“As wood grew scarce in England and France, laws were decreed limiting its use among commoners…In the mid-1600s, the British authorities decreed that Virginians who owned a hundred acres or more must build in brick.”—James Howard Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-made Landscape Kansas City, come to meHow one […]
“As wood grew scarce in England and France, laws were decreed limiting its use among commoners…In the mid-1600s, the British authorities decreed that Virginians who owned a hundred acres or more must build in brick.”—James Howard Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-made Landscape Kansas City, come to meHow one […]
For those who had Sam Perlozzo in the Major League Managers Office Death Pool for June, please collect your winnings next to the coffee and doughnuts. The 56-year-old Perlozzo was welcomed on June 18 into the Orioles scrap heap of Ray Miller, Mike Hargrove and Lee Mazzilli—all managers who failed to produce a winner in […]
Sarah Owen and Andrew Sherogan are the latest in a very, very long line of people to occupy their house. Once a kitchen or cook’s house on a 1,020-acre plantation owned by the uncle of Meriwether Lewis, “The Farm” was built as early as the 1730s—some say it’s the oldest house in Charlottesville—and has a […]
You’re no dummy. You peruse the local newspapers and pore over real estate websites. Then there’s the TV news, always rife with reports about a bleak real estate market. And it’s hard to miss the plethora of For Sale signs—very few of which have the words “Under Contract” tacked onto the front. So you figured […]
Terry Lilley’s son Isaiah mows the old-fashioned way—more practical in a small lawn space. We are living in a new age of green. All things sustainable, carbon-neutral and energy-efficient are hot; locally, new groups are forming to promote the green agenda and institutions like UVA and Albemarle County are making public commitments to sustainable construction. […]
July in the gardenUse containers for a fresh start. Mulch immediately after weeding. Learn to prune all the different shrubs. Horticultural wisdom counsels the gardener to surrender to the torpor of summer and do as little as possible—a welcome respite for those who’ve been working steadily since spring, and in the heat and humidity of […]
Decked outhttp://www.bobvila.com/DesignTools/DeckDesigner.html Just when we thought we were truly DIY, we come crawling back to Bob Vila. But not without good reason! The Deck Designer tool featured on Mr. Vila’s website is the perfect instrument for those who don’t know where to start on their summer deck-building projects. Unlike with other design software that requires […]
Here’s one general way to describe my life: Go to CVS for decongestants and a birthday card—acquire plastic bag. Go to Best Buy for the DVD and the soundtrack to my latest favorite movie, Terrence Malick’s The New World—acquire plastic bag. Go to Giant for weekly supply of groceries—acquire several plastic bags. Go to Blue […]
StreamWatch volunteer training Get in the flow of cleaning up local water If you join StreamWatch’s band of volunteers, you’ll collect samples of Sowbugs, fly larvae and other creepy crawlies to check the Rivanna’s livability. If you were leafing through this year’s picks for the C-VILLE 20 last month, you may have noticed John Murphy, […]
Claudia “Poody” Wisman is ready to move out of Greenbrier Heights, but not because she hasn’t loved living there during the past 20 years. “I think it’s time for us to move and let another family have a chance,” she says. A chance at what exactly? In her case that would be the chance to […]