Tag: Holidays

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 the Christmas & New Year Holidays

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Because I love what this holiday season has offered so far

Christmas dinner: BBQ ox tails, potato salad w/ colossal shrimp, kale w/ onions & tomatoes, and honey cornbread. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Honey cornbread in a cast iron skillet. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Jernee Timid Loadholt: enjoying a late morning nap on my bed, Christmas afternoon. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
My new favorite mug. I mean . . . does it really need a caption? LOL! Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Caison Michael (my baby cousin) showing off his new car. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Jaidynn Rose-Marie (my baby cousin) getting ready for Christmas activities in her bathroom. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
A candle-burning lamp–at the corner of my bar in my kitchen. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
New Year’s Day meal: fried catfish, red beans & rice, and broccoli. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt

I hope the new year has been kind to each of you so far. Prayerfully, we will all make it through this year with beautiful stories to tell and many memories to store for safekeeping. I am sure we will need all the happiness we can get as time hurries on and 2025 turns into 2026 and beyond. Peace and blessings.

Saturday Six Word Story Prompt: Gift

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Prompt for Week #117 December 21, 2024 to December 27, 2024

Title: The Gift of Love

Six Words: Treasured: loved by those who matter.

It’s time for Shweta Suresh’s Saturday Six Word Story Prompt! This week’s theme is “Gift” and here are the prompt details:


Welcome to Week #117 of the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt. Click here to read the guidelines for the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt series. (Psst! I have changed the guidelines recently.)

Prompt for Week #117 (Dec 21, 2024 – Dec 27, 2024)

Gift

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I will do a roundup post each Saturday (or Sunday if I run out of time!). So please be sure to participate before time runs out! I can’t wait to read your stories. 😀 I hope that you’ll be back for next week’s Six Word Story Prompt. Have fun! Thank you for participating. Until next week, folks!

P.S: If you have any doubts/suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out. The comments section is all yours!
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What an appropriate theme/prompt for this week! Shweta has really outdone herself with this one! I loved getting creative for the theme of “Gift”–the six words came straight to me without a pause or hesitation.

And now, it’s your turn? Would you like to get creative with six words for the theme “Gift”?

Happiest of Holidays To You & Yours!

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commercialized imperfection: senryu, 4 parts

Our Christmas Card: Tre, Jernee Timid, Zumi Tye, & The Little Red Christmas Tree. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt

holiday spirits
fester in the winter breeze
money’s not the cause

missions accomplished
all across the globe last night
poor old Santa Claus

blended families
tackle the hard questions now
no more pressing pause

soothsayers bend words
only to save broken hearts
we all have our flaws

To those of you who celebrate, may this Christmas be full of love, joy, strength, and peace for you and yours. I wish you the moon and its powerful glow, too.

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

Photos From the Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend

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It’s been such an enjoyable staycation

Thanksgiving dinner: smothered turkey wings, gravy, Jasmine rice, macaroni-n-cheese, & steamed cabbage with tomatoes and onions
Jernee’s food for the week: ground turkey, corn, green beans, carrots, baked rustic potatoes, & scrambled eggs
Zumi’s food for Thanksgiving morning: ground turkey, blueberries, & turnip greens
Up the block: the Ethan Allen store, Thanksgiving night.
One of the tables on the basement level in my apartment building. I love the spiky piece of art & the lamp, too.
Fitness room shot#1: Saturday morning’s hot spot.
Fitness room shot#2
Duck Donuts box from Friday night.
Saturday morning’s smoothie ingredients: banana, banana peel, diced Honeycrisp apples, 1 garlic clove, 1 piece of ginger root, cinnamon, honey, coconut milk, & ice.
Christmas Tree goodness. Saturday night life–living right.

Thanksgiving weekend
Old Man W i n t e r is happy
it arrived on time

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