San Antonio Apartment Living: August 2018

Welcome to this month’s edition of San Antonio Apartment Living, brought to you by Hunter’s Glen, our apartments for rent in San Antonio, TX. This month we’re bringing our residents ideas for celebrating national holidays, enjoying movies coming to theaters, and making the most of the month in other ways. Read on to learn more about these topics in today’s blog post.

 

August Celebrations

National Picnic Monthrainbow over a picnic table with a checkered tablecloth and a wicker basket

We have the perfect way for you to celebrate National Picnic Month. Visit our local Denman Estate Park!

 

“Gilbert Denman Estate Park offers our residents the opportunity to enjoy quality time with their family and friends in the great outdoors.  Pack a picnic lunch and head out to the park to enjoy the fresh air and sunshine today. Walk the trail and view the beautiful Korean monument, hand-crafted by artisans from our sister city Gwangju, Korea. Alcohol is prohibited, amenities are first come, first serve.”

 

MacArthur Park is located just 5 minutes from Hunter’s Glen.

National Peach Month

August is National Peach Month. To celebrate, we’re making Peach Cobbler as found on the Allrecipes website. Here’s a note from the Editor:

 

“To use fresh peaches, you may substitute 4 cups peeled, sliced peaches for the canned peaches. To peel peaches, bring a pot of water to a boil. Remove from heat. Carefully drop peaches into hot water; let stand for 1 minute. Use a slotted spoon to transfer peaches to an ice water bath; when peaches are cool enough to handle, skin will slip right off.”

 

August Holidays

National S’mores Daycloseup shot of person holding a smore on their lap

Food Network is host to hundreds of delicious recipes, including those for classic s’mores.

 

“For the perfect classic s'more you have to have melty chocolate, gooey toasty marshmallow and crisp graham cracker. There are a million ways to personalize a s'more using flavored chocolates, adding nuts or dried fruits or jams. Explore. Enjoy.”

 

For this recipe, you’ll need graham crackers, milk chocolate, salt, and large marshmallows.

 

Click the above link for more information about this recipe.

 

National Watermelon Day

This annual celebration may have just passed us on Friday, August 3rd, but that’s not going to stop us from celebrating all month long. Have you ever made watermelon jerky? If you have a dehydrator, this is the perfect recipe to try it out in your apartment this month.

 

Instructions for Watermelon Jerky:

 

  1. Cut watermelon and remove flesh from rind. Cut flesh into pieces as close to ¼" thickness as you can. Remove seeds if possible.

  2. Place on lined dehydrator trays and dehydrate at 135 degrees for ten forevers, or 18-24 hours, or until watermelon jerky is sufficiently dry and breaks when you bend it.

  3. Store in airtight container.

 

Movie Suggestions

The Spy Who Dumped Meempty, dark movie theater with light shining on red seats

“Audrey (Mila Kunis) and Morgan (Kate McKinnon), two thirty-year-old best friends in Los Angeles, are thrust unexpectedly into an international conspiracy when Audrey’s ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail. Surprising even themselves, the duo jump into action, on the run throughout Europe from assassins and a suspicious-but-charming British agent, as they hatch a plan to save the world.”

 

Animal Crackers

“A workaholic dad, stuck in a nowhere job, inherits a rundown circus from a distant relative he hardly knew. On the brink of losing his job, his house, and his sanity… he uncovers a magical box of Animal Crackers that gives him the uncanny ability to become any animal from the box.”

Book Suggestions

What are you reading this month? Check out our top pick below:

Annihilation

“Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.

 

“This is the twelfth expedition.

 

“Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

 

“They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them, and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another, that change everything.”