The Writer’s Section at Refuge Farm had been concerned with the President’s latest apparent impromptu declaration advocating the overthrow of the chief of the Russian government. That was the third in an interesting series of walk-backs from whoever is actually in charge of things at the White House. But violence was the topic of interest. […]

The word began swirling late yesterday. It was uncertain, as is all the “news” these days. In the version presented and disseminated through the West, it appeared a solution to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia may have lurched to what is possibly a solution that could save life and lessen that chance of use […]

(Belmont Farms Delivery Vehicle. A known Classic. Photo Belmont Farms). Splash was missing at the Morning Production Meeting. The Attorney was smiling. She had taken firm and decisive steps to remedy a growing problem. Thankfully, the problem had been resolved in a manner precluding a call to local law enforcement, which would have created a […]

We have been caught up in a minor struggle here in a lovely place that has experienced greater ones. Much greater. It caused the Chairman to actually draft a note to the local paper, marking his opposition to some of the industrial change being proposed on agricultural land in this part of the Virginia Piedmont. […]

They say Mr. Putin, also known by his nick-name “Vlad the Impaler” is headed to Brussels to talk to some people in the European Union and assure them that despite an open, armored force invasion of a country right next door, everything is fine and to just relax a little. We are apparently at a […]

We had a nice piece to run from our pal Arrias this morning that called out to history and the astonishing confluence of events in our world today. That minimized the urgency to put something into production for street circulation, and likewise lessened our Attorney’s attention, since she thought nothing was liable to escape into […]

Splash was up early. The last thing we caught from the news storm of Sunday was an ultimatum from the Kremlin- we used to say things like that- about what had been a pretty nice town on the Black Sea in Ukraine. It had been surrounded by some invading army, and as night settled in […]