By Dr. Peter Brookes I’m always up for a challenge and decided to try for a Virginia Bass Slam. The Bass Slam requires the angler to net three species of Virginia bass in a year. The eligible fish include the largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, striped bass, and/or a hybrid striped bass. While a full year is allotted for completing the Virginia Bass Slam Challenge, netting three bass … [Read more...]
Eating TV Dinners!
By the mid-50s, some of the novelty had worn off for televisions, but with rumors of color televisions and vastly improved programming, TVs were still an important part of family life. Gathering around the set for a family meal featuring genuine TV dinners was a highlight. In 1954, the Swanson Food Company changed the way Americans ate their meals. Prior to that date, families ate at the … [Read more...]
Scare(y) Crows
All birds molt, meaning they grow new feathers, sort of like we are always growing new skin. Some birds lose a few feathers at a time, and you hardly notice. Then, there are the cardinals that lose big chunks of feathers around their heads and look like something out of a Spielberg movie. But recently, I noticed that my small group of crows, usually three, also have feather … [Read more...]
Some Like it Hot
I have found that there are two vegetables that like hot weather – okra and peppers. If you plant either one in early May, they often sit there and sulk, biding their time, waiting for hot weather, then they take off if you give them a bit of water. Nancy had several pepper plants in her above-ground garden and one plant grew like a weed, but no blooms and no peppers. It was four feet high, … [Read more...]
Signs of Our Times
The Wing Thing
I believe I’ve got the “wing thing” down pat – wings as in chicken wings baked in the oven, not fried. I’ve tried probably a dozen recipes and the one below is tried and true – a keeper. I enjoy wings, even though they are probably more expensive – pound for pound – than a rib eye steak. They sell for just under $4 a pound, and you probably only get a third of that in meat. But they are tasty, … [Read more...]
Lighting Inspiration and Cleaning Tips
By Nancy B Our showroom is a lovely place to visit and shop for lighting inspiration, with lights of all kinds on display. Often, it takes seeing fixtures in person to get excited about them. However, our website (Nancybshouseoflights.com) can show you our offering of hundreds of fixtures whereas our showroom holds far less. It would take at least 20 of our showrooms to display all that we … [Read more...]
Please Don’t Go!
Say it ain’t so, Spanish mackerel. Tell us you’ll stay a little longer! What a great season it’s been for Spanish mackerel. They came early and in good numbers, then the big boys moved in - 4 and 5 pounders. But now, it’s almost time to say goodbye as the sleek fish begin to move out to sea. They were caught in huge numbers this week off the coast of Virginia Beach. Clark spoons did the … [Read more...]
Huge Catfish Caught on a Kiddie Rod
I used to do fishing classes for beginners and one thing I always emphasized was to buy good equipment and stay away from those cheap Zebco Combos – like the kids’ Mickey Mouse Rods. I might have been wrong. On July 21, West Virginia’s Tyler Rutherford took his family fishing at a local farm pond. He put a worm on the hook of his three-year old daughter’s pink Zebco equipped with 6-pound … [Read more...]
A Fair(ly) Nice Snake
Nancy and I took a trip across the mountains to the West Virginia State Fair last Sunday where we ate everything in sight – starting with Country Ham Sandwiches, followed by Pepperoni Pizza and piping hot Ben Ellen doughnuts, plus Corn Dogs and Hot Fudge Sundaes. Groan! But we saw pigs and lambs and Angus steers. We viewed all the vegetables and pies with blue ribbons, we visited the Butterfly … [Read more...]
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