While I continue to work toward a deadline with a story that is giving me fits, life goes on. My husband still wants to be fed, so I've been doing my best to keep things simple and/or use the CrockPot as often as possible. Fortunately, we've had a couple of cool fronts pass through which have actually put soup back on the menu.
I love soup. It's so versatile and the added benefit of the CrockPot is very high on my list right now. Last week, I make some of my favorite Southwest Chicken Soup.
While I've been living in my office, hubby has been out having some fun around the ranch. He's always been a huge history buff and has often told me about the Karankawa Indians that once inhabited our area. When his father was a boy, he would go out and walk the fields after a rain storm or when the farmers tilled to search for arrowheads. This is a small part of his collection.
Award-winning author Mindy Obenhaus is passionate about touching readers with Biblical truths in an entertaining, and sometimes adventurous, manner. She lives on a ranch in Texas with her husband, two sassy pups, countless cattle, deer and the occasional coyote, mountain lion or snake. When she's not writing, she enjoys spending time with her grandchildren, cooking and watching copious amounts of the Hallmark Channel. Learn more at mindyobenhaus.com
How fascinating, Mindy! I love history! There's a place in lower Manhattan where they have excavated the foundations of a Revolutionary War era tavern and have left it exposed (covered with some sort of plexiglass type shield), so you can actually look down at what was once on the ground under you.
ReplyDeleteYour soup is inspired. I have chicken, corn and black beans and was thinking of putting them together in a soup. You've saved me the effort of figuring it out (although there goes the idea for a blog post. LOL)
Mary Cate, it's not often you can say that I inspire you, so I'll take it. Sorry about the blog post, though.
DeleteThat's cool about the tavern. Just goes to show that we never know what might be just beneath our feet.
Wow, how cool to have that kind of history on your doorstep! And I like it when you have deadlines because that means there's be a book for me to read in the future. I'm reading A Father's Promise right now. :-)
ReplyDeleteOkay, Kav, I may have just squealed. I hope you enjoy the story! :D
DeleteI love the image of this history... and cannot imagine living in a society that used rock tips for weaponry and had no wheel...
ReplyDeleteThink about how differently things advanced in Europe and Asia vs. North and South America?
I look at that, and always wonder what was it that inspired the Greeks to be thinkers and scholars? Was living in proximity a huge part of why their culture changed regularly and significantly?
The Western hemisphere had such a distance to overcome, and warring tribes.... a very different life and outcome.
This is fascinating, Mindy.
I find it interesting, too, Ruthy. It's hard to fathom what life must have been like back then.
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