“And they’re off!” To Big Bear Lake for another fabulous Kentucky Derby party. Want to host the best Kentucky Derby party west of the Mississippi? Kentucky Derby party ideas are easier than hitting a Pick 6 on Derby day! If you’ve never thrown a Kentucky Derby party, let me just say—what are you waiting for? …
Snowshoeing up epic mountain peaks with my adventure dog at my side. A twelve-mile mountain bike ride followed by a zen-like cold plunge into an alpine lake in April. Hand feeding my Norwegian Forest Cat fistfuls of organic home-grown catnip in my backyard. I may not be Julie Andrews as Maria from The Sound of …
Today in Big Bear Lake California, we took all of Big Bear’s most well-behaved pooches on a snow hike by the donkey graveyard. After a donkey graveyard snow hike, of course, I am ready to create a Keto Chicken Alfredo lunch! But first snow dog shenagians We have about three hundred wild burros who call …
Okay, yes, I have been a little obsessed with venison recently. As someone who has an eccentric Cousin Bob from Idaho (Okay, maybe Cousin Bob is not that eccentric, he’s just a democrat), I grew up my whole life lusting after venison and antelope when my family from Idaho Falls would travel from Idaho to …
I blinked and I almost missed snowshoe season! Now that it is April here in our ski town, I may just be hanging up the snowshoes and pulling my mountain bike out of storage. If mountain biking season is on the horizon, then that means I will have zero gluten in my life. My gluten …

