join our mailing list
* indicates required

The Best 12 Inches in the Midwest

Get your mind out of the gutter! I’m talking about 12 inches of the best meat in the Midwest. Not that kind of meat, people.
This is BBQ we’re talking about. 12inches of BBQ kabobs for just $5.00. Yee-haw y’all. Welcome to Missouri!
***
For more blogs about the Apple Butter Festival:
Kimmswick Apple Butter Festival
Baetje Farms
The Perfect Gift
Apple Butter [...]

Halloween (belated)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know it’s the middle of November, but I love Halloween.
There’s something about dressing up as someone else for the night that makes me feel free. By far, my favorite costume in recent years was the hand-made Wonder Woman costume I made in 2003. I wore it again in 2005. Here it [...]

Bee Tree Park

I spent my Sunday tooling around South County St. Louis in a convertible, taking in the sunshine and enjoying good company. After a great omelet and coffee and First Watch, we headed to Bee Tree Park to get some exercise.
The park sits along the Mississippi River and has concrete and gravel trails for walking, jogging or biking.
We stood [...]

Darth Vader and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

For those of you who don’t already know this, I’m a classically trained musician.
Despite my classical training and despite having lived an hour from St. Louis for eighteen years of my life, I had never seen the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra perform in Powell Symphony Hall. There’s a first for everything, and this weekend I [...]

Please, Feed the Animals

Petting zoos are such odd things. Can you imagine trucking your camels and llamas and goats around to fairs and festival and carnivals, charging a nominal feel to let people pet them?
This particular mobile petting zoo was set up at – you guessed it – the Kimmswick Apple Butter Festival. Camels and goats and llamas, [...]

Apple Butter Festival Train

The  Apple Butter Festival is a huge, two-day festival every October in historic Kimmswick, Missouri. This year was my first time attending, and I was impressed by the size of the event. Hundreds of food and craft vendors set up tents, the Blue Owl served food in and outside of the restaurant, Kimmswick’s shops were [...]