Late this morning my cell phone rang while I was reading in the car at the farm. It was DISH network. They noticed that my satellite signal was low and wanted to know if they needed to come out on Monday to adjust the dish.
I had just fixed the dish about 2 hours earlier.
On […]

And, no, I’m not talking about a hip replacement.
I especially like #5: add highlights to combovers and hairpieces.

This week I took the leap to expand my camera bag (read about my choice of the D90 here). We’re looking at doing some travel this summer, and I wanted to add some perspective changes. I’ve also found that the factory 18-200mm just doesn’t get up close …

Complete List – The 50 Worst Cars of All Time – TIME – The Yugo had a rear window defroster…to keep your hands warm while pushing it. Only saw one car that my family ever owned in the list – the Ford Pinto.

Being a Republican in the Mid-Atlantic must be oodles of fun these days.
All five of Virginia’s GOP Congressmen; Cantor, Forbes, Wolf, Wittman, & Goodlatte; have joined Bob McDonnell in calling for Jeff Frederick to step down as Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia. Frederick refuses and says that he has an army of activists at […]

Tell me, tell me if you think you know.
A fortnightly rant, FL-S style halftime edition, with a h/t  to Oakland’s hippest trip.
A little after 2PM today, a comment by one of Fred2Blue’s friends showed up on Facebook. It read:
Dear Facebook: If we wanted Facebook to be exactly like Twitter, we’d just use Twitter.
Signed, […]

So it’s March in Virginia…that can mean everything from snow to severe weather (and chasing!). Today it meant snow, as we woke up to a coating of the white stuff on grass and cars but not on the road surfaces. We actually had an inch or so covering…

Stop messing with my daffodils.

Chef Richard Sandoval remembers walking through the outdoor markets of Mexico City as a child, begging his parents for change to buy warm sopes cooking over fire pits.

Today, Sandoval makes the same corn-based sopes for his restaurants, Maya in New York, Tamayo in Denver and Ketsi at the Four Seasons Resort in Punta Mita, Mexico. But instead of filling them with shredded chicken or beef, he uses decadent toppings like duck confit and huitlacoche (a mushroom grown on corn, considered a Mexican delicacy).

Go to any major metropolitan city and you will see loads of options for street food. Sometimes it is just a humble hot dog cart, but increasingly it is so much more. Some of my favorites have been falafel in New York and carne asada in PG County, MD. Street food is for the people, by the people and I love that. Now many chefs are reinterpreting street food for their restaurants. Click here for the USA Today article.

WASHINGTON TIMES
Dumping ’smart growth’ is wise
by Stuart Butler
vice president of domestic policy issues at the Heritage Foundation
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
America is still trying to sort out the housing mess that helped trigger the recession. So far, most of the focus has been on how mortgage companies induced many modest-income families to get too deep into debt. More recently, […]