May I present to you......

The Cherry Hillton is now open

We're pleased to announce that after months of intensive renovations and watching lots of HGTV the guestroom is now officially done. Tada!


Just in time considering the first guests will be arriving tonight. A lovely young couple with 2 kids from Maryland have picked our guest house for their weekend getaway. We also received our first new reservation yesterday. The first week of May is now booked too (hi mom).

Now, as for the rest of the house......

Well, actually, there is the garden. Since our guests have been complaining about the trees or, to be more precise, about dead squirrels thunking out of those trees, we decided to do something about that. I dare those damnably cute squirrels to thunk out of this tree!

A well-done steakhouse

People who have gone out to dinner with me know I like good meat and I like it rare. In our search here for a good steakhouse we decided to go to a fancy place called Porterhouse. At least, it looked fancy and the prices were fancy. I got their signature steak for $36 and ordered it bleu as usual. That usually means slap it on the grill till the outside looks a bit brown and then serve it. The test is to see if they know the term bleu. If they don't, ask for medium. Anyway, 3 steaks were ordered, 2 bleu and one medium. All came out well-done. We complained and sent them back. Now I know the story so far does not seem that interesting but when we drove by the place last weekend and saw the following I just burst out laughing.


I call this a shining example of the dangers of overcooking steaks. Let this be a warning to other steakhouses out there. No wait, that sounds wrong. It wasn't me! I've got an alibi. Maria? Maria?........