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...]
Finally: Blooms on Our Water Lilies
Claude Monet was quite taken with water lilies. The French Impressionist of the late 19th and early 20th century, brushed some 250 canvases with his splendid oils depicting the water lilies in his flower garden in Giverny. At long last, our little garden pond is now blessed with a blooming lily and to behold this magnificent flower, you can see why Monet was so obsessed with these … [Read more...]
Five Guys: One of Cville’s Best Burgers
I had heard about Five Guys, that they made great burgers, and I stopped by their restaurant at Holllymead Town Center when they first opened. I was pretty hungry and ordered two “regular” cheeseburgers and some fries. They brought me two giant, double cheeseburgers - it was a half of a steer and two counties worth of French Fries from Idaho. I couldn’t eat it all. Not only does Five Guys give you … [Read more...]
Band News
The Charlottesville Band (new name for the Charlottesville Municipal Band) is at it again. Coming off a year of Co-Vid inactivity, the Band will continue in its 99th Season Summer Concert Series with a performance at The Center at Belvedere, located at 540 Belvedere Boulevard off Rio Road near Dunlora on August 3 at 7:30 PM. . It will be Charlottesville Band’s first performance at one of … [Read more...]
Jacks are Wild
Jacks are wild, amberjacks that is. They go wild at the end of a fishing rod. No fish alive - pound for pound - fights harder, and they are fighting fishermen right now from the wrecks off Nags Head to the towers along the Virginia Coast. The Brewer Family, Jimmie, James and Virginia (my son, grandson and granddaughter), tried their luck with amberjacks while fishing with Ace Captain Reese … [Read more...]
Packing Heat in Junior High
We had genuine marksmen in Lewisburg Junior High in 1956. Sharpshooters, you night say. As I would quickly discover, if you didn’t pack heat in self-defense, you would get squirted. Squirt guns, you see, were the weapons of choice among the young people in the mid-50s. Before class, during class and after class, you could hear triggers squeezing off shots, pelting other students with a spray of … [Read more...]
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