When we were in Lexington, NC last week, I saw an Army/Navy store on Main Steet. It had a child’s shirt in the window. This wasn’t an Army/Navy Store like I remembered. As a boy growing up in Beckley, WV, one of my favorite places to visit when we went downtown was the Army/Navy store. In the 1950s, Army/Navy surplus stores experienced a massive boom following World War II and during … [Read more...]
Nancy’s Potato Garden
This spring, Nancy bought two large bags of garden soil and a couple red seed potatoes at the Crossroads Nursery. “This should be interesting,” I thought. Beside our carport, she placed one bag on top of the other after cutting the top from the lower bag and the bottom from the upper bag. Then, she cut 4 small holes in the top bag and put a couple slices of her seed potatoes – each with eyes – … [Read more...]
Poor Man’s Prime Rib
Have you priced a Standing Rib Roast recently? The sticker shock is almost enough to make you want to go Vegan. Many meat departments are now offering easy payment plans if you spring for a rib roast. Suffice it to say that they are expensive. Well, how about a Poor Man’s Rib Roast? Sounds better, doesn’t it? Probably most families have this recipe tucked away in their cookbooks, but it … [Read more...]
It’s Whack-a-Deer Season
On the drive back home from North Carolina last weekend, I counted 20 deer carcasses in or on the roadside. Who knows how many may have been just out of sight? The rut is on and it’s Whack-a-Deer Season with your automobile. During the rut or mating season of deer, the usually wary bucks throw caution to the wind if they sense a doe is in heat and the does run for their lives if they are not ready … [Read more...]
Bats Out Of…..
Poor old bats. Just because they suck blood and look like a Mini-Me Bela Lugosi, people don’t like them. Many are highly fearful of bats, while in fact, bats are among the neatest creatures on the planet. This being Halloween season and all, the Department of Wildlife Resources reminds us that this is Bat Week and CvilleBuzz is all over it. Here are some interesting bat facts according to the … [Read more...]
Public Fish & Oyster
By Nancy BrewerWow, yum, delicious, outstanding, incredible, and perfect are my words that described our dinner at Public Fish & Oyster. I had the pleasure of taking our son Jimmie and our daughter Laura to dinner and spending time with them. So many things were offered on the menu, but we decided to go with the Poseidon's Tower. It was beautiful and looked like a piece of art. The tower … [Read more...]
Lexington Barbeque Festival
Upwards of 200,000 barbeque lovers packed the streets of Lexington, NC this past Saturday to celebrate a lovey fall day and eat thousands of pounds of genuine Western-style North Carolina pork barbeque - and we were there. Nancy and I joined our daughter Angelin and her husband Brent and arrived early, parking right beside the entrance to the Main Street of downtown Lexington. We then ate our … [Read more...]
Night Time is the Right Time
Striper fishing in the tidal rivers and lower Bay is heating up with more and bigger fish being caught. Larger fish are being caught near bridges and docks under the lights.The specks are also biting with more regularity as water temps drop. Some huge spot have been caught at the mouth of the bay, including public fishing piers. But that bite won’t last long as the bottom fish such as spot, … [Read more...]
“Wunnerful, Wunnerful”
Any young people reading this article and the words “Wunnerful, Wunnerful”, will say… what is he talking about? But all of us old codgers will know that the magic words “Wunnerful, Wunnerful” meant that the Lawrence Welk Show was on the air. Lawrence Welk had born in a German speaking immigrant community in North Dakota. He didn’t learn English until he was 21, which led to that distinct, … [Read more...]
“Soul” Food
It’s funny how tastes remain with you for long periods of time. It seems like just last week that I was on a church picnic at Beaver Creek Lake just outside Beckley, WV. I was 9 or 10. Boy, what a spread those Beckley Presbyterian Church ladies set before us. Fried chicken, ham biscuits, yeast rolls, homemade pies and cakes, but the one thing I remember to this day were the pimento cheese … [Read more...]
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