Frog and Goat

If you’ve tried to read this site this afternoon and thought you were losing it, you weren’t. I’ve been monkeying around with lots of things today (it pays to work for yourself).

I hope you’ll like the changes (some are pretty subtle) and I’d like to thank the brilliant better-half for figuring out how I can have a House Proud section and have all those entries go into one place instead of on the main page. If you are reading archives, you’ll see everything all thrown together but if you are keeping up with the scintillating writing, you don’t have to read about House Proud stuff if you don’t want to–although I don’t know why not.

I told the better-half he needs to write an entry (he’s the Goat of Frog and Goat) since he did so much work on the page. Hopefully he will but I’m not going to waste my nag-time on it though…more important chores deserve the nag. Hehe.

The better-half and I went to the Crozet Arts & Craft festival this weekend and while we didn’t actually buy anything we did talk to a ceramics artist about making a sink for us. She had a couple of them on display and since we’re in House Proud-mode we found out what she can do and we got one of her cards. I’m digging the idea of a hand-crafted sink. Art+Function=Smiles.

We stopped in Charlottesville (which seemed weird since my sister and her husband don’t live there any more) and went to Harris Teeter. I know, we’re freaks. But we were happy freaks when we left there. We got some groovy cheeses and two packs of chicken sausages that we couldn’t possibly find in the Richmond area and we bought beer that can’t be purchased in Richmond. We got 4-6packs of Gennesse Cream Ale (which can’t be found in Richmond), a 6 pack of Tennents (which is hard to find in the Richmond area), a 6 pack of Woodpecker Cider and a 4 pack of Bellhaven. After shopping we spent a few minutes wondering why it is that Richmond is lacking.

We have a handful of universities and colleges in the area. Charlottesville has UVA so what makes C’ville more of a college town than Richmond? Why is it that it is hard, hard, hard to find groovy food and beverage items in Richmond? Is it because the family that has the grocery store market in Richmond doesn’t sell beer or wine and somehow that attitude carries over into the other players? Yes, you read that correctly…moral superiority at the supermarket. But, what does it matter? They have tasty ready-made foods and sushi!

If you want Bud, Bud Light, Labatts or even if you need to “PBR me, ASAP” then I can point you to 50 stores that can help you out. You want something off the beaten track then I can point you to a handful of stores.

Is it because of the old joke that the only thing Richmonders like is what happened years ago? You know–I used to love going to that restaurant; I remember the day when that store was in business; Wasn’t it fun when that place had dinner and dancing; blah, blah, blah.

Last year for Columbus Day we went to visit R. & J. in Lancaster, MA. We had a wonderful time. I was going through pictures the other day and came across this one and realized that my copy was pretty bad. Then I found the one R. sent me and it wasn’t much better. I guess that’s what happens when you let some total stranger take a picture of you…the stranger doesn’t necessarily have talent. But, how whiny can you get when they are doing you a total favor. Looking at the picture reminded me that the better-half had a mustache then. I think he kept that thing for about 6 months then gave it the heave-ho.

The Honda had its first oil change yesterday and I feel like a little milestone has passed. I also decided that I was not going to clutter up my windshield with reminder stickers so I put a note on my calendar for January to get the oil changed again.