadi Rum

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    Crossing the Red Sea

    I then bought a ferry ticket into Jordan to Aqaba. I stayed one night in Aqaba and then headed to Wadi Rum in the desert.

    I spent a night with the Bedouin out under the stars, where we camped with a fire next to the rocks, the Jabel cliffs rising sheer from the desert floor.

  • Hawaii 50

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    We just spent the last week of June in Hawaii for my sister’s 50th birthday. It was a great family re-union. it was a great chance for our family to get together and for the cousins to hang out. We went surfing great tuna poke and sunsets on the North Shore.

    family

    We also visited the Polynesian Cultural Centre and the War Museum, cruised through a couple of missiles and went swimming with the turtles.

    We visited the Pearl Harbor War Museum while staying in Hawaii the museum is a spectacular tribute to dear American war machine and showed us various types of weaponry including battleships jet fighter planes helicopters and submarines.

    We visited the USS Arizona which was a spectacular battleship with enormous guns on the deck and impressive construction. There were some very good exhibits describing some of the battles that were held in the Pacific against Japanese bombers and the Japanese Navy

    The fighter jets were also very impressive and it was interesting to see the evolution of military aviation over the course of several decades with examples of different types of fighter jets and helicopters that we could look at up Close. and touch.

  • 2.5 Million stem cells

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    Its another trip to Houston to pickup a boost. These are my own cells that were harvested last year and then cloned at Hope Bio labs in Houston TX.

    These cells can then replicate and repair muscles, skin, organs or hopefully in this case nerve cells and motor neurons.

    Hope Bio comes through again. I’m getting 2.5 million stem cells injected into my spine and bloodstream.

    At this point I am willing to take all the help I can get. I am starting to lose mobility in my hands and arms now making it difficult to even type this.

    Leica Picture – Stem Cells
    Davin – IV in hand
  • Queen Zenobia

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    Queen Zenobia was the supreme ruler of Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean successfully defeating the Roman Empire in 240 AD and conquering Egypt freeing it from Rome.

    The city of Palmyria Was the capital city for Queen Zenoba’s empire.

    This is the ruins of her palace and Temple.

    In 270, Zenobia launched an invasion that brought most of the Roman East under her sway and culminated with the annexation of Egypt. By mid-271 her realm extended from Ancyra, central Anatolia, to Upper Egypt

    Septimia Zenobia (Palmyrene Aramaic: 𐡡𐡶𐡦𐡡𐡩‎, Bat-Zabbai; c. 240 – c. 274) was a third-century queen of the Palmyrene Empire in Syria. Many legends surround her ancestry;

  • Syria-The Desert Oasis of Palmyra

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    Zenobia Queen of the dessert

    In 270, Zenobia launched an invasion that brought most of the Roman East under her sway and culminated with the annexation of Egypt. By mid-271 her realm extended from Ancyra, central Anatolia, to Upper Egypt


    We take the take a driver with a van to take us from Damascus out to the desert and the next day we hike up to the top of a mountain where there’s an old ruined castle.

    This ruined castle on top of this small mountain looks over the oasis and it’s a fortress made out of stone and you can look through the slits of the fortress, and I was watching the sunset setting over the desert when I realized this was the place the Volney had sat when he wrote the manuscript .

    The Queen Zenobia Zenobia was a cultured monarch and fostered an intellectual environment in her court, which was open to scholars and philosophers. She was tolerant toward her subjects and protected religious minorities.