An L-shaped bar defines the kitchen, once a family parlor. (Photo by Andrea Hubbell) Many house buyers might shy away from a place known to neighbors as “The Cat House.” Especially if the nickname derived from the fact that more than 100 felines had lived there. “As soon as you walked up on the front […]
An L-shaped bar defines the kitchen, once a family parlor. (Photo by Andrea Hubbell) Many house buyers might shy away from a place known to neighbors as “The Cat House.” Especially if the nickname derived from the fact that more than 100 felines had lived there. “As soon as you walked up on the front […]
Tucker Comer, 2, is learning all about the wide world of nature in his parents’ Gordonsville backyard. (Photo by Marcy May Photography) Challenge: Integrating a toddler into the garden By Elexis Comer’s estimation, her family’s garden plot is over 3,000 square feet. She has pictures of her husband, Jamie, preparing the bed in early spring […]
(Photo by beyondtheflavor.com) In the United States, duck has been a traditional autumn and early winter food because that is the appropriate time to pull it from the sky with a gun and some luck. The happy hunter would enjoy an animal robed in fat from easy summer eating. In late fall, the birds have […]
As the owner of Sweethaus, the old-fashioned bakery on West Main Street, Tara Koenig gets to satisfy both her sweet tooth and her love for design. Before opening her cupcake and candy shop last September, she fed her design habit by renovating the kitchen in her 90-year-old home in the Fifeville neighborhood. Not knowing whether or not […]
(File photo) Buying a home with cash. The phrase evokes images of lugging a large suitcase stuffed with bills to closing. What does it really mean and what’s involved? Buying with cash means the buyer has the money available to purchase the house outright; he or she doesn’t have to secure financing from a lender […]
(Photo by Andrea Hubbell) A year ago, Tracey Love and her boyfriend, Bridge, decided to buy a Greenwood farmhouse that was built in 1925. “It was a lifestyle change for sure; it was a commitment. Friends that drive out treat it as if it’s so remote, so rural—when in fact I’m five minutes from Crozet, […]
Anybody who knows me well knows that I’m obsessed with soccer. I maintained a nearly game-by-game Arsenal blog for close to two years
We lingered long after we should have. Tables had been cleared, the swoosh of the dishwasher had replaced the sound of sizzling proteins, and the bar was quiet, apart from the occasional clink of ice in a shift drink. Still, after a meal like the one we’d had at Zinc, we felt an unspoken urge […]
Friday night vines Enjoy a Friday night off the town and in the country when Blenheim Vineyards gets “on the bandwagon.” It’s staying open late this Friday from 6-9pm with live music, spicy sausage from Babes in the Wood, and plenty of winemaker Kirsty Harmon’s vino. Advance tickets cost $10 and include a glass of […]
Summertime’s all about indulging our whims and our desire to be a kid again.