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So the crumbs showed up yesterday in the downsizing effort at The Farm. Many were unseen for several years. There was the Marylin Monroe collection, all sorts of gimcracks and gee-jaws.There was enough of her to sequester in her own stack down in the garage to help the estate auction team when they arrive at […]
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Editor’s Note: Marlow’s piece this morning hit some issues from yesterday dead on. At Refuge Farm, we were downsizing. We apportioned piles of furniture, old art and memories to their destination stacks: “Auction,” “Kids,” “All that Military Stuff.” It was both fun and wrenching seeing things our great-grandparents made and held important. Positively wrenching, in […]
Morning, Gang! It is a pleasant morning following a brilliant Piedmont dawn. Our version of your wakening ritual featured a reprise of yesterday’s events in the “Downsizing” process, and a quick visit to a souvenir acquired 32 years ago. As you can read, complete with an ancient typo in black china-marker, it was on the […]
Jim Geraghty at National Review framed it correctly: if the US President believes we are on the precipice, that we face nuclear “Armageddon,” then that deserves an address to the American people, from the Oval Office, with all the seriousness that can possibly be mustered. Geraghty also raises the proper follow-on issue: Ukraine is not […]
(USS Forrestal (CV-59) greets a happy couple at Mayport, Florida prior to a Med deployment). Well, it wasn’t. The long stream of gray ships steaming across components of the gray ocean continued after the Soviet Union collapsed. It wasn’t even our personal last cruise, since there was another to follow on a ship assigned to […]
So, we have drawn down the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to the lowest point in forty years. Now, we are looking for the emergency that we did it for. There seem to be a lot of emergencies these days, a virtual plurality of pesky problems. We posed questions around the Fire Ring. It is a […]
We were working on the Weather Report for the week, which is a bit dizzying. The remnants of Hurricane Ian are still hanging atop our Farm. The Lady in Red says they will start being swept away this afternoon, and maybe the sun will shine for the first time in a week. DeMille looked at […]
Author’s Note: “What goes down must come up” as they say in American stock markets and exchanges . . . or . . . as the card game unsnarkily says “Go Fish!” Permit your author this brief island return to talk about a shipwreck as a metaphor for what may be on our surface-search radar […]