Whether you’re planning to celebrate the New Year 2009 with family at home or out on the town in Morris and Somerset County, New Jersey, if you’re staying local for the holidays, Roxy’s going to help you find what you need to make the season special. I’ve put together a list of Roxy’s Best Of… [...]
Read More»Rex, London, Maddie and I were out and about last night at a friends’ holiday open house. Our group got to talking about Pierre’s in Harding Township, one of our favorite restaurants that is closing after their last hurrah on New Year’s Eve. A neighbor added that Opah Grill in Gladstone, NJ, has also closed, [...]
Read More»I’ve been lax about updating Roxy’s Best Of… Laguna Beach, California while the snow falls here at home in Mendham Township, New Jersey… and Mary Alice and her family have headed off for the holidays in New Zealand without so much as a goodbye post to all of you. However, an e-mail I received from [...]
Read More»The weather outside was frightful, but our Christmas Eve dinner at Due Terre was delightful.
All day long, the icy rain poured down. When Rex went out in the morning to bring in some provisions from Shop Rite in Chester, NJ, I called his Blackberry to suggest that he pick up some ingredients for dinner and [...]
As my loyal Roxiticus Desperate Housewives and Roxy’s Best Of… readers know, our family always celebrates the holidays twice… one Christmas at my mom’s house, and one Christmas Saturday with Rex’s family gathered here with us in the Roxiticus Valley. Yesterday Rex’s family joined us to celebrate Christmas with a “roasted fresh ham for [...]
Read More»What is it about the holidays that always seems to bring plumbing problems to our home? Over the past five years since we’ve lived here in Mendham Township, New Jersey, we’ve had the following holiday plumbing incidents:
Thanksgiving 2003: Backed up toilet in the half bath off the kitchen
Thanksgiving 2004: Broken washing machine
Christmas [...]
What is it about the holidays that always seems to bring plumbing problems to our home? Over the past five years since we’ve lived here in Mendham Township, New Jersey, we’ve had the following holiday plumbing incidents:
Thanksgiving 2003: Backed up toilet in the half bath off the kitchen
Thanksgiving 2004: Broken washing machine
Christmas 2005: Broken hot [...]
Eagles have returned to the Connecticut River Valley to nest. There’s plenty of viewing points to see them soaring as well as hunting in the wild along the Connecticut River.
Because of the Endangered Species Act, the American eagle population is now increasing its numbers.
Eagles can also be found in other areas of Connecticut. In [...]
I’ve just received the special Christmas Eve Dinner menu from Matthew Rotella, the manager at Due Terre Enoteca in Bernardsville, New Jersey, and we’ve decided… we’re on for an early Christmas Eve dinner at Due Terre tonight after the annual Christmas Pageant at Hilltop Church in Mendham.
I’ve posted the complete menu below, but it looks [...]
Read More»My loyal Roxiticus Desperate Housewives and Roxy’s Best Of… readers know that my two girls, London and Maddie, have started a basement band (the garage is too cold this time of year) called the Butter Bites. The girl band has asked Santa to bring them a set of drums for Christmas to add to their [...]
Read More»As my loyal Roxy’s Best Of… readers know, our family summers at the beach in Bay Head, New Jersey, but our full time home (where London and Maddie go to school) is up north in Mendham Township. If you do live down at the beach all year round, however, please consider a tax deductible donation before [...]
Read More»One of the hazards of winter here in the Roxiticus Valley is the damage done by the snowplows as the drivers work quickly in the dead of night to clear our roads of snow and ice. With the first serious snowstorm of Winter 2008-09, the snowplows smashed our mailbox and its wooden support structure to smithereens. However, [...]
Read More»Yea, we finally have snow on the ground for the holidays! Last night parts of Connecticut received almost one foot of snow. It’s always nice to have some on the ground to get everyone in the holiday mood.
Many children will be on school break until after the New Year. If you’re looking for a great [...]
I know the discussions to shake up various school districts, including West Morris Regional and Mendham Township, have been going on for quite some time, but I’ve been unable to bring myself to either attend the meetings or write about the various combinations under consideration. The headline in this week’s Observer-Tribune reads: “District Shakeup Gains [...]
Read More»If you’re like me, with less than a week until Christmas, you may have made a list and checked it twice, you may even have it divided into suitable gifts for naughty and nice, but you haven’t purchased and wrapped your gifts for everyone on the list….particularly if you’re still lacking the inspiration to surprise [...]
Read More»If you’re like me, with less than a week until Christmas, you may have made a list and checked it twice, you may even have it divided into suitable gifts for naughty and nice, but you haven’t purchased and wrapped your gifts for everyone on the list….particularly if you’re still lacking the inspiration to surprise [...]
Read More»While I was waiting for my regular New Jersey Transit train to New York City at the station in Bernardsville, NJ, I happened to notice a billboard promoting Paths to Impressionism, an exhibit of French and American landscape paintings from the Worcester Art Museum, at the Newark Museum. The exhibit is drawing to a close, but you [...]
Read More»Now here’s something to get excited about and break up the Winter doldrums!
I’ve always enjoyed ice skating on glistening frozen winter ponds here in Connecticut. When older, the Winter Olympic ice skaters always fascinated me.
If you’re looking for a great fun-filled family event to take the children or grandchildren to ~ check this out and [...]
To everyone who made a contribution to the Community FoodBank of NJ and/or helped to raise awareness of hunger here at home in New Jersey, thank you so much for participating. According to our fearless leader, Deb of JerseyBites, yesterday’s event was a great success. We got some nice online coverage… the FoodChannel has us [...]
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Saturday night’s Santa rampage was a rampaging success with over 300 Santas in this one gathering.
Click here or on one of the pics to catch a glipse of Santa Rampage 2008, Austin Style.
Check here to see where and when your next opportunity to participate will be.
As everyone knows, gas prices were through the roof this past summer. Many of us did quite a bit of day-tripping, taking in the local scenery and staying close to home.
Connecticut has a gorgeous and vibrant shoreline. It’s easy to take a drive and enjoy the local clam shacks and down-east lobster dinners.
What many folks [...]
No matter how you feel about the government bailout of the nation’s largest banks, I think you’ll agree that there’s one bank that we can’t allow to fail: the Community FoodBank of New Jersey. Over 100 New Jersey bloggers have united to fight local NJ hunger in a coordinated “This Bank Can’t Fail” blogging campaign [...]
Read More»Hi everyone ~ I’m Cindi, and I’m delighted as well as excited to have been invited to be a Contributing Editor on Roxy’s Best of Hartford, CT.
I’m a lifelong native of Connecticut ~ which as many of you know, is one of the smallest states in the union. If there’s an event going on here [...]
Over on my Roxiticus Desperate Housewives site, I’ve been running a weekly feature called Roxy Saves, where I’ve gathered promotional codes from online retailers and made suggestions for unique and inexpensive holiday gifts. Here at Roxy’s Best Of… I’ve been more focused on the “bricks and mortar” holiday savings available from our wealth of [...]
Read More»While Erik and his band of merry Santas, Mrs. Clauses and Elves were on the Santa Rampage in Austin, Texas yesterday, our family continued a quieter holiday tradition here in the Roxiticus Valley, New Jersey.
London, Maddie, Rex and I headed over to Alstede Farms in Chester, New Jersey to pick out a fresh cut eight [...]
Sure, there are plenty of malls in the bay area where you can take your kid to meet Santa. But none of those consumerist meccas compare to the Tilden Park carousel. Nestled high up in the Berkeley hills, you drive along dark roads until you see the explosion of color. There’s a huge tree all [...]
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All photos courtesy Steve Hobson
Tonight, December 2008 13th 7p-?
Dress to impress (Santa style) and join us (other Santas, Mrs. Claus, Elves, Reindeer) as we march across
Congress Bridge and Elf-slap downtown Austin upside it’s Santa infested head!
Location: Meeting at Fiddlerʼs Hearth, 301 Barton Springs for Santa Drink Specials and a Santa Buffet for only $8.
All North [...]
Twenty years ago, during my first holiday season after graduating from college, I went up to Boston to visit one of my best high school girlfriends, Grey Hound, and learned about Boston’s tradition for celebrating New Year’s Eve. Even though it is technically the last night of the old year, Bostonians call their celebration “First [...]
Read More»Welcome to Roxy’s Best Of… Hartford, Connecticut, one of the very first Roxy blogs not written by Roxy. I’d like to introduce you to Cindi, a.k.a. Moomette, best known in and around the blogosphere for her blogs, Moomette’s Magnificents; and Moomettesgrams Favorite Recipes.
Read More»London and Maddie brought home the following good news in their backpack mail from Mendham Township Superintendent of Schools Kristopher Harrison:
RE: Mendham Township Elementary School Principal Update
Dear MTES Community,
The search is currently underway to identify the next leader of Mendham Township Elementary School. The community of Mendham Township is very fortunate to have had a large number [...]
