Way back in what seems like a lifetime ago, I lived on the island of Oahu in Honolulu, Hawaii. I attended the university of Hawaii where I earned a degree in Home Economics Education. I lived in Hawaii for a total of 8 years and taught Home Economics to high school students. One day when […]
SOUR CREAM PANCAKES Happy Weekend! I am the mother of 5 children and all but one of them have flown the nest. I have a little over a year until I will have an empty nest. In the meantime, however, my youngest chickadee, Austin, frequently feathers my nest with various and sundry other children that […]
My son, Taylor, is a devil, a BLUE DEVIL that is! So come basketball season we all get a little wild and crazy around here. We don Duke T shirts, or in Taylor’s case, he dons blue paint…… Megaphones are used to proclaim our excitement. We want to make sure that the entire mountain knows […]
HOW TO WIN A CHILI COOK-OFF Hello and thanks for stopping in today. As you may know if you’ve been following along here, my son, Austin, is an avid skier. He races for Rim of the World High School. As I’ve told you in this previous post, skiing is a very expensive sport! So, every […]
Hi There! Remember I told you we bought a real fixer-upper little cottage in nearby Big Bear Lake, California? I showed you the before photos of the cottage here. And I showed you the demolition process here. Well, today I thought I’d give you a progress report. Don’t misunderstand, the cottage is now fully completed and […]
WARNING! To all my vegetarian friends, you’re excused now. Carnivore commentary is ahead! So, now that that’s settled, I’m going to share with you a super delicious and super easy recipe I just got from my hairdresser! I love my hairdresser. I drive over an hour to go to my hairdresser, Melinda. Those […]
Buenos Dias. For dinner tonight I’m making one of my all-time favorite dishes. It’s my go-to dinner recipe when I want to make something quick, easy and delicious, with ingredients I always have on hand. It’s my Tortilla Española Recipe, or Spanish Tortilla. I can just hear you saying to yourself: “That doesn’t look like a tortilla.” […]
Do you remember this lovely living room?…… And this lovely entry?…… And this lovely kitchen?…… Well, we took a wrecking ball to it…… And a sledge hammer…… And a broom…… And a blower, and a rake, and a saw…… And we found really nasty stuff inside the walls because, after all, this charming, vintage cottage […]
After Orange County is a publication dedicated to living life in the slow lane. I escaped The OC for life at a higher elevation. Leaving suburbia behind, I now live in the beautiful mountain resort of Lake Arrowhead. Join me at 5,000 feet above and beyond as I cook, garden, renovate, entertain, travel and live life After Orange County.
