Last Sunday during a torrential downpour, I saw Wrenfield pecking away on the window ledge. He had found a juicy spider. Wrenfield is my resident Carolina Wren. He, or one of his ancestors, has called our yard home every year we’ve been living at 214 Brentwood Road. While we’ve only lived in one house for the last 47 years, Wrenfield has had many houses – sometimes in a water bucket, sometimes … [Read more...]
Pork Ribeye Roast
Grumble, gripe, bitch, moan. That’s me going through the meat department at most grocery stores. That’s because it’s always the same-old, same old, especially when it comes to pork. They no longer have real butchers in the back room. They are basically meat sorters. Shipments of pre-wrapped pork and beef now come from the big butcher in the sky, who also determines which cuts of meat and … [Read more...]
Bonefish Grill: Consistently Excellent
We’ve eaten out a half dozen or so times since Covid shut down our way of life, but it’s a little ironic. A restaurant these days is one of the safest places in the world. They do this 6-foot thing to an extreme and everything is routinely sterilized, including the wait staff. Well, not really, but they wear masks and gloves that would keep any germ at bay, and they are extremely conscientious … [Read more...]
Warm Spell Triggers the Bass Bite
The warm spell we had last week stimulated the bass fishing. Warm afternoons pushed bass up on the flats. Lake Anna is now a hotspot for bass, stripes and crappie. Stripers are eating lures from the Splits on up into the rivers. Bait is starting to bunch in tight schools. A nice bag of bass weighing over 19-pounds won a weekend tournament out of Sturgeon Creek Marina. After a 3-inch … [Read more...]
November 11th: A Special Day
November 11th, Veterans’ Day, has come and gone, but there was a time when November 11th was my favorite day of the year. More so than Christmas, more than Thanksgiving, even more than my birthday was November 11th - Veteran’s Day. Veteran’s Day was always a special day for me because my father, James E. Brewer, was a veteran who lost his life in WW II. My step-dad, Daddy George, was also a … [Read more...]
For the Birds
I like to feed and watch the birds and I’m not alone. There are about 60-million of us according to a recent survey. In fact, the overall market for wild bird products is projected to reach $2.2. billion by 2021. That’s a lot of birdseed. This cursed Covid mess has actually stimulated bird feeding and watching. Compared to tending and caring for household pets, it’s relatively inexpensive and … [Read more...]
It’s In The Bag
Last Christmas, my granddaughter Berkley - who knows how much I love to go to the grocery store - gave me three shopping bags from Harris Teeter, heavy duty bags with straps. It was perfect timing because I had just opened the back of my Jeep and had a cantaloupe escape from one of the plastic bags and go rolling down the driveway. I despise those plastic bags, but in some stores, that’s all they … [Read more...]
The Banner Sausage Caper
I began camping with a group of guys in the fall of 1980. Every spring and fall since then, we have reassembled, celebrating our 40th anniversary this October. On the initial camping trip to the Cranberry River in West Virginia, one of my campmates, George Gillespie - who was observing as I cooked breakfast - said that he would bring some Banner Sausage on the next trip and cook it. … [Read more...]
Springing Onions
I harvested a few spring onions from my garden this week. What a treat. Spring onions, or green onions, are an accommodating vegetable. If you don’t pick them in spring, they sort of wither up in the heat of the summer and disappear. But then, when the cool evenings and gentle rains of September arrive, the onions are back up and at ‘em - as were my leftover onions from my spring garden. Green … [Read more...]
Snowbirds: Right on Time
Like clockwork, the snowbirds have returned. Last year it was mid-November when I saw my little flock of snowbirds show up. This year it was Tuesday morning, November 17 when I saw the little gray fellows pecking away at some scattered seeds on the ground. The friendly little songbirds had been missing in action since March, when things started to warm. Then, they headed for Canada to spend the … [Read more...]
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