I’m old enough to remember 3D comic books. I owned several and I sure wish I still had them. 3D comic books were a part of the Three Dimension Craze of the 1950s, spurred on by 3D movies. To see a 3D movie or read a 3D comic, you had to wear glasses with blue and red lenses which created an ocular illusion. It was a color manipulation that caused one eye to perceive one of the printed images … [Read more...]
In Love with Pistachio Nuts
If you rolled a wheelbarrow full of pistachio nuts up beside me and left me alone, I could eat the entire barrel full. Pistachio nuts are truly addictive. You put in a mountain of effort to eat just one. Sometimes they pop right out of the slightly open shell and sometimes you have to dig them out with a sharp molar. Sometimes, the shells are sealed shut and you need a hammer and chisel to … [Read more...]
Signs of Our Times
Wright’s: A Better Slice of Bacon
Every now and then I’ll splurge and buy a pound of Wright’s Bacon. It’s almost twice as expensive as some of the other top brands, but it’s the best. And it’s been the best since 1922. You don’t last over 100 years if you don’t do things “wright” and Wright does. The Eggleston family from Vernon, Texas thought that bacon should be thicker, richer and worth the wait of smoking and curing. They … [Read more...]
Garlic Butter Chicken with Stuffing
I hit on a good recipe recently; one that is simple, delicious and reasonably healthy. The recipe called for Garlic Butter Chicken Bites which I converted into Garlic Butter Chicken over Stuffing. This is a company-worthy dish that comes together quickly. The recipe called for bites, but I didn’t want bites. I found a good buy on 2-lbs. thin cut chicken breasts and cut them into smaller pieces … [Read more...]
Growing Onions and Lettuce
I am getting excited about getting my little vegetable garden underway - first, because it’s fun to see stuff grow, and second, the recent prices of some vegetables. Two things I regularly enjoy from the produce department are spring onions and fresh lettuce. Little clusters of onions have been selling s for 69-cents or so. They were $1.69 recently. We enjoy plucking young onion plants for the … [Read more...]
Lamps and More in 2026
By Nancy Brewer You asked and we listened. We so appreciate you, our customer, and your concerns and requests are important to us. We have lots of lamps in the shop and you have told us some are too small and others are too large. Just like Goldie Locks said, we need lamps that are “just right”. We now have the “just right” size lamps and they are darling, with lovely … [Read more...]
Fishing The Outer Banks
The sting of winter is petering out, and the fish bite is just getting started on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. If you are headed that way anytime this year and want to catch fish, all you need to know about fishing in and around Nags Head on the Outer Banks is the name of this web site – BeachBumFishing.com. This is the contact information for Capt. Reese Stecher, the best skipper on the … [Read more...]
Playing Hopscotch
It was a summer day on Jennings Street in Beckley, WV. The guys were trying to rustle up enough players for a baseball contest in our version of Yankee Stadium. We found 4 available boys, obviously not enough for a ball game, but there were 4 girls up the street playing hopscotch. I conferred with Carolyn Meadows, manager of the Hopscotch team and we came to terms. If the boys played a few games … [Read more...]
Our Robins are Loving Life
A day or two after the snow started melting and patches of the Albemarle County tundra appeared; the robins returned from Capistrano or from wherever they had been hanging out. Dozens – make that hundreds – of our red breasted friends swarmed in to take advantage of the worms and grubs which made their way towards the top of the ground. Worms head deep in the dry, hot summertime and fall, but … [Read more...]
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