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Monthly Archive for July, 2012

Battling the heat- I am not winning.

It is currently 98 degrees outside with a real feel of 109.  Guess what… our air conditioning went out yesterday afternoon- hello heat and welcome to my house, please don’t stay long.  While I can’t get an actual temperature reading in my house, you can imagine that it is a little on the uncomfortable side.  […]

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Pink Lemonade Pie

We got back from our month in the mountains on Saturday evening.  When we left Twilight on Saturday morning at 6:30am it was 56 degrees.  When we arrived in Charleston 14 hours and 40 minutes later at just after 9pm, it was 86 degrees.  We had only been gone for 30 days, but that heat […]

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Please Shoo-Fly Pie

I went for my last hike up High Peak yesterday.  High Peak is actually the 22nd highest peak in the Catskills but because of its profile or where it sits, it looks like the highest peak- hence the name.  Anyway, the great thing about the hike is that I can actually walk out the door […]

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Banana Pudding and BBQ

This question may have been asked a million times, but it hadn’t occurred to me until recently- why is banana pudding always served as dessert at BBQ restaurants?  Not that I am complaining at all- I love banana pudding, it is one of my favorites.  It is such a staple at my favorite BBQ haunts, […]

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Maggie’s Krooked Cafe

When I moved back to Charleston after two years in the Catskills, I was hanging out with a group of people one night, and a friend of a friend asked from where had I just moved back.  Assuming that most people in South Carolina are not familiar with the tiny towns in the Catskill mountains, […]

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We had some friends up to visit us in the Catskills last weekend with their three boys.  It was so great to see them, and I think they enjoyed escaping the heat that was attacking the rest of the country.  Our friends had never spent much time in the Catskills, and I think we made converts […]

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