It’s fall on the Outer Banks and the next few weeks will provide some of the best fishing of the year. Blues, drum, specks, and stripers will be cruising the beaches so get ready to rumble. A bitter cold snap slowed the action during mid-week, but as the weather improved, so did the fishing. Surf anglers were beaching sea mullet, drum – big and small, some specks and lots of sharks. … [Read more...]
Brown Bag Tomatoes
It killed me last week to have to go out to my garden and pick unripe tomatoes from perfectly good vines. I did it because of a frost warning that night, and the weatherman was right. It was a helluva frost. The next morning, my vines were toast, but boy I had a great crop of tomatoes this year. To extend my fresh-eating of tomatoes, I put about 40 of the unripe tomatoes in a couple of brown … [Read more...]
Up In Smoke
In the 1940’s, 50’s, 60’s and well into the 70’s, Americans smoked. A lot. It was almost assumed that a person of age would take up smoking. It was the thing to do, even though everyone knew – even without a warning from the Surgeon General – that smoking was bad for you. “Don’t smoke. It will stunt your growth,†our parents said. Then they would light up. Yet, Boomers … [Read more...]
Lamps, Lamps and More Lamps
By Nancy B We just had a visit from our nephew and his wife. Steph had never been to our home and was admiring our back yard. I wish she could have seen it a couple of months ago when our yard was in full bloom but now the beautiful blooms are gone and covered in beautiful leaves; many, many leaves that is. Fall has a way of doing that. Fall and winter also has a way of making the … [Read more...]
Interesting Products at Food Lion
I used to drive by the Food Lion in Greene County on my way home from work and stopped in often for groceries. But since we closed Lights Out, I rarely go out of my way to shop at a Food Lion, even though I have always enjoyed their products. Last week, I passed by the one near the old Toys R Us and stopped in for a few items. I needed some ham for lunch meats and saw a product called Frick’s … [Read more...]
Welcome Back Snowbirds
They left last year around mid-March, and like clockwork, they returned in early November. My snowbirds are back. Each year I have a small flock of snowbirds, Dark-Eyed Juncos if you will. The 10 or 12 birds shelter in our thick bushes, making occasional and regular darts beneath our feeder to scratch for dislodged seeds. Rarely do I ever see them at the feeder, only below. Snowbirds spend … [Read more...]
Return to The Oyster Festival
We spent a picture-perfect November weekend last week at the Oyster Festival in Urbanna. The cottage we have rented on Urbanna Creek for the last 15 or so years was no longer available, but we booked a cottage on Jackson Creek in Deltaville and made the 20-mile drive to and from. The views of the sunrise on the creek with the sailboats bobbing in the water, by the way, were beyond … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Cookies
It’s fall, you know, the time we all turn into pumpkins. Whether we’re carving pumpkins for the front porch or baking them into pies. Pumpkins are a hot item. Recently, I became so enamored with the large, orange spheres, that I made a batch of pumpkin cookies and they turned out well - a nice change of pace in the cookie department. And they’re easy to put together. Here’s how. In … [Read more...]
Hunting Virginia Elk
(This 8x8 bull weighed 755 pounds) By Jackie Rosenberger/DWR It’s hard to believe another year has passed and Virginia’s second managed elk hunt, held the third week of October, has ended. This hunt was another huge success thanks to an army of landowners, volunteers, Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) staff, and an awesome cohort of hunters. Each hunter … [Read more...]
Fall on the Outer Banks
It’s fall on the Outer Banks and the next few weeks will provide some of the best fishing of the year. Blues, drum, specks, and stripers will be cruising the beaches so get ready to rumble. A bitter cold snap slowed the action during mid-week, but as the weather improved, so did the fishing. Surf anglers were beaching sea mullet, drum – big and small, some specks and lots of sharks. … [Read more...]
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