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Heidi's fabulous North Coast ocean images brought us together. Our shared passion for chocolate peanut butter cups sealed the deal.

This crazy-fun girl from Oakhurst favors Cayucos in February when visiting with her hubs for their anniversary getaway. She photographs for a hobby, but one particular shadowy post of the Cayucos Pier had me sayin': "Go Heidi, Go!"

Bet she heard a lot of that while racing through the obstacle course of giant balls, slippery slopes and slimy mud before millions of television viewers.

Heidi was happy learning she'd won a box of Joycups in the first blogged-about giveaway. Loves peanut butter cups. Recalled getting Reese's shaped like Christmas Trees during the holidays as a best peanut butter cup experience. Nah, nothing tops the whole chocolate-peanut-butter combo thing. Perfect end to a day of bruisin' by bouncing balls, face-whacking planks and such.

Heidi just happened to mention: "Watch me tonight on 'Wipeout'!" You know. That ABC-TV game show where contestants compete for $50,000 by racing through an obstacle course of craziness. Those able to finish in top times are given nicknames by the show's hosts based on some random trait, like "Headband Guy" for the guy wearing a headband.

Heidi was simply called Heidi. No funny nickname. No time to report--she didn't finish the course. But co-host John Anderson declared she was "awesome" during her final strech. And now there are You-Tube clips worldwide to prove it!

Of Peanuts & Gifts That Keep On Giving

So, made my first peanut butter cups 25 years ago from a recipe printed on a grocer's chocolate brick called Candi-Quik. Being a single mom working through college, there wasn't a lot of cash for Christmas giving.

Candi-Quik is good enough, but tastes pretty waxy. I used generic peanut butter for the filling and was surprised when the cups actually came out okay. Had fun packing them up in Dollar Store tins, totally unaware that in the minds of my friends and fam, Danna-Joy's peanut butter cups were not a one-time taste tease. They were the new tradition.

Some practically revolted if peanut butter cups were not under the tree or on the desk at the holiday break. A clotheshorse bro-in-law could have cared less one year about the two stylin' dress shirts that were just his size. "Did you bring me any peanut butter cups?" he demanded. "If I didn't get any peanut butter cups this year, get out of my house."

HA! Such a kidder. Kinda like my old partner in crime. I returned from our last Christmas working together at probation to find most people in our unit didn't get the peanut butter cups I'd left in containers on their desks. By then I was creating from my own recipe using premium dark Guittard chocolate and sea salts blended with ground organic peanuts from Sunshine Health Foods in Morro Bay.

Love that Sunshine grinding machine. So does my granddaughter, Sarah-Joy. Love those nutty ground Sunshine peanuts blended with creamy, dark-roasted Santa Cruz organic peanut butter for the perfect texture and taste. (At the time of the missing cup caper, experimenting with local berries was just a what-if?, but the chocolate peanut butter cups were definitely getting tastier).

Didn't take but a minute to figure out my partner had helped himself to everyone else's stash. He had a habit of doing that. He's in New Mexico now doing super-duper top secret federal work. He still got a special gift of Joycups this year. Might get another box for Christmas, too. If he behaves himself.