January 11, 2011 - 10:30am
Sometimes I forget that hiking in the winter has its unique joys....
With snow on the ground this past weekend, I thought it would be nice to hike at Jefferson Memorial Forest. Temperatures being in the twenties, I wasn't looking for a long hike, so I took the Yost Ridge Trail from the Welcome Center, merged with the Mitchell Hill Lake trail, and hiked up to the...
July 29, 2012 - 8:03pm
This damn snow keeps hanging around, but let me paint a picture for you from a Germantown summer's perspective. During the grey winter months when the ground is frozen and the deciduous trees are bare, motionless, and dormant, I often find myself daydreaming of plush summers. Summers that blow the captivating mulberry tree's breeze passed our nostrils, while its fruit speckle stains the walkways of our backyards...
During the grey winter months when the ground is frozen and the deciduous trees are bare, motionless, and dormant, I often find myself daydreaming of plush summers. Summers when the stench of the stockyards has crept its way abnormally further than usual, and peaked its putrid head far across the...
February 15, 2010 - 7:07pm
With 6-8 inches of snow forecasted, this constitutes a veritable blizzard for Louisville. And lots of snow means one thing for kids...sledding! Check out Metro Parks' recommendations for the best (and safest) hills for sledding in the Louisville area.
Sledding is fun...but not so much when someone gets hurts. Sending a small child down a huge hill at speeds of over 100 miles per hour conjures up images of Chevy Chase in "Christmas Vacation". This is why parents are often understandably nervous about letting their kids go...
July 29, 2012 - 8:06pm
Enjoy your snow day on this Crescent Hill, uh, hill.
Remember when we used to enjoy snow days? I sure do, especially as I stare at my computer screen. During snow days in Ohio, where I'm from, we'd race to the nearest sledding hill, trying to be the first to shred down it. As of my morning commute, nobody had deflowered Crescent Hill's best hill,...
January 8, 2010 - 11:04am
The combination of milk, bread, and eggs (which are currently stocked up in cupboards all over the city) is quite delicious.
I'm no different than most and stopped by to pick up a few staples yesterday. Thanks to my mom, here is a way to help combine and consume your oversupply since Blizzard '10 seems to have skipped us.
CINNAMON SYRUP
1c. sugar
1/2 c. light corn syrup
1/4 c. water
1 c. chopped walnuts
1/2 tsp...
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