Northern Virginia

[ECO]

It looks like I'm doing a road trip to Virginia next month to see my little cousin get married. It's been almost 15 years since I moved from VA and I think I've only seen her once since so it will be nice to see some family and visit where I lived for a few years. Hopefully the apple and peach harvest season will not be over when I get there...........I love picking fresh peaches from the tree!

[Wahoo]

Autumn has always been my favorite season, and I used to look forward to those seasonal trips to the apple and peach orchards. I could nyam winesap and Macintosh apples all day. Also enjoyed treks into the woods to collect wild nuts, especially black walnuts and hickory nuts. I have an unnatural love of hickory nuts, except that the shells are as hard as steel (Jamaican or otherwise) and almost impossible to crack, even with a hammer. A real treat was to find a lone persimmon tree with ripe persimmons. There's nothing sweeter than a ripe persimmon (and nothing more astringent than an unripe one). If you want to find a persimmon tree, just follow an opposum--they'll lead you right to it every time.

[ECO]

I didn't know you ate the black walnuts, for me they were target practice! I've never heard of a persimmon but I'll be sure to try one. Hopefully I will have some extra time to drive out to Skyline drive or up to Mount Weather.........ah I miss VA!

[Wahoo]

Try not to fall into an abandoned missile silos! And if you hear smaddy plucking the song from Deliverance on a banjo, get out of there fast!

[ECO]

Lol, I just landed in DC, if I fall into the silo hopefully you will break my fall.

Short flights suck, only time for one double scotch!

[Wahoo]

I should've wheedled an invitation to this wedding so I could join the line to kiss the bride.

Just got back from taking Sugar Puss (my cat) to the vet for her rabies shot. This was the 2nd trip to the vet this week. Took her last Monday for her checkup and distemper and rabies shots, but they were out of rabies vaccine, so had to make a return trip today. Wish the bitches had called to tell me they were out of rabies vaccine so I would have had to make only trip.

[ECO]

Kiss the bride..........that's my little 20-25 year old cousin!

My thoughts on VA.......it's cold and rainy, no clue why I use to live here.

[Wahoo]

Tell me about it! Been raining, nonstop, for 3 freakin days! That's good, I guess, for the reservoirs and stuff, but if it's still raining tomorrow, I'm moving to southern California!

[ECO]

Wahoo, here are some pictures of the Marine Museum:

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[ECO]

More and one picture of the President and his wife at the airport.

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[Wahoo]

Too bad we didn't have time to stop so you could've gotten some great roadkill pics.

[ECO]

The next time I'll take some pictures of you posing next to the road kill with your Marine fighting knife and make it look like you killed them

Tinks, that's not a toilet, it's a family bathroom people use them for shagging.

[Wahoo]

Eco, was it you who told me about Virginia's dead deer list? Apparently there's a list you can get on where when a deer get hit by a car and if your name is next on the list, VDOT gives you a call to come pick up your deer. If anyone knows the phone number to call to get on that list, I'd be ever so grateful for the phone number, 'cause I want on that list!

And if there're similar lists for squirrels, cats, etc., send me those phone numbers, too. With the outrageous prices for meat nowadays (for instance, I paid $7.50 for a pound of 97% lean ground beef last nite for the cabbage rolls I made for dinner), it's a crying shame to see all that perfectly good protein go to waste.

[ECO]

Call your local game warden to get on the list. A deer will yield between 35-60 pounds of meat at almost 0% fat so that's some $$$ if you can butcher them on your own. The sucky part is field dressing them and risking the bladder tainting the meat....yuk.

[Wahoo]

1'-2' of snow predicted for NoVa? No sweat! I've had arctic survival training...and I got a case and a half of beer in reserve!

[Wahoo]

Furthermore, I discovered a couple of Tyson rock cornish game hens and a pak of stuffed clams in my freezer I'd forgotten about, so I'm set. Anyways, I figure a guy can go a week or longer without food or milk or toilet paper, but as long as I got, I'll survive. (I'm not sure I could make it longer than 2 days without beer, though...)

[Wahoo]

Snow advisory has been upgraded to a blizzard warning, in effect until 6:00 p.m. today. Another 8-12 inches of snow forecasted, on top of the 8 inches that fell overnight. Got to suit up here shortly--Wahoo's got a lot of global warming to shovel today.

[Wahoo]

On second thought, the snow shoveling can wait...think I'll go rustle up a big heaping plate of hashbrowns w/onions, crack open another beer, and bend some more notes on my blues harmonica.

[Rose21]

Snow advisory has been upgraded to a blizzard warning, in effect until 6:00 p.m. today. Another 8-12 inches of snow forecasted, on top of the 8 inches that fell overnight. Got to suit up here shortly--Wahoo's got a lot of global warming to shovel today.

Wahoo, when your done shoveling, swing by me I've some work for you dear.
You look like a strong guy, I think you can shovel my front and back yard in no time.

[Wahoo]

Not today, Rose. I just shoveled for 2 hours, and I'm knackered. I'm too exhausted to even play more blues. I know I'm going to feel the aches tomorrow.