It might already be September here in Southern California but I’m not breaking out the sweaters and Ugg boots yet. (But I might be thrift store shopping for them!) Here in Big Bear Lake, we are having a uber-sweaty heat wave. I can never remember a Labor Day weekend where the heat got to be …
I just hiked up a mountain! In a snowstorm! With my favorite vacation dog! In her favorite sweater! Don’t you just love fall weather? I sure know I do! Now I’m ready to eat a bunch of baked goods! As the scenic resort town of Big Bear Lake, California‘s reining pop-up picnic queen I spend …
Last week our Hiker Babe Big Bear group went on our annual stroll through the fall colors with your favorite pup walk. And I of course, as the leader of the group brought homemade pumpkin spice lattes for everyone. This powder is so ridiculously, fresh and aromatic. You will never ever go back to another …
In the immortal words of Green Day circa 1996, Millions of peaches, peaches for me/ Millions of peaches, peaches for free. What would you do with millions of peaches? Okay, actually what should I do with one hundred peaches? That is the question this very early fall. The answer would be to bake many peach …
I’ll always remember the last week of September 2020 as so much noise; Planes and helicopters so loudly flying over our house all day and night as a massive wildfire roared through the mountains to the south of us. The wildfire was burning down one of our favorite mountain peaks to hike in the San …