Wine Dinner DelFosse Winery. 434-263-6100
Starry Nights at Veritas Vineyards & Winery
Join us for an evening of pure merriment with Jackass Flats playing toe-tapping bluegrass. Bring your chairs, blankets, dancing shoes and picnic baskets, watch the sun go down and the stars come out. Enjoy live music, dancing, wine and a great crowd. Vineyard picnic dinners available. 7 -11 pm. Fee includes wine glass and live music. 540-456-8000
Harvest Celebration DelFosse Winery
Harvest Celebration DelFosse Winery from 5-8 pm 434-263-6100
WEDNESDAY WEATHER : Sunny & Hot! : Watching Hanna By Friday : And, More Tropical Depressions?
REFRESH Nelson County Life Magazine HERE
Forecast By Tommy Stafford – Nelson County Life Magazine
LISTEN TO THE WEATHER BY PRESSING THE BUTTON.
Photography By Henri & Elaine Weems
Nelson County Life Magazine ©2008
Dawn’s Early Light In The Rockfish Valley
Nellysford, Virginia
Today’s weather and is brought to you exclusively by:
–
-Fall Mums – come get some color!
-Broccoli & Cabbage starts for your fall garden.
-Delfosse Wine Tasting is Thursday September 18th from 5-8 PM – In October it’s every Thursday in celebration of Virginia Wine Month!
-Scheduling Hay Rides & Pumpkin Picking Day Trips for school and daycare groups.
Homestead Creamery milk available in the farm market at a.m. Fog. This is the real thing in those familiar glass bottles. It gets delivered fresh every Wednesday! And don’t forget the butter too!
5lb bag local potatoes $4
Oyster Mushrooms picked daily!!
Local Fresh Picked Apples
(sad to say peaches are done for the year)
Newly In…Sorgham Molasses from Kentucky. From all accounts GOOOODDDDD STUFF.
Silver King Corn until early-mid September. $5 per dozen.
Bi-Color corn still available & delicious.
FIREWOOD, it IS time for that already!!
You can always visit them on the web at www.amfog.net or call ’em at 540-456-7100
Rainfall totals as of 11:59 PM EDT Tuesday night:
–TUESDAY High / Low at NCL-Nelson County Life Magazine in the Rockfish Valley : 92°/54° – RAIN : 0.00″ – YTD: 20.10″
–TUESDAY High / Low at NCL-TWNF on Devil’s Knob @ Wintergreen Mountain : 80°/56° – RAIN 0.00″ – YTD: 28.18″
–TUESDAY High / Low at NCL-Hatcreek Farm on Horseshoe Mountain @ Roseland, VA : 88°/55°– RAIN : 0.04″ – YTD: 26.56″
–TUESDAY High / Low at NCL-Tiger Fuel @ Lovingston, VA : 88°/56° – RAIN : 0.00″ – YTD: 24.74″
–TUESDAY High / Low at NCL-Delfosse Winery & Vineyard @ Faber, VA : 88°/61° – RAIN : 0.00″ EST – YTD: 20.25″
Don’t forget the Crutchfield Electronics Recycling truck that will be at the RVCC this coming Saturday on September 6th from 9 AM to 3 PM. That’s the same day as the pancake breakfast. For this one day only, Crutchfield is waiving the normal small fee for you to get rid of most any electronics. Nelson County Life, The RVCC & Crutchfield have all teamed up to bring the truck to Nelson for this one special day. They tell me pretty much anything with a corded plug qualifies! Click on the Crutchfield image on the upper left of your screen under the cover photo to learn more.
5 Day Forecast Prediction For Hanna
We continue watching Hanna out in the Atlantic. She’s been going back and forth between a tropical storm and a hurricane over the past couple of days. Right now the track has Hanna coming ashore Friday morning somewhere around the NE part of Florida upward to near SC. That will be updated as we get closer to the weekend. Then over the next day or so Hanna should migrate northward over Virginia by Saturday morning. If that track continues, then we’ll have a pretty good shot at some more rain, some possibly heavy. But any slight variation in the course of the storm could change all of that.
There’s tons of other tropical activity taking place right now including several new disturbances out in the Atlantic. It’s probable that some other than Hanna will affect the U.S. in the coming days. You can see them all by clicking here.
The nice, but hot, weather continues until Friday when chances for thunderstorms associated with Hanna may arrive.
Eastern U.S. Regional Current Surface Map via wunderground
Looking 12-24 Hours Ahead
Your Nelson County Life custom area forecast including: Lake Monocan, Arrington, Crozet, Humpback Rocks.
WEDNESDAY: Sunny and continued hot!
* Highs Valley: 91-94°
*On the mountains: 77-80°
*Winds: L & V becoming S in the afternoon.
*OVERNIGHT: Clear & cool. Lows valley: 55-58° : Mountains: 57-60° : Winds: S-5 MPH becoming L & V
THURSDAY: Sunny slightly warmer.
* Highs Valley: 92-95°
*On the mountains: 78-81°
*Winds: SW-5 MPH
*OVERNIGHT: Partly cloudy & mild. Lows valley: 61-64° : Mountains: 59-62° : Winds: L & V
EXTENDED OUTLOOK
FRI: Mostly Cloudy T-Storm 78/61
SAT: Mostly Cloudy T-Storm 81/67
SUN: Partly Sunny 84/67
MON: Sunny 81/63
TUE: Partly Sunny T-Storm 81/63
All mountain temperatures in the extended period roughly 10-15 degrees cooler than those listed in the valley for afternoon highs.
Have a great Wednesday!
WEATHER TUESDAY : Sunny & Warmer : Effects From Hanna By Week’s End?
REFRESH Nelson County Life Magazine HERE
Forecast By Tommy Stafford – Nelson County Life Magazine
LISTEN TO THE WEATHER BY PRESSING THE BUTTON.
Photography By Chuck Strauss
Nelson County Life Magazine ©2008
Clearing Skies Over Rodes Farms
Nellysford, Virginia
Today’s weather and is brought to you exclusively by:
–
-Fall Mums – come get some color!
-Broccoli & Cabbage starts for your fall garden.
-Delfosse Wine Tasting is Thursday September 18th from 5-8 PM – In October it’s every Thursday in celebration of Virginia Wine Month!
-Scheduling Hay Rides & Pumpkin Picking Day Trips for school and daycare groups.
Homestead Creamery milk available in the farm market at a.m. Fog. This is the real thing in those familiar glass bottles. It gets delivered fresh every Wednesday! And don’t forget the butter too!
5lb bag local potatoes $4
Oyster Mushrooms picked daily!!
Local Fresh Picked Apples
(sad to say peaches are done for the year)
Newly In…Sorgham Molasses from Kentucky. From all accounts GOOOODDDDD STUFF.
Silver King Corn until early-mid September. $5 per dozen.
Bi-Color corn still available & delicious.
FIREWOOD, it IS time for that already!!
You can always visit them on the web at www.amfog.net or call ’em at 540-456-7100
Rainfall totals as of 11:59 PM EDT Monday night:
–MONDAY High / Low at NCL-Nelson County Life Magazine in the Rockfish Valley : 87°/56° – RAIN : 0.00″ – YTD: 20.10″
–MONDAY High / Low at NCL-TWNF on Devil’s Knob @ Wintergreen Mountain : 74°/57° – RAIN 0.00″ – YTD: 28.18″
–MONDAY High / Low at NCL-Hatcreek Farm on Horseshoe Mountain @ Roseland, VA : 84°/57°– RAIN : 0.04″ – YTD: 26.56″
–MONDAY High / Low at NCL-Tiger Fuel @ Lovingston, VA : 86°/59° – RAIN : 0.00″ – YTD: 24.74″
–MONDAY High / Low at NCL-Delfosse Winery & Vineyard @ Faber, VA : 85°/62° – RAIN : 0.00″ EST – YTD: 20.25″
Don’t forget the Crutchfield Electronics Recycling truck that will be at the RVCC a week from this coming Saturday on September 6th from 9 AM to 3 PM. That’s the same day as the pancake breakfast. For this one day only, Crutchfield is waiving the normal small fee for you to get rid of most any electronics. Nelson County Life, The RVCC & Crutchfield have all teamed up to bring the truck to Nelson for this one special day. They tell me pretty much anything with a corded plug qualifies! Click on the Crutchfield image on the upper left of your screen under the cover photo to learn more.
5 Day Forecast Prediction For Hurricane Hanna
While much of the Labor Day weekend was focused on Hurricane Gustav, folks along the eastern seaboard of the U.S. have been keeping their eyes on what is now Hurricane Hanna. Hanna became a hurricane yesterday and is expected affect folks on the east coast. It’s a bit too far out to know where she will hit, but all projections appear to have her making landfall somewhere around the Georgia, South Carolina coast by the weekend. Of course that will be refined the closer we get, but certainly bears watching.
There’s plenty of tropical activity taking place right now including several new disturbances out in the Atlantic. It’s probable that some other than Hanna will affect the U.S. in the coming days. You can see them all by clicking here.
Between now and the weekend, look for mostly sunny days with hot tempertaure creeping back into the 90’s for afternoon highs. Thunderstorms are possible by Friday.
Eastern U.S. Regional Current Surface Map via wunderground
Looking 12-24 Hours Ahead
Your Nelson County Life custom area forecast including: Rodes Farm, Lovingston, Ivy, Ennis Mountain, Rockfish Gap.
TUESDAY: Sunny & Hot!
* Highs Valley: 89-92°
*On the mountains: 78-81°
*Winds: N-5 MPH becoming E in the afternoon
*OVERNIGHT: Clear & pleasant. Lows valley: 58-61° : Mountains: 59-62° : Winds: L & V
WEDNESDAY: Sunny and continued hot!
* Highs Valley: 91-94°
*On the mountains: 77-80°
*Winds: L & V
*OVERNIGHT: Clear & mild. Lows valley: 61-64° : Mountains: 57-60° : Winds: L & V
EXTENDED OUTLOOK
THU: Sunny 90/61
FRI: Partly Sunny T-Storm 78/61
SAT: Mostly Cloudy T-Storm 81/67
SUN: Partly Sunny 84/67
MON: Sunny 81/67
All mountain temperatures in the extended period roughly 10-15 degrees cooler than those listed in the valley for afternoon highs.
Have a great Tuesday!
SPECIAL WEATHER : Watching Explosive Tropical Development That May Affect Eastern. U.S.
REFRESH Nelson County Life Magazine HERE
While much of the attention is currently focused on Gustav, many interesting tropical developments are lining up with the potential to affect the Eastern U.S. over the coming week to 10 days. The current ones are listed below with links below each one to provide more information.
More as we know.
NCL
Caribbean Sat View
LABOR DAY WEATHER : Sunny & Nice : Rain Possible By Week’s End : Watching TS Hanna
REFRESH Nelson County Life Magazine HERE
Forecast By Tommy Stafford – Nelson County Life Magazine
REGULAR AUDIO WEATHER RETURNS TUESDAY MORNING
Photography By Ann Strober
Nelson County Life Magazine ©2008
Late Summer Butterfly
Nellysford, Virginia
Today’s weather and is brought to you exclusively by:
–
-Fall Mums – come get some color!
-Broccoli & Cabbage starts for your fall garden.
-Delfosse Wine Tasting is Thursday September 18th from 5-8 PM – In October it’s every Thursday in celebration of Virginia Wine Month!
-Scheduling Hay Rides & Pumpkin Picking Day Trips for school and daycare groups.
Homestead Creamery milk available in the farm market at a.m. Fog. This is the real thing in those familiar glass bottles. It gets delivered fresh every Wednesday! And don’t forget the butter too!
5lb bag local potatoes $4
Oyster Mushrooms picked daily!!
Local Fresh Picked Apples
(sad to say peaches are done for the year)
Newly In…Sorgham Molasses from Kentucky. From all accounts GOOOODDDDD STUFF.
Silver King Corn until early-mid September. $5 per dozen.
Bi-Color corn still available & delicious.
FIREWOOD, it IS time for that already!!
You can always visit them on the web at www.amfog.net or call ’em at 540-456-7100
Rainfall totals as of 11:59 PM EDT Sunday night:
–SUNDAY High / Low at NCL-Nelson County Life Magazine in the Rockfish Valley : 82°/70° – RAIN : 0.00″ – YTD: 20.10″
–SUNDAY High / Low at NCL-TWNF on Devil’s Knob @ Wintergreen Mountain : 68°/61° – RAIN 0.00″ – YTD: 28.18″
–SUNDAY High / Low at NCL-Hatcreek Farm on Horseshoe Mountain @ Roseland, VA : 80°/65°– RAIN : 0.04″ – YTD: 26.56″
–SUNDAY High / Low at NCL-Tiger Fuel @ Lovingston, VA : 80°/71° – RAIN : 0.00″ – YTD: 24.74″
–SUNDAY High / Low at NCL-Delfosse Winery & Vineyard @ Faber, VA : 79°/68° – RAIN : 0.00″ EST – YTD: 20.25″
Don’t forget the Crutchfield Electronics Recycling truck that will be at the RVCC a week from this coming Saturday on September 6th from 9 AM to 3 PM. That’s the same day as the pancake breakfast. For this one day only, Crutchfield is waiving the normal small fee for you to get rid of most any electronics. Nelson County Life, The RVCC & Crutchfield have all teamed up to bring the truck to Nelson for this one special day. They tell me pretty much anything with a corded plug qualifies! Click on the Crutchfield image on the upper left of your screen under the cover photo to learn more.
The second half of the Labor Day weekend turned out nice. Sunday skies remained cloudy for much of the day, but by late afternoon skies cleared and we were left with plenty of sunshine for the last day of August. We ended up with 3.11″ of rain for the month of August here in the gauge at Nelson County Life Magazine in the Rockfish Valley. Our high temperature last month was 99.3° on August 6th and a low of 50.9° on August 12th. Almost all of the rain recorded for the month fell in the last week of August. ON the mountain at NCL-Wintergreen Nature Foundation they ended the month with 3.68″ of rain and a monthly high of 83° on August 16th and a low of 49° on August 27th. Most other stations were right in the same ballpark with their monthly averages as far as valley and mountain temps and rain.
Today will have more sun than yesterday and temps will be seasonal in the mid 80’s for valley highs. The rest of the week looks dry until we get toward Friday when possible rains develop as a result of Hanna churning out in the Atlantic. You can read more about her below.
There’s plenty of tropical activity taking place right now including several new disturbances out in the Atlantic, one that may affect the eastern seaboard by next week. You can see them all by clicking here.
5 Day Forecast For Gustav
Gustav down in the Atlantic, continues to be headed on a track toward the the Gulf of Mexico.
Eastern U.S. Regional Current Surface Map via wunderground
Looking 12-24 Hours Ahead
Your Nelson County Life custom area forecast including: Schuyler, Wintergreen, Crozet, Montebello, Rockfish Gap.
MONDAY : LABOR DAY : Sunny and warm!
* Highs Valley: 85-88°
*On the mountains: 71-74°
*Winds: E-5 MPH
*OVERNIGHT: Clear & cool. Lows valley: 55-58° : Mountains: 50-53° : Winds: E-5 becoming N after midnight
TUESDAY: Sunny & Hot!
* Highs Valley: 89-92°
*On the mountains: 78-81°
*Winds: N-5 MPH becoming NE in the afternoon
*OVERNIGHT: Clear & pleasant. Lows valley: 61-64° : Mountains: 59-62° : Winds: NE-5 MPH
EXTENDED OUTLOOK
WED: Sunny 91/61
THU: Sunny 88/61
FRI: Partly Sunny T-Storm 83/63
SAT: Mostly Cloudy T-Storm 83/64
SUN: Partly Sunny 83/63
All mountain temperatures in the extended period roughly 10-15 degrees cooler than those listed in the valley for afternoon highs.
Have a great Labor Day!!
NELLYSFORD : UPDATE! : The “Skinny” On Vito’s Move to Old Grill 151 / Truslow’s
If you were out over the Labor Day weekend you may have seen some interesting activity at what once was one of the most popular food hangouts in the surrounding Nellysford area. Most recently it was Grill 151 which closed in May of last year. Before that it operated as Rockfish River Grill. We first told you about the closure here. Even back then there were rumors of Vito’s Italian Restaurant in Lovingston opening a second location in the building owned by Nellysford businessman Troy Campbell who also owns and operates Stoney Creek Auto next door.
As we first told you back in early 2007 Sal from Vito’s confirmed to us that he had plans to open a second restaurant location there if he could get everything worked out. “We want to open there and if we do we’ll have a large wine selection, we won’t be jacking up our prices and it’ll be the same menu folks have come to expect from our Lovingston location,” Sal told me last year. NCL has verified pending opening.
A variety of issues now seem to be worked out and apparently the one of Nelson’s favorite restaurants will be opening later this year in the fall as soon as renovation work is completed.
We will keep you posted!
NCL
A photo taken by, Yvette Stafford, of the old Truslow’s Auto Repair & Restaurant Sign as it stood in the mid to late 90’s.
Grill 151 was the most recent restaurant to operate from the old Truslow’s Restaurant location. It closed in May of 2007 and has been vacant since.
Roofers removing old shingles this past weekend from what will soon be Vito’s Italian Restaurant in Nellysford, scheduled to open this fall.
REFRESH Nelson County Life Magazine HERE
By Tommy Stafford
Nelson County Life Magazine ©2008
Nellysford, Virginia
MONTEBELLO : Annual Community Market Day
You know it’s getting close to Fall when they hold the Community Market in Montebello, Virginia. This year the weather cooperated perfectly and lots of folks turned out for great food, great music, and lots of arts and crafts.
Lots of arts and crafts were part of the annual event held at the fire department.
This youngster seems to be very interested in the old cowbell.
The only way to travel!
Montebello Fire & Rescue Members show off one of their fire trucks at the annual Community Market Day.
See you at next year’s market!
REFRESH Nelson County Life Magazine HERE
Photography By Tommy Stafford
Nelson County Life Magazine ©2008
Montebello, Virginia
Correction: Relay for Life meeting
Thank you Sheila Layton for pointing out the typo in the Relay for Life story in the September issue. It was co-organizer Susan Steven’s parents — not Sheila’s — who suffered from cancer. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused. Needless to say, both women’s lives have been affected by cancer, which is why they are planning this event.
For those interested in helping organize Nelson County’s first Relay for Life event, call 434-263-5305 or 434-277-9409 for information. Monthly meetings at Tye River Elementary School begin September 2 at 7pm, that is this Tuesday. The event is planned for June 20, 2009.
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