Richmond's first outdoor festival of the season wants to put the rock back into your shamrocks in celebration of St. Patrick's Day with music, crafts, food and fun for all. On Saturday, March 17 gather your friends from your apartment in Richmond, VA and enjoy the St. Patricks Day fun, bring your designated driver.
Shamrock The Block is free to attend, with great food, live music all day and plenty o' green beverages for you to enjoy safely, so bring a designated driver. Last year, 25,000 of your neighbors poured into the streets of historic Shockoe Bottom in Richmond for this first outdoor event of the season. We've expanded the kid's activities, the band lineup and have more things to do and see.
Live music all day starting at noon. Here is the band line-up:
18th Street Stage
Downbeat Switch
Rosie Soul
Against Grace
4Play
Sleeper Agent
Farmer's Market Stage
The Lady Raiders
Rick and Rod
Triad
Chuck Shaffer Picture Show
Happy St. Patrick's Day from The Gardens at Twin Hickory.
The tech industry is a quickly expanding part of the economy in Richmond, VA with is already a city experiencing growth. Our great city is experiencing a growth spurt which is bringing in the professional class.
Relocating to Virginia? With everything else you need to think about, consider renting an apartment in Glen Allen, VA, a Richmond community.
Your daily commute is something you absolutely need to consider so location is a primary concern. The amount of time you spend on the road and your quality of life, the amount of time you can spend at home, is becoming more and more important. If you are looking to move to the Richmond area, it is important to find a home close to work, recreation, dining and hopping. For these reasons, consider The Gardens at Twin Hickory.
The Gardens at Twin Hickoryis a luxurious apartment community in Glen Allen, VA. The Gardens offer residents many community amenities as well as proximity to Richmond. Richmond is an excellent city for professionals who want to live where they work; contact The Gardens at Twin Hickory.
Searching for a new apartment is not easy, especially in a city like Richmond, VA where you have lots of options. Before you begin your apartment search, consider if you want a small apartment community or a larger one? Which apartment floor plan would work best for you? Think about which apartment amenities are important to you in an apartment community.
Here are some suggestions on how to simplify your apartment search.
Consider location
Try pinpointing an area in or around Richmond that you want to live near such as your workplace or your favorite neighborhood, and search within a 1-mile or 5-mile radius of that location for apartment communities. Apartments in Glen Allen, VA offer an easy commute and a wonderful community setting.
Use websites
Many apartment communities post floor plans and photos online. Looking at images of floor plans and apartment amenities and features may help you decide what communities you want to visit.
What don’t you like about where you live now?
When you make a list of what you don’t like about your apartment now, this will help you keep priorities top of mind. Don’t look at apartments that have those same features. Do you need more space? A larger kitchen? Do you need a community that allows pets? Do you need extra storage space? Or a pool? A well-kept fitness center?
Keep track
Make a spreadsheet that lists each community’s name, rent, amount of space, most important amenities, and any other important facts or notes.
Living in an apartment in Glen Allen, VAand wanting to get into the holiday spirit? Come to Richmond. Even though the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is best known for its beautiful blooming flowers, it is the perfect place to wander and get into the holiday spirit. During the holidays, the garden becomes a "Gardenfest of Lights" with over 500,000 red, green, pink, blue, purple, white and golden lights to get you in the holiday mood.
Beginning with a live band in the welcome center, there are 40 acres of lights for you to enjoy, a winter wonderland. At the Botanical Garden's you walk and enjoy, a better alternative than driving. With indoor and outdoor displays, you can enjoy the outdoors and warm up inside as well.
“The outdoor gardens are filled with unique Christmas lights from the hand-blown glass orbs to lights wrapped to resemble grapes dangling from arbors covering the walkways. As you journey along the paths you never know what you will find from magical fish jumping along the fountains edge to a pink flamingo or a pair of swans swimming in the water. If you are lucky, you just might catch a glimpse of a wolf as he sneaks silently through the forest of lights. If you feel like you are being watched, look a little closer and you may find that some of the trees are actually looking back at you.” (Virginia Wind)
You warm up by going back to springtime in the conservatory, a 63 foot tall room covered in live orchids, tropical flowers and greenery. The main attraction in the conservatory is the Christmas tree, decorated in the theme “Season of Wonder”.
Of course there is also a model train at the “Gardenfest of Lights”. The unique model train village and village is exceptionally beautiful and made entirely of plants and natural materials gleaned from the gardens!
Don’t forget to bring your kids to the Children’s Garden where there is a kid-friendly tree house. There is also hot chocolate and snacks, or visit the Tea House or the Garden Café which are open for dinner during the festival of lights.
Happy Halloween from The Gardens. It is candy corn season, and you will see and eat plenty of them through the remainder of the fall.
Candy corn candies are sold by the bag from the close of Labor Day weekend to the end of the fall, is a long-standing trademark of the season.
According to the National Confectioner’s Association:
One serving of candy corn contains only about 140 calories with each candy corn packing a walloping 3.57 calories
More than 35 million pounds of candy corn will be produced this year. That equates to nearly 9 billion pieces — enough to circle the moon nearly 21 times if laid end-to-end.
Well, for all of you celebrating the holiday with friends in your apartments in Richmond, VA we have a fun candy corn recipe collection for honoring this tried and true Halloween staple.
Avoid the tricksters and enjoy some teats, you deserve it!
Halloween Bark
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups broken small pretzels
leftover Halloween candy, broken into pieces
1/3 cup craisins
1 1/2 pounds white chocolate, broken into squares
2 cups candy corn
orange and brown sprinkles
Directions:
Spread the pretzels and craisins and candy evenly onto a lightly greased small baking sheet.
Melt chocolate in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water, or in the microwave, stirring frequently until melted.
Drizzle chocolate with a spoon over the pretzels and candy, spreading the top flat to coat evenly.
Top with candy corn and sprinkles.
Let cool until firm.
Break into pieces and store in an airtight container
Candy Corn Martini
Ingredients
1 cup vodka
3/4 cups candy corn, plus more for garnish
1/4 cup butterscotch schnapps
Ice
Instructions:
Pour the vodka into a measuring glass or container and add the candy corn. Let infuse for about 3 hours.
In a shaker with ice, add 1 cup candy corn-infused vodka, 1/4 cup butterscotch schnapps, shake well.
Pour mixture into a martini glass with candy corn on the bottom.
Only 11 days until the 43rd annual Richmond Oktoberfest! Be German for two nights with genuine Bavarian Oktoberfest entertainment including both, traditional and modern dance music, Bavarian Folk Dancing, and many other surprises. This party is in Richmond on October 21st and 22nd .
This is the oldest and best Oktoberfest celebration in Virginia; patterned after Munich’s world famous Oktoberfest, the Richmond Oktoberfest combines a great party with the preservation of German heritage.
As usual there will be a large selection of typical German Oktoberfest foods, such as sizzling bratwurst, knockwurst, pork, chicken, potato salad, potato pancakes, sauerkraut, and landjaeger. So, eat authentic German food and drink a variety of German and domestic beers. This year we feature German Oktoberfest beer from Warsteiner, domestic Oktoberfest beer from Samuel Adams, and Miller Light, as well as alcohol free beer, as well as domestic and German wines. In addition we serve water and many of your favorite soft drinks.
There will be two great bands each evening, a local brass band to start off the program, our feature band, the Washington Continentals, who play the finest “Schunkelmusic”, and dance music for all ages. Dance to polkas, waltzes, folk dancing, American standards and more. Along with good German food and pastries; beer and wine, For those with a sweet tooth we are proud to have Reineke Bakery, which offers a large selection of favorite German pastries and bread.
And don’t forget the shopping opportunities for all things German, as well as the Kinder Korner with face painting and other children's activities. Everything combines to create Bavarian style "Gemütlichkeit".
The 4th Annual Shockoe-on-the–Half Festival in Richmond is a celebration of oysters, and music. This Saturday, get out of your apartments in Richmond and have some fun with friends, oysters, music and neighbors. This is a fun festival.
One of Richmond’s hottest rock, jazz, hip-hop and funk bands, Proverbial, will entertain with live music. They are beginning their East Coast tour in Richmond.
The food vendor’s plan all year for this festival. There will be exciting varieties of oysters prepared almost every way imaginable. Whether you like them raw, steamed, on pizza, frittered, fried, or stewed there will be plenty of ways to eat them. For those who want “turf” rather than “surf”, we offere beef barbeque sandwiches, hotdogs and hamburgers.
These days, real estate brokers are dealing with declining home sales and would have their clients believe that there is no better time than the present to buy a home. Prices are down and mortgage rates are at all-time lows.
Unfortunately for the brokers, many clients are not persuaded by that logic. Instead, in increasing numbers, they are choosing to rent — unconvinced that the housing market has yet hit bottom.
With apartments in Glen Allen, VA in fabulous locations and offering amenities that can’t be found in homes, renting is a great option for many. There is also a broad mix of tenants: fewer young transient residents and more families and empty-nesters that no longer have homeownership on their wish list.
Nationally, vacancy rates for apartments are projected to drop to 4.6 this year, down from 5% currently. “Anything below 5% is a landlord’s market,” said Walter Molony, a spokesman for the National Association of Realtors.
At The Gardens in Richmond, VA we are pet friendly, but did you know that pets can actually help you heal? Research shows that pets can provide physical health benefits and keep you emotionally healthy.
Not only do pets keep you connected to the world, they keep you connected to other pet people. While walking a pet obviously provides exercise, it has been determined that it is better exercise than walking alone. Pets keep you social. Think of all the conversations that start out on your walks with your dog that would not have otherwise begun. Pets offer a chance to meet people, to make friends.
But, beyond being a pet, service dogs offer an even additional support system. In addition to seeing and hearing dogs, people with other handicaps can benefit. Those with pets are approached more often for conversation than those who are alone.
Therefore, blind and wheelchair-bound kids with dogs get approached in public just for social interaction significantly more so than those without dogs. Even Alzheimer’s patients have been shown to be more responsive when dogs are around.
If you live in a house or apartment in Richmond, VA, the Virginia Department of Health urges residents to take precautions as they work to recover from Hurricane Irene.
Hurricanes, especially if accompanied by a tidal surge or flooding, can contaminate the public water supply or residential wells. Contaminated drinking water or unrefrigerated foods may cause illness.
Dispose perishable foods that have been without refrigeration for more than two hours. Fish, poultry, meat, eggs, milk and other dairy products, and leftovers are especially high risk. When in doubt, throw it out.
When power returns, inspect the food in your freezer. If there are still ice crystals in the package it is probably safe to refreeze. Use a thermometer to check the temperature and if your freezer remained under 40 F, the food is probably safe to refreeze. Otherwise, it is probably not safe. When in doubt, throw it out.
If you have medication that requires refrigeration but you lost power, check with the pharmacy on the label. A pharmacist can advise you if it can still be used.
Empty outdoor containers, tarps and other items around your home or apartment which create breeding sites for mosquitoes. Use repellant when outside.
Do not allow children to play in floodwater areas. Wash children's hands frequently (always before meals), and do not allow children to play with floodwater-contaminated toys that have not been disinfected. You can disinfect toys using a solution of one cup of bleach in five gallons of water.
Avoid using candles, especially around small children. Use battery-powered lamps and flashlights.
Five community water systems are under boil water advisories:
Isle of Wight County: Rushmere Subdivision and Carrsville
Hanover County: Spring Meadows and Meadow Gate
King George County: Presidential Lakes Section 14
Greensville County Water and Sewer Authority: Jarratt
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Only 11 days until the 43rd annual Richmond Oktoberfest! Be German for two nights with genuine Bavarian Oktoberfest entertainment including both, traditional and modern dance music, Bavarian Folk Dancing, and many other surprises. This party is in Richmond on October 21st and 22nd . 
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