Nancy wanted some more oatmeal. She eats it often for breakfast, so I bought her a box when I went to the store. Except, I bought old fashioned oats – the original whole grain variety and she likes the oatmeal you can cook in a couple minutes. So, I went back and bought what she wanted, but now I was the proud owner of a box of Old-Fashioned Oats, and I eat eggs for breakfast. I probably should … [Read more...]
The Best Meal in Town
Okay, Brewer. It’s your last meal. We caught you pulling the tags off two bed pillows without authorization and the warden’s going to throw the switch in the morning. What do you want to eat, and it has to be from a restaurant in Charlottesville? But those tags were sticking out of the pillowcase, and they were from My Pillows.com! And I used the Promo Code! It doesn’t … [Read more...]
Happy 2023
By Nancy B Saying farewell to 2022 and filled with hope for 2023 makes my heart sing. Yes, we’ll have some challenges, maybe disappointments, but also the excitement of new adventures and anticipations of great things is on the horizon. Industry experts anticipate a year of calming hues and warm neutrals which sounds nice, wouldn’t you agree? Sherwin Williams, Behr, and Benjamin … [Read more...]
All Quiet on the Bay Front
It’s pretty quiet out there on the Chesapeake Bay. Lots of fish have migrated into the ocean, but they’ll return when the spring sun warms things up. In the meantime, most of what little fishing is being done is for catch and release rock-fishing. Live eels are working best for the big fellas, lots in the 40pound class. Tautogs are biting – it seems they always bite. But not many are … [Read more...]
Plastic Containers – Down the Tubes
We recycled stuff in the old days - old like in the 1950s. Coming out of the war years where almost everything was rationed, Boomers took bottles back to the stores, we wore hand-me-downs to school, we used cotton diapers over and over and we saved aluminum foil for more than one use. I remember distinctly a TV commercial when a new product - I think it was margarine of some sort – … [Read more...]
It’s Seed Time
The seasons have changed. The Christmas displays are down at Wal-Mart and in their place are 50-foot racks of seeds. It won’t be long. This is the time of year when my thoughts turn to the garden, hoping the tomatoes will behave and the cucumbers will be plentiful, and praying that the squash borers will take a year off and that rain will come, but not all at once. About the only … [Read more...]
Signs of The Times
Jamaica, Mon’
Nancy and I have been married a long time. Claudius was Emperor of Rome when we tied the knot. We have long passed the Gold and Diamond Anniversaries and are now in the Moon Rocks of Venus category – and Andrew Minton Jewelry has sold out of Venusian Moon Rock Rings. So, for this year’s anniversary we’re going to Jamaica, Mon’. I didn’t know much about Jamaica except it’s warm, even … [Read more...]
Bluebird Candy
I have discovered bluebird candy. Well, not actually candy, but my little blue feathered friends eat it like a bag of Tootsie Rolls and Reese’s Cups on a Halloween night. My daughter, Angelin, knowing that I love bluebirds, gave me a bag of Birdacious Bark Butter Bits for Christmas. At first skeptical, I put a cupful in my open end, glass bowl bird feeder and the blues were on it like … [Read more...]
Laying Golden Eggs
Remember the old Aesop’s Fable, “The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs”? To refresh your memory, there was once a goose that laid a solid gold egg every day for a peasant man and his wife, which made them quite wealthy. But the couple got greedy and killed the goose to get all the eggs inside at once. There were none, of course, and now the Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs was dead. If … [Read more...]
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