Someone asked me recently if I had a Venmo account. They said they no longer used traditional checks and would deposit the money they owed for groceries from their bank into my Venmo account. Venmo? You mean Venom, like snake venom? No, they meant Venmo, a way to accept payment from an individual for anything from splitting a check at a restaurant to buying a used lawnmower. So, … [Read more...]
Mystery Solved
With the help of several Cville Buzz readers, the mystery has been solved. The unidentified birds in my yard have been identified. The two, stocky gray birds I could not find in my bird books are juvenile Brown-headed Cowbirds. The reason they were so hard to identify is that they were young birds and looked nothing like their parents pictured in books. I had a feeling they were … [Read more...]
Lola’s Farmhouse Bistro
(Ava Pippin at Lola’s Farmhouse Bistro) By Sherman Shifflett Generally, I ask my good friend, Ava Pippin, where she wants to eat on her birthday. For the last 12 or 14 years, she has requested Lowery's Seafood Restaurant in Tappahannock. It's nearly a two-hour drive from Louisa. From Lowery's, she had to travel another hour to Fredericksburg for … [Read more...]
Citizen Burger Bar
I don’t like to go to Downtown Charlottesville. It’s no longer Historic Charlottesville, it is now Politically Correct Charlottesville. I go only if the Charlottesville Band or a good show is playing at the Paramount. And it’s too bad, because one of Charlottesville’s best burger restaurants is on the Downtown Mall, and that’s Citizen Burger Bar. We ate there not long ago, and their … [Read more...]
Mexican Lasagna
Everybody likes Lasagna and most everybody enjoys good Tex/Mex food, so how about Mexican Lasagna? I made a batch this week and it was delicious. You can really create your own version of Mexican Lasagna by including the types of foods you like in your Burritos and Tacos, and that’s what I did. I encourage everyone to use their imaginations and go with what they like, but here’s my … [Read more...]
Jumbo Sheepshead
Some giant sheepshead are being caught now along the CBBT. Shawn Sawyer from Virginia Beach hooked one pushing 20 pounds. Sheepshead are a mysterious fish. They have the unique ability to snatch a bait from a hook. Some say that to catch a sheepshead, you have to set the hook just before he bites. They are powerful fish, in the drum family, and they are prized as table fare. The … [Read more...]
Reading, ‘Riting and ‘Rithmetic
The three R’s. That’s what we Boomers learned in school. We read lots of American history, and in our books, Americans were always the good guys. Nathan Hale, Paul Revere, George Washington, Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson were heroes. In literature, we read the classics when there was no such thing as a book being politically correct. We learned to add, subtract, multiply and divide without a … [Read more...]
Easy Oven Wings
I really enjoy Chicken Wings, though I find them ridiculously overpriced. If a chicken could grow 4 wings instead of two, it would solve the problem. But because of the huge demand for Chicken Wings at Sports Bars and Super Bowl parties, the price per pound for wings is awfully high. Still, they’re worth it. It’s really hard to screw up chicken wings in a recipe, but for me, it’s been hard to … [Read more...]
Early Girl Hybrid: Remember That Name
Early this spring, my wife Nancy bought a little seed planting kit from Ferry- Morse. It was a Smart Start kit with 8 tomato seeds in capsule form. “Water and grow” were the instructions. Of the 8 capsules, 4 managed to sprout and two finally made it to plant hood. One that did has been keeping us in fresh tomatoes. We get two or three each day and have been for a couple weeks. It is doing so … [Read more...]
Still Unidentified
We have had many bird visitors in our yard, some just passing through, but to date, I’ve been able to identify each one. That is until two weeks ago, when a medium sized gray bird showed up at our sunflower heart feeder, then another. And they have stuck around and I have no clue what they might be. And my Cville Buzz readers have been no help. Someone suggested it was female house … [Read more...]
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