Recipe: Delicious Summer Corn and Tomato Salad
This post contains affiliate links. For our full advertising disclosure, see our About page. It’s the 4th of July weekend, and chances are, you’re invited to a pot luck this weekend. Well never fear — I just threw together the BEST summer corn and tomato salad, all stuff that’s fresh and in season right now. Ingredients: 2 ears […]
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Trip Report: Weekend in Las Vegas and the 2016 Garth Brooks World Tour
Being that I grew up in a small town in Texas, with my formative years in the 1990s, Garth Brooks music was an undeniably large part of my young life. So when I found out that the beginning of his new world tour happened to coincide with a free room comp offer I had received from a […]
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Perfect Summer Dinner: GRILL ALL THE THINGS!
Y’all. Have you been outside today?! It’s mother-flippin’ hot out there. Apparently while we were off galivanting around Alaska, Texas decided to flip the switch into full-blown-summer. There is one consolation prize that Mother Nature gives us for this balls-hot weather. And that’s that a whole bunch of yummy things are ripening up around central Texas […]
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Why are my bees going crazy?!
It happens to all beekeepers. You’ve done your homework (you think) on backyard beekeeping. You built (or ordered) a hive. You received your bees, and even managed to get them into your hive without getting stung! And then it happens…right around dinnertime…your bees go CRAZY! Are they swarming? Do they hate their new hive? Are […]
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More Freebies: Check Your Ticketmaster Account!
Hat tip to my friend Richard H. for discovering this one – but as a result of settling a class action lawsuit about their ridiculous ticket fees, Ticketmaster is handing out goodies to people who purchased event tickets on the site between 1999-2013. If you login to your account and visit the “active vouchers” section, […]
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Free Car2Go Membership – can be used in US, Canada and Europe!
As any frequent traveler knows, rental cars kinda suck. Picking them up is often a hassle, followed by the tricky tango to make sure you don’t get hit with any extra fees or unnecessary “upgrade” charges, and then you may end up having to pay a pricey parking fee at your hotel on top of […]
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Low-carb Dinner: Thai Peanut & Sesame Chicken Lettuce Wrap
Now that we’re back from Alaska, we’re back on another low-carb kick. This time around, though, I’ve created some new recipes that we’ve really enjoyed, and I’ll share them with you in the coming weeks. Tonight’s dish was peanut & sesame chicken lettuce wraps. I’ve shared a recipe for lettuce wraps before, but the chicken and […]
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My Three Most Important Cruise Planning Websites
For most vacations, there are plenty of established tools like Yelp, TripAdvisor, and myriad travel guides that travelers can turn to in order to help plan their itinerary. But with cruise vacations, it can often be a real challenge to get the unbiased info necessary to really rock out your trip. With our third cruise […]
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Garden Update: Everything’s Coming Up Salsa!
One of the most frequently visited posts I’ve done on this blog is about how we built a diy raised bed vegetable garden. It’s been over a year since we first planted anything, and in that time we’ve had HUGE yields of just about everything we put in the ground. Lately, it’s all about the […]
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Trip Report: Hyatt Olive 8, Altura, Eden Hill, and more in Seattle
Ed. Note: This is the final post in our six-part series of “Trip Reports” from our recent trip to Seattle, British Columbia and Alaska aboard the Celebrity Solstice. You may also enjoy parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Once we’d disembarked and said goodbye to the Celebrity Solstice, it was a quick cab over to the Hyatt at Olive […]
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