8-4-2010 ETA — Blueberry season is long gone in Northern Virginia. Mark your calendars to start looking into local farms next May! Hooray! It is blueberry picking season again! We picked 10 pounds Saturday morning to restock our freezer and are still eating fresh berries by the handful. Everyone I know who visits seems to be […]
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Razzle Dairy Bar 13 Fairfax St SE (map it) Leesburg, VA 20175–3617 (703) 777‑1420 A visit to the Razzle Dairy Bar can complete a sticky summer afternoon or evening, and is sometimes just the thing to shake up a winter routine. Razzle is located in an often overlooked corner of the Virginia Village shopping plaza […]
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Happy belated Thanksgiving! We snagged a great book from the library recently! In A Plump and Perky Turkey (written by Teresa Bateman and illustrated by Jeff Shelley) the turkeys all skip town before Thanksgiving and the town-folks try to trick them back, but (after pages of engaging illustrations and rhymes that please me) they end […]
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Campaign for Loudoun’s Future recently sponsored a local foods and farms celebration. American Flatbread, a new restaurant in Ashburn which uses some local ingredients for their pizzas, helped to host the event — which made it into The Post and Leesburg Today. The kids and I stopped by the event, but I was too wiped out by […]
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335 East Market Street (map it) Leesburg, VA 20176 A place for my kids to play and an efficient drive through are the best marketing a fast food restaurant can offer me. This McDonald’s has an outdoor play place. It’s a bit dingy and needs some updates, but my kids don’t care. We recently met some […]
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Caribou Coffee Potomac Station 647 Potomac Station Drive Leesburg, VA 20176 (703) 669‑2291 This coffee shop has a little corner with toys. I tend to rave about this corner too much and inflate people’s expectations so please lower yours a notch after reading this entry. The best thing about this little corner with toys is […]
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20035 Ashbrook Commons Pl #194 Ashburn, VA 20147 (map it) (703) 723‑3065 I’ll spare you a repeat of my comments on Starbucks, but wanted to highlight that we have drive through coffee here in Loudoun County. I love drive-thru coffee!
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531 East Market Street Leesburg, VA 20175 (map it) (703) 443‑9251 (other Starbucks locations) Many folks have opinions about Starbucks. Here’s my two cents: They have a standardized temp that they steam milk for little kids — much cooler than milk for adults — but still a special treat at a reasonable price. The location on Market […]
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