The best part about autumn may be the hunting season, and it’s finally here. As the temperatures cool and the trees surrender their leaves, it’s time to lace up the boots and get in the woods. Hunting season for nearly all game species opens in the fall. Squirrel, deer, bear, turkey, migratory game bird and waterfowl all make for exciting experiences and delightful table fare. VDGIF biologists … [Read more...]
Susie Q Farm Open For Fall Fishing
As pressure on our public trout waters increase, there has been a trend to fee fishing in privately stocked trout waters. It costs a fee to fish these streams, but anglers can usually be assured that there are plenty of trout to cast to and not so many fishermen on the stream to ruin the experience. Susie Q Farm has such a stretch of water and they are now booking through the month of … [Read more...]
Neat Stuff: SkRaprs
A year or so ago we remodeled our kitchen and bought new appliances. We wanted them white to match the cabinets. I also insisted on a ceramic stovetop to replace the outdated burner tops. Bad move. As we would quickly discover, white ceramic stovetops show everything – black, ugly marks appeared if the heat got even a little high and it was a pain to scrub and clean the tops – my job, since … [Read more...]
Real Men Cooking Quiche
A number of years ago, there was a saying or an ad someplace that said, “Real men don’t eat quiche.” Being a real man, I didn’t eat it, though my wife Nancy loved it. However, being an amateur chef, I had to try my hand at a Quiche Lorraine and my version turned out so well that Nancy thinks it might even be better than her recipe. The word “quiche”, or so they believe, comes from the … [Read more...]
Ingleside Beauty
My brother Charlie and I were able to slip in a round of golf at Ingleside last Saturday. It was Charlie’s first ever round at Ingleside and it was my first time on the course this year, begging the question: Why don’t you play this course more often? For starters, it’s a beautiful setting, particularly the back nine where all you see are trees and mountains. It’s also a most reasonable course … [Read more...]
The Kings are Biting
It’s prime time for king mackerel fishing in Virginia and offshore boats are putting fish in their live wells. This week, lots of 40 and 50 pound mackerel were gaffed off of Virginia Beach. Also, the ocean wrecks are producing sea bass, triggerfish and a few flounder. Large red and black drum are beginning to leave their summer hangouts in the Chesapeake Bay. Reds are still being landed on the … [Read more...]
Powdered Milk
By the time we had settled in at Lewisburg, WV around 1956, television had really hit its stride. Great shows were airing, the majority of homes now had sets and the power of a television ad was daunting. If we saw it on TV, we had to have it. I remember Saturday morning cartoons, many sponsored by M&Ms. “They melt in your mouth, not in your hands!” the ad said. And we begged for … [Read more...]
Liberty Mills Farm Corn Maze
It’s time to get lost. It’s time to head to Somerset and wander around within a cornfield maze for several hours, hoping someone will find you and you can get out. Actually, they have mazes of varying degrees of difficulty and no one has ever been permanently lost at Liberty Mills Farm, though buzzards have been seen circling the back of the field on several occasions. But the maze is … [Read more...]
Poached Rockfish
What, exactly, are rockfish, my friend Janice Kaltenbach wanted to know. She was confused about the terminology, reading somewhere that rockfish were native only to the Pacific. I explained that here in Virginia, as well as Maryland, some people refer to striped bass that are caught in saltwater as “rocks” or “rockfish”, while those same striped bass caught in freshwater are dubbed … [Read more...]
Abe Lincoln Tomatoes
My Daddy always said that it didn’t matter when you planted tomatoes in your garden, they all came in at the same time. Meaning….. for a few short weeks in the summer, you’ll have tomatoes coming out of the wazoo, and then it’s back to eating plastic tomatoes from the grocery store. But I believe I’ve solved the tomato glut problem, This spring, my Nancy started a patio garden at the top of … [Read more...]
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