Quick, off the top of your head, when is the next residential leaf pickup date? When is the next happy hour? The neighborhood picnic? The next pantry collection date? OK, that’s partly a trick question because we don’t have happy hours scheduled for December, and nobody knows when next year’s picnic will be. As for…
A few evenings back Bill and I had the pleasure of hosting our new neighbors now living at 333, Molly and Dale Castle. Over a glass of wine and some crumbly cheese we were privileged to learn about the couple, their children, animals, and plans for their new forever home. Dogs? Why Yes They Do.…
I realize that most of you already know this, but just in case their email ended up in your spam folder, or you are completely new to the neighborhood and never heard, here is the highlight reel. Sue Reid and Jon Strandberg open their doors every Thanksgiving and Christmas to anyone in the neighborhood wanting…
Yep, I’m trying to re-learn my admittedly terrible Spanish. For the fourth time. I promise, no more Spanish will be murdered during the writing of this article. A little background about this post: I had a request from one of our BLRA members to write a short bio of the students in the neighborhood, which…
We all know the drill. You unwrap your latest gizmo from Amazon, set it up, and are left with a pile of trash sometimes completely out of proportion to the size of said gizmo. A cardboard box within a cardboard box which contains the gizmo in a box, packed in foot after foot of plastic…
I had the pleasure of attending the Williamsburg City Council Candidates Forum this past Monday at the Scotland Street library, and was happy to see many of you there as well. (Thanks especially to Jim Penny, Nancy Bolash and Kerry Mellette who worked so hard to bring off the event.) I’d like to take this…
First, an apology. I have been terribly busy for the past few weeks, so haven’t had the chance to write any more articles. Abby, I have not forgotten you. Please comment below if you still want to be interviewed. Also, if anyone wants to guest-write an article for the neighborhood, I would be happy to…
Cyndy and Jon Huddleston moved into their new forever home at 710 Powell this spring, and today took time to show me around their house and gardens. (Note the unusual names. I am somewhat embarrassed to admit I misspelled them both more than once.) When I asked if they would mind being interviewed, Cyndy (pronounced…
Meet Charlene (Char, pronounced ‘shar‘) Grabowski and Anne Hunt, the new owners of 700 Goodwin, the original reconstruction of the Raleigh Tavern Kitchen built at the very start of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s effort to bring Williamsburg back to life. I had the pleasure of talking to Anne and Char today, and, with this blog…
Sometimes I get busy. Sometimes I get forgetful. Sometimes I’m just absent-minded. Sometimes I get busy, absent-minded, and forget to take out the trash. On top of that, our recycling is picked up every other week rather than weekly. I’m not complaining, I’m happy to live in a neighborhood with curbside recycling. But when I…