"California Sunshine Soup"

Here is a great  cold soup for Memorial Day. Easy to make, delicious, nutritious and health conscious.

Here are the ingredients:

I've attached a photo of the ingredients for the California Sunshine Soup. They are as follows:

1 quart Clamato Juice

1/2 cup chopped cucumber

1/4 pound shrimp

1 avocado

2 teaspoons each of olive oil and red wine vinegar

1 large clove of garlic, minced

1/2 teaspoon Tabasco

1 small lime diced

Sonoran Desert Beauty!

Springtime Cleaning!

In the recent week or so, our temperatures have gradually climbed here in Tucson. Summer is officially here as afternoon temperatures have been reaching 100 degrees. Luckily, the early mornings are still comfortable enough to work outside and do some final cleaning and organization for June 4th, which is our semi-annual "Brush and Bulky" Day. So as you can see, one garage is clean , but my RV garage still needs some work, which is "RV" in name only. Besides house cleanup, I'll also be doing quite a bit of pruning and clearing of dead branches and cacti for the June 4th Pickup. Being on three acres, there is always a great deal of brush to clear.

Africanization of Bees in Arizona

Just this past week, I came across Africanized bees swarming in a local shopping area. In Arizona, these colonies have grown and have become more aggressive and more numerous in recent years. These bees were originally imported from Africa into Brazil in an effort to improve beekeeping in the New World tropics. These African bees were well suited to conditions in Brazil,and they began colonizing South America, and thus hybridizing with European honey bees (hence the name "Africanized" honey bees). Since then the bees have spread northward at a rate of 186 to 310 miles per year, and today every country in South and Central America has established populations of Africanized honey bees as well as Southern states like Arizona.