Stan Cobb with Greentop says there’s not a lot happening on the saltwater front. There are, however, still plenty of rockfish available inside the bay for catch and release fishing. The best action has been between buoys 38 and 42, about a 25 mile run up the bay from Lynnhaven Inlet. Loads of really big fish are being caught on live eels. Ocean anglers are catching plenty of tautogs on wrecks … [Read more...]
A Nobel Laureate
I fully expect to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in the coming weeks. I wanted my readers at CvilleBuzz to be the first to know. I suppose I will accept the award, though there are probably others equally deserving. My discovery of a new state of matter is the reason for this honor. We were always told – throughout high school and even into college – that there are three … [Read more...]
Testing, Testing!
Every Boomer remembers test patterns. In the early days of television, each channel (usually one or two, that’s all we got) began the day and ended broadcasting with a test pattern on the screen. Most of us didn’t know what a test pattern was, really, or its purpose. All we knew that when the test pattern finally appeared (it took the tubes a while to warm up), there was nothing on the … [Read more...]
Smoked Kitchen and Tap
There is a new restaurant in town, in Crozet actually, and according to my golf buddy, Kevin Mann, it is worth a visit. Normally, I don’t do restaurant reviews on secondhand information, but Kevin is most reliable. Only once has he tried to putt my ball on the green since it was closer to the hole. Other than that, he is pretty solid. Kevin said that he ended up in Crozet at dinner … [Read more...]
Out With The Old, In With The New
By Nancy B Goodbye 2019. You were a good year and 2020 is going to be even better. We won’t be looking in the rearview mirror, instead we are looking forward and in the lighting world, it’s necessary. As I head to Dallas to the LightOvation Market, I look forward to the new designs, fashions and trends being offered. We always want our lighting fixtures on display to be … [Read more...]
Suet Time
My two suet feeders have been getting more and more attention since the weather got cold. They were quite popular this week with a few inches of snow on the ground and nothing much to eat except for my feeders and the seeds I scattered. I saw nuthatches, downy woodpeckers, red bellied woodpeckers, sparrows, chickadees, titmice and wrens squeezing in and out of the suet cages. Suet is … [Read more...]
Saying Southern Goodbyes
(Saw this in a recent e-mail. It’s worth sharing) Southerners never just stand up, say goodbye and leave. There is a process, a 9-step process, and it goes like this. “About to leave” warning “We’ve got to get going,” statement Hugs Walking to the driveway One more conversation in the driveway More hugs Talking while everyone’s piling in the … [Read more...]
Looking for LouAna
I did a piece on LouAna Vegetable Oil a few weeks back and I have since been casing the grocery stores, trying to track it down. The only store that carries it, as best I can tell, is Food Lion and they only carry it in the small, 16-ounce size. It’s a little pricey that way, but it is worth keeping in the pantry. If you compare LouAna to Wesson, Crisco and store brand oils, it is … [Read more...]
Winter Fishing Holes
There won’t be much happening on the fishing scene for a month or two, so rather than doing a lake-by-lake or river-by-river report, we’ll single out one of the better choices for some cold weather action. First up, the lower James River. I have always considered a catfish to be a summertime critter. Not so, for blue cats and not so on the lower James River in the Dutch Gap/Hopewell … [Read more...]
Put Your Housecoat On
Mama Ida worked for the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles in Raleigh for 40 years. She could look at a license plate number and tell which office and city it came from. Mama Ida was like a second mother to me. When my father was shot down in WWII, Mama Ida helped my young mother raise me and I always enjoyed spending as much time with her as I could. In the summer, when … [Read more...]
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