Archive for August, 2009

Allagash Beer Dinner Menu Posted

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Aug 4th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Events

Capital Ale House has published the menu for its upcoming Allagash Brewing Beer Dinner with brewer Rob Tod. The lineup of beers is quite intriguing. The event will be held at the downtown Richmond Capital Ale House on August 12.Opening beer: Allagash W…



First Hop Harvest at Devils Backbone

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Aug 4th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The folks at Devils Backbone Brewing Company are enjoying the harvest of their first crop of hops grown at the brewery. On Monday, brewer Jason Oliver and team were picking Cascade hops from the brewery’s garden. Nelson County Life has the story and ph…



Catherine Crabill Needs to Enroll in Civics 101

By From http://fred2blue.com • Aug 4th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

On her website, Catherine Crabill asks people to contact Del. Albert Pollard about the President’s health care reform plan.
URGENT!
Read this and then CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES and tell them what you think of their “health care” plan before its too late! Ask Albert Pollard if he supports his Party’s Plan.
What?!
This is one of many examples of […]



Teaching naked at SMU

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Aug 4th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

That headline ought to do wonders for my search engine traffic
Basically, SMU is just now figuring out what homeschoolers have known for years, lectures are a lousy way to learn. The dean of the arts program at SMU has removed most of the technology from the classrooms and instead has outfitted the instructors […]



The third “H” arrives

By From http://fburg-weather.blogspot.com/ • Aug 3rd, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

All summer I’ve been commenting on how we’ve had some heat and some humidity, two of the three “H’s” of a typical Virginia summer, but we hadn’t seen the third ingredient – haze – yet. Today I had to rescind that observation as the third “H” showed up…



Wolf Hills Brewing Company, A New Brewery for Virginia

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Aug 3rd, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

If all goes according to plan, Virginia will soon gain yet another craft beer brewery. Wolf Hills Brewing Company is a new brewery in the works in Abingdon, Virginia. This small brewery has been in planning for about a year. Local permits are complete …



Your favorite hate blogger hits the big time again, starts contributing to Virginia Virtucon.

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Aug 3rd, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

They must be hard-pressed for contributors over there. 🙂
I haven’t decided yet what will be posted here, or at Virtucon, or cross-posted on both blogs.



I Have Returned—A Visit to the Ancestral Sod

By From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Aug 3rd, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”Saint AugustineI have returned from the family wanderings in Ireland. And to my credit, I am told; I turned in the rental car with the mirrors intact, with only very minor scratche…



Day Two–The Cliffs of Moher

By From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Aug 3rd, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

I’m going to let these pictures speak for themselves. I do think it is important to point out that we did hike the entire length of the cliffs, four miles out, and four miles back, along the edge. Its amazing what a 16 year old can talk you into…….



Day Three–Aran Islands

By From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Aug 3rd, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

The Obligatory Abandoned HomeAn old stone house along the road. Had to have at least one in this set of photos to keep my average up. Needless to say this is a common site in Ireland. I took this photo because the hearth is still visible.A View from t…