On Monday the Danbury Depot in East Stroudsburg was pretty much gutted by a fire: http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091027/NEWS/910270328 Dansbury Depot has been an essential part of the Poconos history for many years, it is a National Historic Landmark that originally was a train station. We would eat at the Depot about once every few months, usually … [Read more...]
Giant Supermarket / Food Opening on November 4th
I passed by the Giant supermarket that is going in on 611 over the weekend and there are signs outside saying that it will open on November 4th. The number of cars out front is deceiving though as almost the entire parking lot was filled - I assume with people stocking shelves. It makes you wonder though if there will be enough parking when it does open. Keep in mind there … [Read more...]
Shawnee Mountain Hot Air Balloon Festival
Shawnee Mountain has a variety of events throughout the year, one event that I wanted to get to but I'm just way too busy this weekend is the Timber & Balloon Festival. This past week has been a mess weather wise - snow, rain, cold. The festival ran from Friday night through Sunday, Saturday morning it was snowing so it probably would have been pretty miserable, but today … [Read more...]
First snowfall in the Poconos, no I’m not joking
It gets me every year...just when I think that snow can't begin, or end, too late here it comes. It's just barely mid-October, it's the peak week for the fall changing of the leaves and what's this? From my weather.com email alert: "AS THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES FARTHER OFFSHORE THE INTENSITY WILL LESSEN OVERNIGHT AND ACCUMULATING SNOW SHOULD COME TO AN END DURING … [Read more...]
Apple Picking, Pumpkin Picking, Cut your Own Christmas Tree
Monday was Columbus Day so we left work a little bit early to head out to do some pumpkin and apple picking. The problem is I really couldn't find anywhere that had both available. PUMPKIN PICKING When "pumpkin picking" you really need to be sure that you read the fine print so that if you're actually expecting to pick pumpkins off the vine that they have it available. … [Read more...]