ah yes, the fragrance of roasting stinkbugs

For different types of CSAs, depending on what you're focused on, some people get a meat/eggs one at one farm veggies/greens at another and baked/canned goods at another. Most producers have some type of option. I like St Stephen's market on saturdays because it's laid out like a village, parking and access are easy, it's almost all food, and they went to a lot of trouble keeping everyone safe. Booths are still more than 6ft apart.Some local CSAs available there or at the Birdhouse market on Tuesdays: Broadfork Farm, TomTen Farm, Shirefolk Farm, Crumptown Farm, Amy's Organic.

Edit to add another resource: Some of these are listed on St Stephen's weekly market vendors page: https://www.ststephensrva.org/community/farmers-market/market-vendor-list-for-saturday/

Brenda Gentry at https://www.muttluck.com/ specializes in difficult dogs.
She works one on one, and is my go-to referral for reactive working dogs.

It's not always on the menu, but when it is, Kitchenette.

That kid didn't have a chance. What a tragedy all around. RIP Lucia.

I would, but your account is locked.

I'm in the midst of some random home maintenance tasks that could use a spare set of hands, if you're into following directions one step at a time.

The goodwill at Horsepen & Broad has a pretty good men's wear section.

Better to think of zoos as genetic arks, saving species by studying them. Zoos all over the world share data without regard for boundaries, more concerned that their animals can be healthy, and if possible, support their wild cousins by educating people about what they need to survive.

https://worstcats-blog.tumblr.com/post/97243616862/this-is-the-worst-cat

Even if you don't have a photo ID, you can still vote provisionally. That means your vote won't be counted unless it's close, and then all the provisional votes are tallied. Still worth showing up!

It's an old print from Favianna Rodriguez https://favianna.com/ Probably over a decade ago. I just stumbled across it on a backup.Think I got it from Wes Freed.

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Unfortunately, I didn't go and do a broad search for all VZ stores in the area on that page. Nice how the 'no equipment returns' line is in fine print. What happens is going through their upgrade process steps, I was given instructions that include "any VZ store" as ok for returns. Looking through that page, return acceptance is only at 4 places in the greater RVA area. The Forest Hill store does take equipment, but they have no practice of sorting out incoming customers by need or complexity of issue. There should be a sign or a person to say "here is where you return equipment" but instead, you wait in line behind people who are doing complicated transactions that could take half an hour apiece. When all that's needed is to hand a box to someone who can key in the return code and wave bye, waiting an hour is not on my calendar.

Gov Youngkin has to call for a special election for that seat. So now we wait.

I suspect the biggest issue is their separation of cell phone from internet service, with not all stores knowing anything about the home services side; only the cell phones. It's not always clear which type of store it is.

Nothing is said about any of that on their websites, and the upgrade process cheerfully extols how simple it is to return your old VZ stuff to "any VZ store!" The simple act of returning used equipment to complete a contract should be streamlined at this point. Glad UPS is an option. I didn't find out that it was an option from the upgrade instructions, but from a net search in the parking lot on Forest Hill. Hope I've saved someone some moments of annoyance.

Home Restore can be a good place and believe they do deliver furniture. The southside store is definitely higher priced higher-end stuff than downtown, but both change over pretty fast too, so there's reason to look again.
https://richmondhabitat.org/restore/

Sounds like you'd keep her if you could. The only trainer I know in RVA that deals with high drive dogs like that is Brenda at MuttluckRVA. I would reach out to her and see if she has suggestions for working with your dog.

Leek & Thistle, down in the Bottom, when they have it. Their take-home, netflix & warm-up menu is seasonally-driven because they buy from local farmers, so it changes. Pretty much anything they make is awesome though. They're having an open house menu tasting today, Thursday Oct 27. Worth checking out. https://www.leekthistle.com/

I don't, but I see it all over the place, and am down with your search. I know farmers that would love the help, that seems win-win. If you're out hunting, I've seen it on the southside at the bottom of the Lee bridge. There's a lot of foot traffic through the park trails that cross there, and along the Flood Wall, as well as the area around the T-Pot bridge. If you're interested in finding a farmer for a mutually beneficial partnership, LMK and I'll be happy to find one for you.

Came to VA to escape FLA, haven't gone back. A steaming swamp with fetid people.