Last week I wrote about Winter Cardinals and how majestic they were – a vivid cardinal red against the backdrop of white snow. Charles Crenshaw sent me a picture of a white cardinal, another beauty. I have never before seen a white cardinal, or mostly white. Some might think it to be an albino, but the cardinal in the picture is not an albino because albino birds and animals are entirely … [Read more...]
Fire Pits and Dry Wood
Last summer and fall, Nancy and I bided our Covid-induced leisure time by sitting beside our goldfish pond sipping cocktails and watching the frogs and goldfish enjoy their new digs. But for the past 2 months, the frogs have vamoosed and our goldfish have migrated to the deep part of the pond and out of sight. That’s when we decided to spend our evenings beside the fire pit, or should I say the … [Read more...]
VSGA VIP
Fellow golfers. Spring will come, trust me on this. The snow will go away, the Masters will be in April, and things will soon be back to normal – or close to it. So make sure a pretty day doesn’t catch you off guard. Call or go online and renew you VSGA VIP Card for 2021. It’s the best deal in golf. I think we used our VIP Cards on 6 different courses in 2020. Having the nice. discount … [Read more...]
Lake Anna On Fire
It may be cold outside, but the bass fishing has been hot, hot, hot at Lake Anna. Recently, winning bags (5 fish) have weighed 22, 28 and 23 pounds. The big fish went 7-0, caught out of Sturgeon Creek. The clear water near the 208 Bridge has been very productive. Some hybrid stripers are also being landed at Anna. At Buggs Island, bass’n has been good in Nutbush because of clear water. … [Read more...]
Snow Days
We had lots of snow days when I was a boy, but it was just that - snowy. They didn’t cancel school. Unless the boiler broke down at Lewisburg Junior high School, we went to school, trudged through the snow 5 miles going and 10 miles coming home. Math was different back then. When the back, one-lane roads had drifts so high the buses couldn’t run, the country kids stayed home and had to make up … [Read more...]
The Good Witch
Thank heavens we have Hulu and access to Netflix and other channels. There is literally nothing on network TV (except The Good Doctor) and with social distancing the law of the land, there is not much to do except stay in and watch TV. Recently, we watched an episode of The Good Witch on Netflix. It was riveting, not at all like the old “Good Witch” episodes on the Hallmark Channel with all … [Read more...]
Bonart (Cigar) Candy
Every Christmas my son spoils me with a few hand-selected cigars from a high quality shop in Atlanta. These aren’t like my two-bit stogies, they are really good cigars. Each one is an experience to itself. Jimmie’s friend, the Cigar Meister, carefully selects a half dozen or so of some of his finest smokes and tucks them neatly in a wooden cigar box sprinkled with a few cigar leaves … [Read more...]
Winter Cardinals
There are two types of cardinals – the spring, summer and fall cardinals and they are beautiful. And then there are the winter cardinals and they are spectacular. I had 4 winter cardinals in my yard during the recent snowstorm. Of the dozens of birds at my various feeders, the winter cardinals simply exploded with beauty. The contrast between the cardinal-red feathers and the fresh, white snow was … [Read more...]
Fresh Salmon Cakes
I have been struggling to purge my mid-section of the extra inches that I have put on since Thanksgiving, with another boost over Christmas. I am almost there, but in order to get over the hump – or perhaps I should under the hump – fish was required. Lean, healthy fish meals, not deep-fried, artery-clogging fish (which tastes best). So I decided on salmon cakes. I like salmon cakes. I used to … [Read more...]
Lonely Golf Clubs
I keep my golf clubs on the back seat of my car. That’s because my wife Nancy doesn’t like it when I stand them in their bag in the living room and it’s too much work to take them down to the storage room after every round. So they stay in my back seat. And they are lonely. My loyal and lonely clubs have not had the opportunity to pop a drive high in the air and fall short of the ladies’ tees … [Read more...]
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