This question was on my mind a few days ago during a meeting of the BLRA Elections Committee. (A grandiose name for three of us sitting around in Nancy’s breezeway.) More on this in a bit. Later, after I was done toiling on my third –and final– retaining wall, I decided to go looking for…
Everyone likes to make fun of Chaos Corner, the historic “V” where Jamestown Rd. meets Richmond Rd. It’s a bit dangerous, with Merchant’s Square and William & Mary students and tourists and dogs and bicycles and stop signs and yield signs and no signs and crosswalks. Many drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists don’t understand who has…
Hello neighbors. I know I haven’t written since Christmas, but in my defense, well, I don’t actually have any except that I’ve been busy. We spent Christmas with our daughters in Austin, TX, and have had a full calendar since. When we have some nice warm weather in the spring, I hope you can all…
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…
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…
As you can see, we’ve re-launched our neighborhood website, and have made a few changes. Before I go on, here’s a shout-out to Ted Mittler who created and maintained the site for years. I copied most of the information on the current site from Ted’s original. Thanks from the neighborhood, Ted. What is new? So…