I don’t eat enough oatmeal. Some doctors say that if you eat oatmeal every morning for breakfast, you might live forever. It’s healthy stuff. I will, however, eat oatmeal cookies. How many ever oatmeal cookies you give me are how many I will eat, especially with a glass of cold milk. Oatmeal is an interesting and varied product. Mr. Wiki says that oatmeal is a preparation of oats that have … [Read more...]
Viceroy, Monarchs and Other Butterflies
We have had a few monarch butterflies visiting our nectar-laden plants and bushes this summer. Last year, I don’t recall seeing any, though we have butterfly bushes and pollinator attractors as well as milkweed necessary for the monarch larva. We have enjoyed seeing other butterflies, however, including lots of orange ones in recent weeks. I believe most of the orange butterflies visiting our yard … [Read more...]
Signs of Our Times
The Impossible Dream
I have a dream that is likely never to come true. It’s an impossible dream that one day I would be able to take a handful of ice cubes from the refrigerator without having at least one escape and go sliding across the kitchen floor. Yesterday, it almost came true. I only dropped one cube. Our refrigerator has an internal automatic ice maker, and it works to perfection, keeping our ice tray … [Read more...]
The Violin Panhandler
Charlottesville has emerged as one of the top cities in the country for beggars. On nearly every major corner and intersection, there is a panhandler with a cardboard sign saying, “Homeless. Anything helps. God bless.” It must be working because they are at it every day. One guy on the corner near Kroger’s Rio Hill should be paying rent. Flanking the healthy looking 35-year-old were multiple … [Read more...]
Conservation Mowing?
We live in Woodbrook, abutting the school yard. A month or so ago, whoever mowed the school grounds left several acres unmowed and erected signs saying, “Conservation Mowing.” They were letting the grass grow to somehow benefit wildlife. That’s total rubbish. The grass they have allowed to grow is knee high fescue, which actually is a detriment to wildlife habitat. It’s the single reason that … [Read more...]
October Doormats
October is here, and with it comes a change in the fishing scene. Some of the summer fish start to leave, the waterways become less crowded, and the fish become more active. It’s a wonderful time of the year to be on the water, weather permitting. Flounder fishing in the Bay is winding down, but Captain Craig Paige still managed to land a couple of citation-sized flounders on a recent … [Read more...]
TV’s, Old and New
I was watching a football game on TV recently when I realized that the picture was so vividly clear, I thought I could have been sitting in the stands. We have a nice TV, but nothing special, yet the picture is brilliant. Most al of them are today. What a change from our first TV! I remember the day that my brother Pat and I waited and watched for the Appliance Store’s truck to pull in the … [Read more...]
Cooking Toads
Just a hunch, but I doubt many of my Cville Buzz readers will be cooking up a batch of “toads” anytime soon. But if you ever get the chance, don’t pass it by. By “toads”, I am referring to Puffer Fish or Blow Fish, commonly called “toads” by the locals. Puffers happen to be an ocean delicacy. We had some last week and they were delicious. The local seafood market in Deltaville had them on … [Read more...]
Remembering Harvey Shifflett
By Sherman Shifflett Ed. Note: My late friend, Sherman Shifflett, was writing a book about his father, Harvey Shifflett, but was never able to finish it. Below are some excerpts he sent me several years ago. As you can tell, it would have been a great book. Dad kept an inordinate number of roosters. One day mom asked him why he kept so many roosters. He replied, "I don't … [Read more...]
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