A 17 year old boy with a Maryland church group apparently drowned today in the river. Not a good weekend for the area.

…and they didn’t even provide covered dugouts. WTF? Our first baseball game was yesterday. It was 100 degrees and brutally humid. We were playing at Patriot Park, Spotsylvania’s brand new park featuring 6 baseball fields, 6 soccer fields, and amphitheater, and more. The fields are great, nice and level with bermuda grass outfields. However, somewhere […]

Despite early predictions of it’s demise, Old Dominion Brewery in Asburn, VA continues to produce new and interesting beers. When this Virginia establishment was sold to a group comprised of Fordham Brewing and Anheuser-Busch, the brewery’s obituary wa…

Sunday June 1st [1862] I succeeded, after two trials, in getting a pass for Mr. White to bring Molly in and sent a man with it yesterday. He returned this morning. Molly is not at Mr. Whites though he expected her for some days. He thinks…

When the temperature nears 100 like yesterday (and the heat index is well above that), lots of adventurous folks head to the Rappahannock River to cool off. We stopped at the riverside to watch the canoeists and tubers for a bit. The river gauge was in…

John LeFabre, an active member of the Spotsylvania Democratic Committee, sent us this copy of an email he received from a fellow Spotsy Dem. I got a kick out of it, and I think you will too.
Yesterday Judi and Chris and I went to the Obama event at the Nissan Pavilion. After we passed through security (at […]

I took this at 5 PM as we parked for dinner. It hit 107 on the drive from home. I can honestly say I’ve never enjoyed a baseball game less than today. It didn’t help that we lost 10-0.

Ah, I’m sitting here with an ice cold Tecate, watching the birds and squirels fight over the bird feeder, on an absolutely balmy day. It’s 5 degrees cooler here than at the strip mall in front of my subdivision.Today I was out grabbing some paint and …

Endorsements have been all the rage this campaign season. Every time another big name came out for Barack Obama people wondered: Is this the one? Is this the endorsement that will send him over the top? No offense to Ted Kennedy or Bill Richardson or John Edwards….but THIS was the big one. June 7, 2008.
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I first enjoyed Avery India Pale Ale during a trip to Denver a couple of years ago. Fortunately, it is one of the few Avery beers we can easily find locally. (Another “regular” Avery beer around here is Elle’s Brown Ale.) One thing that really stands o…