
Girl Scout Cookie time is here.
I bought my Thin Mints from these young ladies at their stand near Roy's Big Burger in Richmond's Lakeside.
You can find other Richmond area locations here.
It looks like most of the River City food chains are stepping up to the plate and filling the void left by MARTIN'S® Food Markets and their Girl Scout Cookie Free Zone.
More to come on this story in days to come.

The Sham and Gotham Stakes were this weekend and I got tied up doing some research on these important prep races for the Kentucky Derby.

As a result I made the scene at the old Pump House too late to catch the action as The Foundation for Paranormal Research and Robert Bess fired up the mysterious Parabot in an attempt to capture and contain denizens of the spirit world as part of their Three Mile Lock Experiment-Conquest.

I was sorry I missed the show, but it looked like they had a good crowd and no dangerous and hostile spirits had escaped the Parabot to wreak havoc upon the curious public attending the event.
I may have jumped to that conclusion too soon.
A local blog, the Boulevardizen, is reporting that malevolent forces attacked a SUV.
According to the blog, the driver escaped injury but a large sink hole remained behind as testament to the power of natural forces mistreated at the hands of Man.

I checked out the scene myself this morning (Sunday).
The SUV was gone, but the Richmond Police Department has sealed off Pump House Drive to vehicular traffic and hid the offending sink hole from public view with plywood.
There'll be more to come on this story too.

I also took a trip down to the "honey hole" on the James River to see what they're catching these days. Kudos to the City of Richmond or whoever for an amazing job in clearing a hard winters worth of driftwood and assorted human trash from this area.
In about a month, this part of the James River will be full of fat Atlantic Shad, making their annual run upstream to spawn and the banks fat with fisher folks trying to catch their share.
Already the Shad Darts have made their way into the local tackle shops and we're starting to see increasing rod and reel action on the banks. Even some boats under the I-95 bridge.

Of course these folks aren't looking for shad just yet... Bass is on their minds today, but in about four weeks slabsides will be all the rage and these winter bass a distant memory.
Plenty of updates to come as the James River Shad Run starts to move.
And finally, the Richmond Public Schools has mounted an excellent exhibit of student art at the Westover Hills Branch of the Richmond Public Library.
Here are a couple of examples picked at random from this body of very fine work by talented youngsters from our local area schools.

Hadji Dieye, Grade 8

Karen Orellana, Grade 3

Mariah Bonner, Grade 5

Tyler Reid, Grade 3
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