If you like Mexican food - try this one it's scrumtious!

This is one is from Auntie Chris Martinez recipe which Joy probably made way more then she has and changed some too.

1/2 lb chorizo (the Mexican melty kind)
1 1/2 lbs ground beef
3 16 oz cans refried beans
Salsa (not the watery kind)
Lots of grated cheese (cheddar, jack…or Mexican cheese blend
Optional: sautéed diced onion with diced jalapeno and crushed garlic
Sliced black olives


If you choose the optional mix the chorizo and ground beef in with the onion mix and drain when cooked. Heat the beans with some salsa and Tabasco and a little cheese to make it spreadable. Layer the meat then the bean mix top with cheese and sliced black olives. We use this dish a lot for making burrito lunches and potlucks. Yum!

More memory!

Lately, I’ve been shooting a lot of pictures in the RAW mode and running out of memory. Solution, buy another CF or a portable digitial storage. I bought a USB portable digital storage w/ a card reader VP-3620S at geeks.com and a 1.8” 30GB hard drive Toshiba MK3006GAL on eBay (total cost $125 less than 4GB CF and 7.5 times more storage capacity – that’s a lot of pictures). It works great, a 1GB CF card only takes 5 minutes to transfer and it’s so easy to use. The VP-3620s support most of the memory cards and the USB host can to talk to a PDA, USB Flash drive, mobile phone, or Digital camera (didn't work with my 30d, but it did work w/my Cybershot). It’s also a MP3 player, FM radio and voice recorder. Geeks also sell the VP-3620s with a refurbished 40GB drive part# B-40GBXDRIVE-K2 for $160.
I just like high-tech gadgets.

Waiting for thunder showers.

I went to the beach last Friday to shoot some thunder showers but the thunder never showed up. This is how the weather turn out.

Cabrillo has landed!

Journey back to Sept 28, 1542, when Cabrillo a Portuguese navigator sailing under the flag of Spain, landed here and named it San Miguel which now San Diego. Cabrillo and his men stayed here for 6 days, trading with the native Kumeyaay people living around the bay.

I went to the Cabrillo Monument Park to take some pictures after work and found out that their was a Cabrillo Festival event the whole week. The Kumeyaay natives were dancing at the Cabrillo Monument Park Friday before sunset and Sunday a re-enactment of Cabrillo’s landing began after lunch. I was here for 3 days just taking pictures.