During the course of the life of an average man there comes a time when he takes complete leave of his senses and does incredibly stupid things – like go camping. After rising to the top of the food chain and having access to things like heat pumps, wide screen TVs and multiple jet showers, some average men deem it desirable to forego the pleasantries of life and live among a cluster of … [Read more...]
The Masters Resolutions
Everybody makes New Year’s Resolutions, usually on New Year’s Eve, but rarely kept. I make Masters resolutions, right before The Masters Golf Tournament in April. Since they didn’t have The Masters in April last year, it really screwed up my golf game. I had an awful year. Come to think of it, most of the years I play golf are awful, but I digress. Each year, I try to make a resolution that … [Read more...]
Cage Free Vegetables
Cage free eggs are all the rage these days. A kind and caring human wants to make sure all those little eggs are not under any stress and have been treated kindly. Otherwise, they might do a Humpty Dumpty and throw themselves off a wall or something. Most vegetables are also cage free – happy little vegetables grown in the wide open spaces – free to roam as they will. But not my … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Cream Pie
Sound good? It is. And it’s fairly easy. Most everyone likes pumpkin pie, a staple at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Recently, I have made some cream pies and thought pumpkin cream might work. It did. Here’s how. For starters, do a graham cracker crust and make it yourself. The store-bought graham cracker crusts are certainly easy, but they don’t quite measure up. It’s really easy to make … [Read more...]
Two Hawks and a Mockingbird
I looked out the kitchen window and there sat a hawk. A big hawk. Wait, there was another. Two huge Red-tailed hawks were sunning themselves on a limb overlooking our goldfish pond, not thirty feet away. My natural inclination was to step outside and shoo the hawks away, but I noticed some songbirds feeding on the ground in the back of the yard, and they didn’t seemed concerned. Since … [Read more...]
Rhett’s is Back
Rhett’s Bar & Grill is now open in their new Spring Creek location and is once again dishing out great food.Cville Buzz contributor, Sherman Shifflett, was assigned to take Ava Pippin out to eat there and give a full report. His report below was very good. Many remember dining at Rhett’s on Rt 29N in Charlottesville, VA, near the Rivanna River. My clan enjoyed many meals there, … [Read more...]
A Stable Deer Harvest
I remember back in 1987 when the deer harvest first exceeded 100,000 animals. I thought at the time that the Game Department had lost their collective minds. Their regulations were far too liberal. Too many deer killed would decimate populations. Boy was I wrong about that. The very next year, the deer kill jumped to about 120,000. In 1990, that figure increased to over 160,000 and in 1992, the … [Read more...]
Quiet! Whale Sleeping!
The Tuna Duck set sail out of Hatteras this Wednesday, hoping to find some bluefin tuna. No luck with the tuna, unfortunately, but the boat did happen upon a whale taking a nap in the ocean’s surface. That’s where they sleep, you know. Whales breathe air and they sleep in the surface – and so it was for this tired mammal. On Monday, the Tuna Duck had better luck with the fish. Mahi were biting … [Read more...]
The Electronically Challenged
For Boomers, it all began with the remote control for the television set: The coming of the age of electronics. A world of tweets and twitters, of Google and Yahoo. Before this strange new world of gizmos, a mouse pad was just a place where a mouse lived. Memory was something that was lost with age. A cursor was somebody who used profanity and a hard drive was a really long trip. Before the age … [Read more...]
Seeds for Sale
I was ten years old and lived in Beckley, WV. Kids had subscriptions to comic books back then and on one splendid day in February, my monthly issue of Superman arrived. Quickly, I scanned the pages, then read and reread the magazine. In the back of the comic book, however, I noticed an ad to win special prizes. One of the prizes was a long bow, a paper target and three steel pointed arrows. I was … [Read more...]
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