Take Your Potting Bench and Make it a Rum Bar

When the weather is rough and the seas too high for sailing kick back and enjoy a rum at your very cheap outdoor bar..made from a potting bench.

Tropic-Al's: Almost Surfside Dining

 Tropic-Al's: A Banana Republic in The Catskills

Cheap Furniture for Landlocked Pirates

Looking for some cheap home made furniture for your poop deck? How about making it out of pallets. Pallets are give aways at many places and often made from oak and other hard woods. Some paint a few screws and cushions then it's all aboard for a mid summer afternoon nap................

After a glass of rum that is

Tropic-Al's: Almost Surfside Dining Tropic-Al's: A Banana Republic in The Catskills

Where Are The Shops Like This in The East

It's March 23rd March Madness is on the tube and it's a whopping 35* with a 20 MPH wind blowing outside. Very hard to get excited about BBQ when it should be 50*..

Then you see pictures like these. All the great smokers parked inside The KC BBQ Store. Bulk bins of hard woods for smoking make this place great.


Then there is that hot sauce mecca in Rehoboth beach DE  peppers.com

                                                                                                  They literally have 3500 hot sauces in stock. Oh to wish for something like this in Upstate NY. Not just in Summer but any time of the year.