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A nice surprise finding so many tomatoes on the vine when we got back from California. Now that was a crop for the record books. Not long ago, it was hard to grow large tomato varieties in Seattle without a greenhouse. Our summers were too cool and cloudy. What's next? Watermelons?

 

So I was poking around down in my basement pantry yesterday, still stocked up from pandemic shopping sprees, and found everything to make dark chocolate pecan date turtles. Oh happy day.

The best low-guilt treat, especially with those luscious soft jumbo dates we bought at the Windmill Market.  I found that recipe in a magazine a couple of years ago and I'm sure I've blogged about it before. Old people tend to repeat themselves. The healthy dates take the place of caramel. 

Well, good little soldiers, we lined up to get our third Covid shots yesterday at Walgreens. My arm is almost as sore as it was after the pneumonia shot. Other than that I'm just tired, and hopefully that's the end of it.  Not something I look forward to doing every six months.