Hi Internet Friends, it’s me Pepper Rouse. That’s my stupid brother Walter next to me. Thanks to Walter, Dad locked us in the house. I’m like most girls, about twice as smart as the men in our lives. Dad let us out this morning to do chores and as usual Walter started chasing the chickens....Read More
Camp Baltimore was a parody song I wrote and performed in 1992. The original song was a 1963 top 5 hit by Alan Sherman called Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh about a kid writing home from summer camp. I thought what if Baltimore was the actual summer camp a kid from out of town would be...Read More
They say updating your kitchen and bathrooms are sure things for increasing your homes value. We just updated our master bath! I think it came out nicely. Here I am just testing the fit and comfort.Read More
Have you ever continuously tripped over the same root in your lawn or banged your elbow time and again on that chair in your kitchen? TV and radio sports guy Bruce Cunningham described his nemesis in old Memorial Stadium on our “Lunch with Steve and Maynard” podcast available August 6, 2025!Read More
This is a tough time of the season for the backyard garden. I can’t tell you how many people have started off with a beautiful garden, come home from their week or two away on a summer vacation, to find their garden now overwhelmed with weeds and yucky looking plants. So many have thrown in...Read More
It was a typical summer day on our market farm in Maryland, 35 minutes north of Baltimore, with 92 degrees and high humidity. The “feel like” temperature, which is big with the local weather people, was 105 degrees! Stopping midway through my work in one of the vegetable plots to pull up my t-shirt and...Read More
In our interview with Bruce Cunningham, he shared his biggest blunder! Catch the full interview on the Lunch with Steve and Maynard podcast – dropping August 6th on therealsteverouse.com and on all major podcast platforms! What’s your most embarrassing blunder??Read More
THE CHICKS HAVE STARTED TO LAY!! Wait a minute, let me rephrase that. The new chicks are now 16 and a half weeks old and we have our first little eggs!!! It will take another couple of weeks before the eggs get up to regular size. It’s a little earlier than I expected. Usually it’s...Read More
A certain disaster turned into a grand moment during the 11 gun salute honoring my 5 generation grandfather Jacques Rouse the other day in Rouses Point, N.Y. Apparently one of the riflemen was a rookie and didn’t no he wasn’t supposed to load an actual bullet in his weapon. I just happened to be walking...Read More
