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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 3/20/2006, you wrote:
> We are currently living in Minnesota,

Not a good place to grow tropical peppers.

> we go down to Missouri several
> times a year looking a land and floating down the various rivers/creeks
> in our canoe.

Any recommendations?  I plan to be in Southern Missouri this next fall and 
will have the kayak along.  I hope to share a Fat Tire Ale with Gene and 
meet a few other people in the area.

>  Our eventual hope is to find a small acreage(10-40 acres)
> with some riverfront.

I am also looking for a place to stop.  My wants include some access to 
water so I can go play in it.

I am hoping to find some affordable acreage where I can build a small house 
and shop.  I want room for a garden, chickens, and bees.  Maybe southern 
Missouri is the place.  I grew up in northern Missouri and have always 
enjoyed the Ozarks.

>   My son is 12, for some reason loves to grow hot
> peppers, but we have yet to actually make anything of them.  I'd like to
> make some pico de gaio(sp?), and a well balanced salsa.  We recently got
> a book on salsa so we are going to make the effort to try a few recipes
> from it, though I may be the only one to actually eat it.

I am a fan of fresh salsa.  The stuff in glass jars just does not cut 
it.  One of my favorites is a garlic salsa we gat at the farmers 
market.  While I was travelling around last year the one thing I could not 
get was fresh salsa so I am looking for recipes to make my own.

Don Bowen                          Awl Knotted Up
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