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. M … [Read more...]
What’s new in the Poconos
Well, since I last posted the Sonic on 611 is up and running! The shopping center (strip mall) next to it opened up over the summer as well. It has a Verizon Wireless Kiosk Store, a puppy store, Moe's Mexican Grill, Dunkin Donuts, Hair cutting place, and a Hibachi place. Personally my 2 experiences with Sonic have not been that great, I've been told its what you order but fo … [Read more...]
Sonic coming to the Poconos
Recently just about any food chain you can imagine has popped up into the Stroudsburg area of the Poconos - and now you can chalk up another one with a Sonic being planned to go in on Route 611 near the new Gamestop/Moe's/Dunkin Donuts/Verizon Wireless plaza. … [Read more...]