I have an old entry with a photo of the trumpet lily but I didn’t know it’s name back then. Thanks to readers and friends, I know now.



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I have an old entry with a photo of the trumpet lily but I didn’t know it’s name back then. Thanks to readers and friends, I know now.



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Casa is Spanish for house. CASA is also an acronym for Connie, Antonio, Sam and Alex. We are all surnamed Veneracion. We all love to take photos -- of anything that catches our fancy. It's a family obsession.
This is a journal of how we live, eat, learn, play and have fun. Work? Work is part of playing and having fun. Seriously.

In 2003, a time when I hadn't heard of the term "blog", I started a recipe website at cooking.houseonahill.net using a now defunct content management system that ran on ASP. Ok, never mind the geek talk, I'm sure you're not interested in that. The contents easily multiplied and, in 2004, I moved the food site to pinoycook.net. Always unhappy with the fact that the dot com versions of houseonahill and pinoycook weren't … (click here to read all »)

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miss ko tuloy ang garden ko.
Hehehe di ba yan yung parang marijuana ang effect?
yup, ilaga lang sa tubig at inumin. one week bago mawala ang effect.
One week? Man, that’s one long trip. hahahaha