I saw a penny in the parking lot last week and stopped and picked it up. Most people won’t. A penny is looked upon as a nuisance coin. People drop excess pennies in a dish beside the cash register these days rather than fool with them. Afterall, there is not much you can do with a single penny. Boomers, though, can remember back when a mere penny bought tons of pure joy. Those were the days of … [Read more...]
A Perfect Breakfast
It dawned on me last Sunday that I may have been eating the Perfect Breakfast. So what exactly is this Perfect Breakfast, you ask? Two slices of thick, crispy bacon; two buttermilk biscuits oozing with real butter; a bowl of hot grits, also oozing with fresh butter; a slice of Golden Honeydew Melon; a glass of tomato juice; and two fried eggs, sunny-side up. That is obviously a very good … [Read more...]
Lexington-Style Slaw
Lexington barbeque. Maybe the best there is. Made in the Carolina barbeque capital, Lexington, NC, barbecue from the world famous Lexington Barbeque Restaurant is simply unequalled. Ditto, their coleslaw. Lexington- Style slaw differs from all its other rivals in that it’s red, not white. Some call it red slaw. I call it damned good and I made some recently. If you like barbeque, this is … [Read more...]
In White Peach Heaven
For 11 months a year, we are forced to buy fresh peaches that are anything but. They are likely imports from Mexico or South America that were picked months in advance and stored in cold lockers. These alien peaches are as hard as rocks and tasteless. But now, fellow peach aficionados, our time has come. The white peaches are in season and many local and regional orchards are bringing … [Read more...]
Pond Update
What would an issue of CvilleBuzz be without an update on the pond in our backyard? That would be like the NY Times omitting its Op Ed page. But to tell you the truth, I don’t know what we would have done for entertainment for the past few months were it not for our fascinating goldfish pond beside our patio. Afterall, you can’t go to the movies or plays or concerts. Fortunately, our little Golden … [Read more...]
A Beautiful Butterfly Weed
One of our most prized plantings this year is a gorgeous Butterflyweed. This spring, Nancy picked a half dozen small seeds from a Butterflyweed pod. She started them inside and nurtured them into small plants. When she brought them outside, she knew the damned squirrels would get in them and dig them up so she put a heavy wire guard around them with a top to keep the squirrels from climbing … [Read more...]
Mockingbird Visits
We’ve lived in our house over 45 years and there has always been one mockingbird that visits. Usually, they have nested in thick bushes in our neighbor’s yard and stop by our place only for a sip of water or when the blueberries and blackberries ripen. I feed all my other birds, but I’ve never been able to draw the local mockingbirds to my feeders, until a few weeks ago. I wrote recently about … [Read more...]
Virginia Beach Doormats
August is typically the time when big flounder start showing up at the weighing scales. The big boys, however, are generally caught in deeper water near wrecks and structure. This week, lots and lots of 4 to 6 pound flatties were netted near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel and The Cell, but a monster 12 pounder was landed by Capt. Brandon Cook out of Virginia Beach. Hurry down, the action is … [Read more...]
Curb Service
How do young people meet these days? Kids don’t have weekend dances. There are there no more drive-in movies and there are no drive-in restaurants to speak of. The malls are dead zones. And young people would practically need a second mortgage to pay for a movie date – when there are movies. But Baby Boomers look back nostalgically at the days when a young lady called a carhop would take your … [Read more...]
Mexican Pasta Salad
What, exactly, do Mexicans eat as a side with their Tacos or Burritos besides corn chips and salsa? Refried Beans? That’s not a side, that’s dog food. But since I have been doing more and more Mexican cooking – I actually like these spicy dishes – I have been searching for a decent and consistent “side” for a Mexican entree. I think I found a good one recently. I tried my hand at a … [Read more...]
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