Archive for March, 2011

The 9th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Festival

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Mar 11th, 2011 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Events

It’s a great day to be Irish!
The 9th Annual St. Patrick’s Day festival and parade at Blue & Gray Brewing Company is tomorrow, Saturday, March 12.

The parade steps off at NOON and includes fire trucks, classic cars, high school marching band, co…



Happy Birthday Mom ?

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Mar 11th, 2011 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I so wish I could say Happy Birthday to you in person. I wish I could feel one of your strong hugs, just once more. I know the angels and Saints are celebrating with you today. I love you Mom, and miss you every day.

Jacqueline Turley
March 11, 1937…



Laugh! – Friday Funny

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Mar 11th, 2011 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Okay, if you don’t laugh out loud at this, you have my sympathy.

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So that is what is at the end of a rainbow

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Mar 10th, 2011 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

From Drop Box I had much higher expectations. (Picture taken in Orange VA) HT Christine Gookin – I stole her joke.



WaPo Beer Madness Winner, It’s a Secret

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Mar 10th, 2011 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Events

The Annual Washington Post Beer Madness Competition has been held, and the winner selected.  The Post asked five readers to join the panel of judges for this year’s event. The group got together on two days and worked their way through 6…



Low-Point Ham and Cheese Scalloped Potatoes

By From http://www.pointsinmylife.com/ • Mar 10th, 2011 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I really thought this would be 15 points per serving with how wonderful it tastes! It always makes me a little nervous to go ahead and eat something so cheesy and delicious before calculating the points. I took the chance after taking it out of the ove…



eBay Auction Leads to Illegal Still in Virginia

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Mar 10th, 2011 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Hint for you moonshiners out there: Don’t advertise your still on eBay. This is from a VA Alcoholic Beverage Control Board (AKA, the revenuers) press release dated March 10:
EBay Leads Special Agents to Still Bust
COLLINSVILLE – Special agents of the…



Saving the Beer – Reaction Time

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Mar 10th, 2011 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

There’s something about this photo that keeps drawing me back to look again. Look at everything going on here, especially the recoil reaction of the crowd. Now look at the guy at the center right. That’s a one-handed grab of the bat, and he doesn’t spi…



A Visit to "Professor" Maury

By From http://thehouseoncarolinestreet.blogspot.com/ • Mar 9th, 2011 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The following is from A Belle of the Fifties by Virginia Clay-Clopton. She doesn’t give a date, but the event clearly took place before June 1861. “Professor” Maury (she seems to have forgotten his full name, Matthew Fontaine Maury) was still the …



A Visit to "Professor" Maury

By From http://thehouseoncarolinestreet.blogspot.com/ • Mar 9th, 2011 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The following is from A Belle of the Fifties by Virginia Clay-Clopton. She doesn’t give a date, but the event clearly took place before June 1861. “Professor” Maury (she seems to have forgotten his full name, Matthew Fontaine Maury) was still the …