I saw a picture of a sandwich wrapped in waxed paper recently that took me back to the 1950’s and brown bag lunches. As an elementary student, sometimes I ate in the cafeteria, assuming someone had an available quarter, but usually Mom would pack my lunch – a cookie, an apple and a sandwich wrapped in waxed paper. I remember watching the early commercials of Reynolds’s Waxed Paper … [Read more...]
A Reminder: Lights Out for Special Savings
I spend a good bit of my time at Lights Out, a discount lighting store in Ruckersville. When there are no customers, I type. When customers come in, I sell, and we have the best bargains going in the lighting business. Each January, my wife Nancy and I go to the Dallas market. She may buy 100 new fixtures for her showroom, Nancy B’s House of Lights. When they come in, we take down … [Read more...]
Raising Frogs
All I know about frogs would fill a book about the size of Nancy Pelosi’s new book on “Avoiding Botox”. Yet, I am a frog-ladite. I love the little amphibians. We have a small lily pond with pads and flowers, and occasionally a frog will show up out of the blue. This spring, dozens and dozens of tiny tadpoles materialized in the pond and we have no idea who the father was or the … [Read more...]
Seven Layer Bars
My mom used to make Seven Layer Bars, especially if company was coming. These sweet morsels are to die for – rich, creamy, chocolaty and delicious. I thought about Mom and those bars recently and decided to make a batch for some kids I cook for. As expected, each and every one was wolfed down and an order is now on the table for more, any time I want to make a batch. Seven Layer … [Read more...]
Melon-Choly
I like a little fruit for breakfast – blueberries, strawberries, bananas and especially cantaloupes. But I haven’t had even a decent cantaloupe all year long. I’ll see them in the produce department - $3.99 with card – and the cards taste better. They are tasteless and basically inedible. Grocery stores wouldn’t sell you a steak that was inedible, or a half-gallon of milk or a … [Read more...]
National Park Road Trip
By Lee Walker (With the dog days of summer upon us, it’s time to head for the mountains. The Shenandoah Mountains. Lee Walker suggests these trips for beauty and great fishing.) Day 1 Morning: The Hughes River Start your day early in the morning, driving about 40 minutes from Jollette to the Hughes River. You can access some of the best spots on the 14-mile long Hughes via … [Read more...]
Blackwater Endangered Species
VDGIF biologists returned to sample the acidic, dark-water swamps and beaver ponds in southeast Virginia. Their quarry was a two-inch long member of the bass family and a state endangered species known as the Blackbanded Sunfish (Enneachanthus chatedon). This sunfish prefers shallow portions of ponds that are thick with submerged aquatic vegetation – bladderwort, water milfoil, and … [Read more...]
Virginia Saltwater Action
Dr. Ken Neill, III The bluefin tuna that were hanging on the Fingers seem to have moved on. They have been replaced by yellowfin tuna in the 40-pound class. Dolphin and some wahoo are also being caught at the Fingers. More billfish are showing up out around 100 fathoms. There are amberjack at the southern towers. Spadefish are at the Chesapeake Light Tower and over most of the coastal … [Read more...]
Chickahominy Cats
Thirty years ago, the Rappahannock River was noted as Virginia’s premiere catfish river. The Rapp drew wide numbers of tourists looking for that 30 or 40 pounder. But then, the James got hot with monster cats pulled in near Hopewell. Then it was Buggs Island producing fish in excess of 100 pounds. But throughout all that, the Chickahominy River remains a top spot for catfish large and … [Read more...]
Uncle Sidney
Looking back over the years, is there a single Boomer who didn’t have a strange – or let’s say “interesting” - relative or two. I sure did. One that comes immediately to mind was Uncle Sidney. Uncle Sidney was my grandmother’s (Mama Ida) younger brother. She was a Davis and had three sisters - Ann, Pearl and Topsy, and two brothers, Arthur and Sidney. The family lost their mother soon after Topsy, … [Read more...]
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