Category: Food

Photos From This Past Weekend

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Holding on in “the times of trouble.”

Sunrise or Sunset? Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt (This is actually from Wednesday, February 26, 2025, but I just had to share it).
My best friend Mook and I, many years ago. I think this may have been in 2006 or 2007. She shared this with me on Saturday, March 01, 2025.
Saturday morning workout. Saturday, March 01, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Sunday morning workout. I’m so weird. I have on like 3 layers in this photo. LOL! It was cold outside, and I had just returned from walking Jernee. Sunday, March 02, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Buidling Basement Gems. Sunday, March 02, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Salmon, spinach, onions, and cheesy grits. This is from Thursday night. I know it’s not the weekend, but I felt like sharing it anyway. February 27, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
My favorite girl. Jernee had a seizure on Sunday morning. This is her resting after I gave her a haircut and a bath. Sunday, March 02, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt

“When it rains, it pours.” On Sunday, March 02, 2025, Jernee Timid had a seizure. It was a light episode, lasting about two minutes, and it was the first time she had one. I’ve been mentally preparing for Jernee’s transition for a few years now. The Little Monster is a fighter and seems to fight her way out of every traumatic event that has occurred to her. But this . . . this, I will not tolerate. I will not have her form a life of convulsions and episodic seizures. I just WILL NOT.

She has an appointment next Thursday with her vet for lab work and an overall checkup. They may do some other tests as well while we’re there. However, if she has another seizure, I am to call them and bring her in straight away or go to our Emergency Vet’s office. If the little one makes it to April 06, 2025, she will be 17 years old. But I have to be honest, folks . . . this really took a lot out of her, and I won’t be mad at her one bit if she doesn’t see her seventeenth birthday. I don’t want her suffering, and I will see to it that she does not.

Here’s hoping all of you had a great weekend and that you’ll have a wondrous week ahead as well.

Peace and blessings.

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Photos From This Past Weekend

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I am finding peace in unexpected places.

Honeycrisp apples, canned with ginger, cinnamon, honey, water, brown sugar, and apple cider vinegar. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Homemade oatmeal made with the canned apples shown above. Saturday, February 22, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
My youngest nephew, Thyrie, is currently hospitalized for a sickle cell crisis. He’s been there since Wednesday night. If you have it in you, please say a prayer for my little fighter. Photo Credit: Thyrie’s mom, sent to me by my brother, TJ.
Saturday morning workout. February 22, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Sunday morning workout. Sunday, February 23, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Stare-off. I didn’t win. Sunday, February 23, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Sunday morning coffee. This is one of my favorite creamers to use. It’s dairy-free and has zero sugar as well. February 23, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Zumi’s breakfast time: freeze-dried shrimp & cucumber. Sunday, February 23, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Sunday dinner: pan-seared lamb, chickpeas, & veggies (onions, bell peppers, 1/2 serrano pepper, spinach, & fresh chopped garlic). February 23, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt

I have had such a relaxing weekend, yet one fraught with concern. I have been in total prayer mode for my nephew. My brother has been keeping me updated. He and my oldest niece have sickle cell anemia. My brother and I have the trait, however, we are not carriers.

I’ve always been mindful of who I dated, when I was actively dating, knowing that I’m 1/2 of a detrimental factor for offspring. My brother, not so much. But . . . he knows and understands what’s at stake now.

Thyrie is such a little man. He’s a ball of joy and curiosity. I have been asking God to keep him around for a very long time. Maybe he’ll answer that prayer for me.

I hope you all have a great week ahead. Count your many blessings and build on them by blessing others.

Have you gotten your copy of my new book: a collection of serial tales & flash fiction, Séduire (E-Book and Paperback) yet?

2025 Still Has Beauty To Behold

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Visual Artists, Writers, Collectors, and Creatives, here’s a chance for you to become a part of something magnificently gargantuan.

I hope to see your work in Portraits, the upcoming digital magazine, launching in March.

Portraits on Tiffany is a blog full of artistic goodness, “funkdafied” music, and reminiscent reflections. I am happy a digital magazine is being produced by such a worthy artist. If you haven’t visited her website yet, I invite you to do so soon.

A Beautiful Start to 2025

Photos From This Past Weekend

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Friday night shenanigans. Photo #1. Credit: Friday, February 14, 2025. Tremaine L. Loadholt
Friday night shenanigans. Photo #2. Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Eel avocado roll and Shrimp Tempura roll. Saturday night’s dinner. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Such lovely smiles. Just look at all this joy! Saturday, February 15, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
My little Munchkin Man holding up his 2024-2025 basketball trophy. Saturday, February 15, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Caison accepting his trophy and a few words of encouragement and congratulations from his coach. Saturday, February 15, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Saturday morning workout photo. Progress is a beautiful thing. February 15, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Sunday morning workout photo. The grind is on my mind. February 16, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Isn’t this the sweetest face?! That’s my Jernee Timid . . . my favorite girl. Sunday, February 16, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Sunday dinner: Oven-baked cabbage. Sunday, February 16, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Sunday dinner: BBQ Pork belly. I don’t typically eat pork. However, I had a craving for it, so I have learned not to deny myself what I want, but to eat it in moderation when I have a certain craving. Sunday, February 16, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Sunday dinner: The complete meal. Sunday, February 16, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt

The weekend always passes by so quickly. It’s as though it is trying to leave before we can tell it how much we love and need it. I think if I start giving it a bit more money to coax it to be my forever partner, it’ll probably stay put. I doubt it, though. It’s like a rolling stone–so many hats, so many homes outside of mine.

Have a fantastic week ahead, beautiful people! Peace and blessings!

Haven’t you gotten your copy of my new book: a collection of serial tales & flash fiction, Séduire (E-Book and Paperback) yet?

canning

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Homemade pickles: sliced cucumbers, minced fresh garlic cloves, onions, serrano peppers, Everglades seasoning, Ethiopian spice blend, & Tabitha Brown’s Sunshine seasoning, apple cider vinegar, white vinegar, & water.

to ward off
heartache, I can
because I can.

Organic whole garlic cloves & organic raw honey.

Valentine’s Day isn’t a favorite holiday of mine. Love should be shared and expressed every day. There doesn’t need to be a special day to show that you love, care, adore, and wish to be kind and give to your loved ones and others.

But, here we are.

Addendum: for those of you wondering about the garlic and honey, it’s a natural medicine. It has major health benefits and is rather inexpensive as well. Here’s a YouTube (one of many) about it.

Photos From This Past Weekend

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My new phone “understood the assignment.”

“Pretty in Pink”. Saturday, January 25, 2025. I was about to visit my mom in Greensboro, NC, for a few hours. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Pretty in Pink #2. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Sunday Morning Workout. January 26, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
My plant babies: Lyric, Kosmos, & Dora. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
My plant babies again. Sunday, January 26, 2025.
My “fake, outside plant babies.” They are not named since they aren’t real. Lol! Sunday, January 26, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
My other fake, outside plant baby. January 26, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Dirty Snow Mound & Jernee Timid. Sunday, January 26, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Zumi Tye is being mischievous per usual. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Sunday dinner: the veggies are kale, yellow & orange peppers, onions, and tomatoes.
The complete Sunday dinner: country fried steak, coconut Jasmine rice, and the veggies from in the pot above. Sunday, January 26, 2025. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt

It was a lovely weekend. I’m glad I could truly enjoy spending time with my mom. I did quite a bit of reading, watered my plants, cooked, and loved on my personality-filled pets. Here’s hoping you had a great weekend, and that the week is being kind to you, too.

Have you gotten your copy of my new book: a collection of serial tales & flash fiction, Séduire (E-Book and Paperback) yet?