Look in the medicine cabinet of a modern family and you’ll find Neosporin and other balms and creams to treat wounds. No pain, just soothing comfort to treat a “boo-boo” on a child. But remembering back when Boomers were growing up, there were three medicines used to torture children – Iodine, Mercurochrome and Methylate. It’s hard to rate these three liquids from Satan in terms of … [Read more...]
Corn Maze and Pumpkins
If you find yourself with nothing to do on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon, buckle up the kids and head for Liberty Mills Farm in Somerset and explore the largest corn Maze in Virginia. While you’re at it, take a wheelbarrow out into the pumpkin patch and hand select a big, fat pumpkin for Halloween. This year, Liberty Mills has 12 miles of paths and has designed four trails … [Read more...]
Million-Dollar Spaghetti
Spaghetti is hard to beat. It’s easy to cook and everybody loves it. My only gripe with spaghetti is that every time I eat it, I gain weight. But how can you have just a little portion of spaghetti? I saw a recipe recently that looked interesting. They called it Million Dollar Spaghetti. I don’t know if it’s worth a million dollars, but it is both easy and delicious – almost a cross … [Read more...]
Humming Along
Sometime last week, they took off. For months, they have been buzzing around out backyard flowers and our two feeders, but it was time to leave. Our resident hummingbirds are headed to Mexico. What interesting and beautiful creatures are these tiny birds. Hummingbirds live throughout North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean Islands. They seek out habitat … [Read more...]
More Anaheim Peppers for the Future
I bought a single Anaheim pepper plant from the Corner Store Nursery this spring. One of my other transplanted pepper plants died and I needed something to replace it. I had never heard of an Anaheim pepper, but the tag said it was a “hot” pepper and several in my family enjoy hot peppers. So, I decided to give it a try. It turns out that the pepper was not hot at all, at least when … [Read more...]
Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers
Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers are so good that the local Emmet Street location has been grinding traffic to a halt on US 29. Cars waiting to drive through and order are backed up nearly to the stoplight at Hydraulic Road. There are sure a lot of “Caniacs” out there. For many, there is only one Fried Chicken Finger, and that comes from Raising Canes Chicken Fingers - and what a … [Read more...]
Striper Time
Virginia’s rockfish season opened October 4th and will remain open until December 31. Anglers are catching them around bridge pilings, piers and under lights at night. Regulations allow one fish per angler per day with a 20-inch minimum and a 36-inch maximum length. Ocean charters are still successfully targeting Spanish mackerel and king mackerel. Some nice smoker kings were recently … [Read more...]
Squeezing Coins
During the World War II, rubber and plastics were simply not available to consumers. But after the war, things changed. Needing to keep assembly lines open, manufacturers developed tens of thousands of new rubber, plastic, and fiberglass products. Among them was the rubber squeeze change purse. Every Boomer kid had one. It’s where we put the 10 cents for admission to the movies. It’s … [Read more...]
Great Venison BBQ
My late friend Bev Kokatos loved Venison BBQ. Back when I owned Jim’s Fly & Tackle, we would occasionally put a venison roast in a crock pot and dish out sandwiches for our customers. One day, Bev stopped by for something and smelled the BBQ and asked what I was cooking. I gave her a sandwich and she was smitten. She said anytime I ever cooked BBQ to call her, she was quite taken … [Read more...]
Dwarf Okra?
I bought dwarf okra seeds last spring because I was tired of trying to fetch ripe okra pods that had grown to Jack and the Beanstalk heights. It would be nice, I thought, to actually bend down and pick the delicious okra pods. Bend down my rear end. All seven of Snow White’s Dwarfs could stand on each other’s shoulders and still not be able to reach the top blooms. My dwarf okra … [Read more...]
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