You eat well throughout the week, counting calories, nibbling on celery sticks and helpings of kale, and then you say – to hell with this – I want real food. That’s when Nancy and I get in the car and head for Riverside North. We order greasy cheeseburgers, onions rings and a basket full of French Fries. Next week, we’ll diet, but for now, we’re eating food as God intended. That happened to us … [Read more...]
Birds of A Feather
Our bird feeder filled with sunflower hears has been busier than the Kohrs Ice Cream Store on a “Nickel A Cone Day.” Birds of all shapes and sizes have been lined up, ready for their turn at the seeds. That’s because many of them have babies and the one seed baby birds can all eat and digest is a sunflower heart. Sunflower hearts as commercial bird seed are a fairly recent development, … [Read more...]
Unique Services
I went to Kroger’s last Sunday morning at 7:30 am, needing some bacon, pancake mix and melons for a Mother’s Day Breakfast I was preparing for Nancy. Even at that early hour, when I pulled in the parking lot, there were several men out picking up trash and litter. They were the maintenance employees of one of the great local Cville businesses – Unique Services, owned and operated by Lawrence … [Read more...]
Chip Away, Dixieland
I don’t know how many bags of mulch my wife Nancy has used in the last 10 years – probably enough to mulch the state of Delaware. but in the future, we won’t be needing quite as many of those heavy 50-pound bags. That’s because we now have a new Electric Wood Chipper. There is nothing I hate worse than dragging plastic bags filled with twigs and sticks to the curb for Monday morning trash … [Read more...]
Strawberries – Now!
Last week in Cville Buzz, Liberty Mills Farm in Somerset announced the coming strawberry season, which is right now. Get ‘em while they’re ripe! The “You-Pick Strawberry Patch” is open for business. Hours will be Monday -n Friday from 9 am till 1 pm and Saturday from 8 am till 1 pm. Pre-picked berries are for sale now at Liberty Farms as well as at the Farmer’s Market at Forest Lakes on … [Read more...]
Music Under the Stars
The first of six summer concerts performed by the Charlottesville Municipal Band will be a romantic one – “Music Under the Stars”. The performance will be held at Claudius Crozet Park on Tuesday, June 4 starting at 7:30. With Stephen Layman conducting, the Municipal Band will present the Star-Spangled Banner, The Great Waldo Pepper March, Mayflower Overture and works by John Stafford Smith, … [Read more...]
Black Drum Surge
There's been a surge of large Black Drum over the last week, according to Stan Cobb of Greentop, from both the seaside of the Eastern Shore and inside the bay. The Bay bite has been from the CBBT to Cape Charles, with some 70-pounders caught. Fresh clam has been an outstanding bait. The red drum are biting well also, but the blacks made the bigger headlines. Along with the drum, anglers have been … [Read more...]
Striper Time at Anna
Stan Cobb at Greentop says the stripers at Anna have been on fire. Guide Jim Hemby is reporting using up 250 baits in several hours. The stripers are also biting well at Kerr, as they are still performing their spawning rituals. The bass in Kerr, Anna, and Gaston are in post spawn mode for the most part. The boat docks are producing good fish at Gaston and Anna. The shad spawn is occurring in many … [Read more...]
A Sunday Afternoon Nap
When I was a. boy, we never had lunch on Sunday. It was always a “mid-day dinner” and we ate the leftovers for supper. Sunday Dinners were special. After church, we came home to a feast of roast beef, leg of lamb, ham, pork loin, fried chicken or some other heavy entree. The “dinner” came with all the fixing’s – rolls, gravy, green beans, boiled potatoes, pickled beets, sliced tomatoes and then … [Read more...]
And Then There Were None
For the past month, my small flock of 10 goldfinches has been clutching at the thistle cage and jockeying for position at the feeder with the sunflower hearts. I have been able to watch as their Midas-like plumage intensifies. And then one day, when I thought the little golden beauties could not be more spectacular. They disappeared. Vamoosed. They do this to me each year - they tease me with … [Read more...]
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