The spice rack is full of same colored duplicates of seasonings which we already have in bottles from the grocery store. Many smell like hay. There are no expensive spices in there such as Whole cloves and Nutmeg, Saffron.
When I look in the spice collection for the seasonings which I do not have elsewhere, Dried onion flakes, and Garlic powder, as called for in this recipe, they are missing from the spice rack.
Two one-inch diameter snails on the inside of a leaf stump.
A snail on the inside of a leaf stump of a Sabal palm at the south side of the kitchen garden. The living snails are attached to something. Colorless fallen snails are empty and dead.
Gloves are required to hand-pick snails to drop into some coke, which kills them. I thus collected about 20 snails, lidded the jar, and placed it into the trash. This is an organic way to reduce snail population numbers. The gloves are needed, because the snails ride on slime, and when you pick them up it will get on hands.
Judging from his size, I strongly suspect that this is the same possum which was in our compost pile a couple of weeks ago. Since I have not seen him in my compost pile in the meantime, it seems that he has been eating somewhere else. He ran in front of me, then cut over to the other side of the fence. 
Maybe he hid behind the Amaryllis under the Sago palm. He really scampers pretty fast.
