(An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail) By Andrea Naccarato/DWR Butterflies are fascinating creatures to observe in Virginia’s natural ecosystems, gardens, farms, and any other places where they can flutter from flower to flower. Within the Animal Kingdom, butterflies are considered a type of insect because they have three pairs of legs and an exoskeleton. Butterflies go through four … [Read more...]
Oven Fried Corn Flakes Chicken
I dearly love Fried Chicken. I would eat it once a week if I could, with leftovers the next day. But Nancy has been getting on me for “frying everything”. I don’t fry everything – cantaloupes, for example, but I bet they’d be good rolled in some flour and deep fried in Wesson Oil. So now I have to find an alternative to regular Fried Chicken and I did. It’s Oven Fried Corn Flakes … [Read more...]
Gardner’s Barbeque
A few years ago, as we were heading down I-95 on our way to Topsail Beach, NC, Nancy and I pulled off at the Dorches exit on Rt. 43 toward Rocky Mount. Our destination was Smith’s Red & White, one of the world’s great grocery stores. Smith’s packages many of their foods and vegetables and makes their own sausages and other delectable dishes. We loaded up with some groceries to take to the … [Read more...]
Fern Finches
I bought Nancy a couple potted plants to hang on the front porch. They were ferns and they were about seventeen bucks each – much higher than we used to pay, but they worked. After a couple attempts at getting the screw hook imbedded in the porch roof and a mending of the wire that held the heavy plants, all was well. Then, a couple weeks ago, it called for rain, so Nancy decided a little … [Read more...]
Here Come the Cobia
Just in time for Memorial Day Weekend, here come the cobia. For the past few weeks, cobia have been moving up the Carolina coast and now they’re here. The first schools have joined with red drum and will hit anything in sight - live eels, spot, menhaden, mullet, large spoons, white buck tails, plastic eels, swimming plugs or cut bait. They are hanging around buoys and other structure, … [Read more...]
Gift Wrapping and the Average Man
Four times a year, an average man is called upon to do something completely foreign, a task at which he is ill equipped. At Mother’s Day, on his Anniversary, at Christmas and on his wife’s birthday, the average man must gift-wrap presents. First, the average man must come up with the proper wrapping paper. Bat Man and Robin gift wrap paper, for example, is not considered appropriate to enclose … [Read more...]
Yellow Squash and Tomato Pie
I saw a recipe for a Zucchini Pie that sounded good as a side dish, but I didn’t have any zucchini squash - I had just bought some fresh yellow squash. So why not? I made a Yellow Squash and Tomato Pie that turned out delicious. Here’s how I went about it Chop up a cup and a half of yellow squash into half-inch cubes. Chop up two medium Roma tomatoes and ½ C sweet onion. Spread the ingredients … [Read more...]
Signs of our Times
The Organizer of the Jerry Seinfeld Protest Has Been Revealed … [Read more...]
Four Baby Blues
Our resident bluebirds pulled off a successful hatch a couple weeks ago. As usual, when the chicks fledged, they were immediately escorted by their parents to some tall trees behind out house – far away from blue jays, crows and squirrels that visit our yard. I never knew how many babies made it until this week. They are now reaching full size and there are four still alive and kicking. In all my … [Read more...]
Here Come the Cicadas
We were in Athens, GA last week for my Grandson’s graduation. Our family had rented a lake house from which to commute and as we finally arrived and were getting out of the car, we noticed quite a racket. “What’s that noise?” Nancy said. It sounded like a gazillion tree frogs, but it wasn’t. It was cicadas. They were everywhere – belly-up in the driveway, clinging to screen doors, crawling on … [Read more...]
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