Wednesday 30th April [1862] Went down yesterday evening to see the bridge of canal boats that the Yankees are building at the lower wharf. The boats are laid close together side by side. The length of the boat being the width of the bridge…

The Board of Supervisors agreed last night to contribute $1,200,000 in local funding to the school system.
$600,000 will come from the general fund.
The other $400,000 will be sent back to the schools from the school’s unencumbered balance (i.e., money that is left over from this closing fiscal year that would go back to the county […]

Hi everybody,

We’ll be playing at a new vineyard this weekend. Hope you
can join us!

Laurie and Peter

www.laurieandpeter.com

Sunday May 26, 1:00-4:00PM . 

Oak Crest
Winery
8215 Oak Crest Drive
King George, VA 540-663-2813

Food and beer (or food with beer) has been getting a lot of press lately, and last week’s SAVOR event help to push the topic to the front pages. I talk to a lot of people about the topic and I’ve found that to most people beer and food translates to “c…

I happened along this great article about an Australian family who bought a chateau in Normandy and now run a cooking school/B&B out of it. Better yet they split their time between their homes in France and Australia. Sigh.

While my dream doesn’t look exactly like that, it’s pretty close. For me a Paris apartment (cliche, I know) close to a great outdoor food market, restaurants and the metro is the dream. Of course I would split my time with the ‘burg. I would go visit cheesemakers, wineries and spend my time finding the next great thing for kybecca. Hey, a girl can dream right?

(Pardon the vague reference to Battlestar Galactica.)
To recap:

Caroline County has requested and received $490,000 from the federal government in the form of a FY08 earmark for a “commuter rail station” (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008; p. 2465).*
Caroline County has received $100,000 from the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation in the form of a grant […]

Sunday 27th [April 1862] Our pickets have succeeded in getting of a large quantity of their stores from here. Received a budget of letters from the dear ones in Richmond to day. We hear that the Yankees have set a stro…

Dear Rain Guys,

What we could use around this neck of the swamp is a little global
drying! More rain this morning. I’m so relieved, I didn’t think that
dry spell we’ve had for the last day was ever going to break. I woke
this morning yet again to the …

Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Just before 1 p.m. yesterday, Richmond authorities received a call of a black-bear sighting on Helen Lane, off Commerce Road in South Richmond. A number of police officers were called to the area to search for the bear.
[…]
Officers cruising the area did not find any bears — but did come across two large black […]

Sunday night I was up until 1 AM reading. Last night I finished the book at 2 AM. That probably tells you all you need to know about my opinion of the book. Breck read it in one sitting the day it came in. I handed him the book at 1:30 PM and he was do…