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Here I would love to share with you our travels and adventures as international mushroom consultants. MEMOIRS about husband Pieter Vedder, who was a SCIENTIFIC PIONEER in Commercial Mushroom Cultivation Education. His practical handbook is in 9 languages and is called the MUSHROOM BIBLE: https://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2020/08/modern-mushroom-growing-2020-harvesting.html

Friday, October 1, 2010

{Your Giovanni Raspini Guardian Angel}


Almost October and thus, almost Christmas again...
Have you already found a special and unique gift for your loved ones?
Something that is nowhere else available in the US... or Canada?
What about some special high end silver Guardian Angels from Giovanni Raspini, Italy?
Click on the above hyperlink and scroll down all the way to see a variety of angels; just for you.
I will be ordering additional angels, so if yours is not in my Zen Cart powered on line boutique: Mariette's Back to Basics, let me know - I will have them soon in.


Under labels, below my blog, you can also click here on Giovanni Raspini for their different silver items.

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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

{Telling YOU the Tale of our 4 Feline Girls}


As promised yesterday, when I showed you our {You like to meet our three Feline Boys?}; I will now introduce you to our Feline Girls...
But first I have to start at the beginning of this remarkable story. 
In 2006 we went to Acapulco, Mexico on vacation for our winter escape to the tropics. Our hotel was the Hyatt Regency where there was a huge botanical garden and I mean HUGE. In that garden there lived some cats, and I learned that management tolerated BUT 3 cats on that vast property. So once we'd fallen in love with a cat that befriended us; we planned to take her home. But two days prior to departure we found out she had 3 kittens. We left with sagging hearts, since we could not take her home that time... 
 Spicy was such a regal looking, svelte Feline... we LOVED her!
A year later in February 2007 we went back and she FOUND us, which is incredible at such a vast hotel compound with 1,200 rooms... We proceeded by having her vaccinated and brought her home this time. Yes, sweet Spicy flew on the plane with us some 2,500 km or 1,500 miles to her new PURRFECT FOREVER home. Rescued from the risk of being killed (not a very humane way as they described to me...). BUT, surprise... our svelte Spicy as we called her, was growing... That was not because of the good life and love she got from us, but she appeared to be pregnant!
Spicy with her favorite toy... it matched her markings somewhat. Great advertisement for Chick-fil-A!
Proud 'Mamita' Spicy with her 5 babies. Incredible that such a slender feline got 5 healthy babies!
Bandido was her favorite... but she loved them all to death; such a caring Mamita.
Hence the Spanish names for some of her babies... 
We had to keep them; how could you give some away?!
 Spicy looking spent from nursing these five kittens, she was so slender, so elegant.
Here she is dreaming on top of the retainer wall next to our driveway...
Spicy's watchful eye when her five kittens were playing outside...
Sadly, on Sunday, November 4 when we came home from Church, Spicy was gone. We suspect that she got kidnapped since it was such a rare beauty. We never gave up searching for her but so far in vain. Wish she would be found, somewhere... She got spayed, after she got through nursing the babies and would just start enjoying her own life. I've been very heart–broken by her loss and above all, for not knowing where she is.
This is Sacha, one of Spicy's girls. Napping in her oak bed with rose sheet.
Some of you asked if our cats do sleep in these pet beds. YES they do but not so much in summer as they love to be outside or in the gazebo, somewhere. 
Once the UPS guy did deliver goods in winter time and he shook his head as they were ALL in their pet beds; just lined up...
Sacha was a Mackerel Tuxedo Tabby
Sacha is like her Mamita a Tuxedo cat but not black.
This is Tiggy–Tiger the most svelte and elegant of the three girls. She takes after her Mamita with the same six pound body...
She is a Mackerel Tabby Tiger.
Tiggy–Tiger is a mini—cat but very smart!
This is Spunky who is not as svelte and she loves to be a lazy tiger, just lounging around.
Whenever we walk the loop through our wood garden, all others follow us like doggies but Spunky cheats by taking a short cut!
Since January we have this Spicy look-alike and named her Speckie. We still receive info from Animal shelters and such, whenever there is a tuxedo cat found... This time it looked so promising that we took the long trip to the Appalachian mountains for picking her up. The one that would be our Spicy was twice her size though and it was quite obvious that we'd made the trip of six hours one—way in vain... Then I spotted this tiny kitten that was turned in just two days ago and she looked a lot like our missing Spicy. Not the long slender legs but we did take her home with us!
Speckie is not in this picture but everybody LOVES her; as we do...



Tuesday, September 28, 2010

{You like to meet our 3 Feline Boys?}


Okay, having seen now most of our home|garden|gazebo in: {Our Home of almost 20 years} on the outside, let's now introduce some of our Felines.
We love them dearly and as you all know by now, they have plenty of space to roam free. 
They are, like both of us; in paradise!
This is Spooky
 Spooky is a very slender male with long legs.
 Spooky Panterino on the driveway.
Spooky (l) hugging his true brother Bandido while together napping in their oak pet–bed in the garage.
Same hug from Spooky who's on the left.
Bandido, on top of my Toyota RAV4 2-door car. He loves my mini SUV as much as I do!
That car used to be very popular in France when it first came out. Pieter gave me this Cute Ute for my birthday. Got it about seven months later, as it had to be special ordered in Japan with a shift–stick... But I still love it!
This is Barty with {Anita Anggraeni our Foster Daughter}. She LOVED this little guy and he loved her. They were inseparable and Barty missed her for quite a while, when she went back to Indonesia.
Barty is three years older than his two step–brothers Spooky and Bandido. He came from the local Humane Society. Read about their sisters here: {Telling You the Tale of our 4 Feline Girls}
Barty next to my RAV4 and the Pet Beds in the garage.
Well this happens to be also their Breakfast & Supper area; next to their beds...
Are they not well behaved?! 
Together with their sisters (whom I introduce to you later).
They know that their Mami's motto is MANNERS DO COUNT as taught at: Mariette's Back to Basics! 
After supper they all love to groom in our driveway...

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{Telling YOU the Tale of our 4 Feline Girls} | previous post by me

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