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What can I do to Mary and NOT get caught? She is like a Mommy; she knows and sees everything!<\/p><\/div>\n

So, it’s Tuesday, and we are off to the gym for our morning bone-crushing exercise.\u00a0 I checked my BP, and I was 120\/80, just like I used to be, and I felt marvelous.\u00a0 We went through our exercises, making sounds like Rice Krispies for an entire hour.\u00a0 I am more prominent, so my noises are louder. Three people walking by the gym started running, thinking it was an earthquake and the building had collapsed; it was only my skeleton!<\/p>\n

We left the gym just in time to go to Home Depot and help some flowers escape their situation.\u00a0 The flowers went into the trunk, and we went to the burger joint. Yes, In-n-Out was our destination!\u00a0 A cheeseburger later, we were back to normal.\u00a0 It was just enough grease to coat our joints so we did not make funny noises when we walked.<\/p>\n

From there, we went home and began working.<\/p>\n

April is remarkable since we are getting more sun, and the veggies react accordingly!<\/p>\n

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The garden will start growing rapidly now.<\/p><\/div>\n

Mary worked inside while I kept busy outside.\u00a0 Mary prepared meals and the house for our guests from Starlighter’s tomorrow.\u00a0 She also comes out and assists me when I need help!<\/p>\n

I put new solid tires on the two-wheeled carts, put new batteries on all the outside clocks (3), dug up two big potted plants and replaced them with new plants we got this morning, planted “Mother-In-Law Tongue” along the east side of the house, and performed several minor activities.<\/p>\n

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These are excellent plants!<\/p><\/div>\n

By 5:00 pm, it was getting cold again, so I came inside and prepared some homemade salsa using our new molcajete.<\/p>\n

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Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican cultures stretching back several thousand years, including the Aztecs and Maya, used the molcajete. Traditionally carved out of a single block of vesicular basalt, molcajetes are typically round and supported by three short legs. They are frequently decorated with the carved head of an animal on the outside edge of the bowl, giving the molcajete the appearance of a short, stout, three-legged animal. The pig is the most common animal head used to decorate this type.<\/p>\n

In the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican period, the molcajete had a lid, and the set was believed to be used for the burial of members of high-status societies (I wondered why Mary wanted a big one!).<\/p>\n

Additionally, throughout the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican period, they were decorated with various colors and designs, and orange wares were identified as the most common characteristic of the molcajete. The matching hand-held grinding tool, a tejolote (Mexican Spanish, from Nahuatl texolotl), is made of the same basalt material.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"\"To make the salsa, I chopped the ingredients and placed them on a baking sheet in the oven at 350 degrees for twenty minutes.\u00a0 This brings out the moisture and flavor.<\/p>\n

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Salsa in the making. We have tomatoes, garlic, tomatillos, onions, and eventually cilantro.<\/p><\/div>\n

MAry was busy making magic while I fiddled with the salsa.<\/p>\n

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Mary makes a special chicken from a Facebook recipe.<\/p><\/div>\n

Thank you, Facebook!<\/p>\n