I’m always the first to say it “I can’t wait for fall” The oranges, yellows and reds of the Big Bear Valley make late September into October my favorite time of year in Big Bear Lake. This year is nothing but nothing but frustrating for this autumn lover. Due to the ongoing effects of the …
I may not know a lot about fashion blogging, okay I know very little about fashion blogging but I do know (Now) That when you are crossing an international border you might not want to dress like a redneck. Did our family learn this the hard way at the international border crossing this summer? Well …
It’s fall here in southern California. That means leaves crunching under my hiking boots once again and I’m no longer afraid to turn on my oven. If it’s early September then I am faced with a difficult conundrum, should I turn on my oven? Or should I take my fat ass for a hike? This …
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 …
I find food with pumpkin in it this scary. As someone who really can’t stand pumpkin pie or pumpkin spice anything I sure do love to grow pumpkins in my garden. Watching my baby pumpkin plants slowly emerge from the soil in our front yard brings me all kinds of autumn joy. When I …