It is always a bit of a shock to see the big machine come fully alive after the holidays. We all knew it was coming but the abrupt nature of the change is dramatic. There is- or was- some uncertainty about who was going to determine the tempo of events coming out of the New […]

Splash got up early this morning and was barking directions at an assortment of independent contractors in a variety of costumes. This holiday is finally showing signs of passage. There are birds of several species, Maids and Lords, an assortment of rings in precious metal and two stoic milk-cows. He has dealt nicely with The […]

We here on the balcony at Big Pink are still having issues with what year we are in. There is general agreement, of course, but our index fingers still have issues. Not so with those eleven pipers down in the parking lot, who are piping away like crazy. They frightened the leaping Lords and the […]

They say when you are over the hill you pick up speed. Maybe that is true. Certainly, the visibility improves as you roll over the crest. Some of us are over the great divide of the Holidays. Kevin McCarthy is not, at least until noon when the new Congress is sworn in. One of the […]

You might be done with it, the holiday part, anyway. Up here in DC they don’t go back to work until tomorrow. The position of those who intend to utilize the Twelve Days of Christmas for relaxed social norms is firm. The second day of the calendar year is also utilized to permit holiday casual libation regardless of […]

(Earnie Hemingway, second from left, celebrates the New Year with pal Gary Cooper in the year some of us were born, 1951. They are moving gradually forward in that line in Cuba at Havana’s Club Floridita. Things would transition to occur suddenly once they got a table inside). Just a quick note this morning, since […]

The Letter-Writer’s Manual For Every Occasion By E. A. Foley We wrote about stacks of stuff yesterday, since one of those stacks turned up a long-ago letter, neatly written in precise cursive script. A pal saw it and marveled at the craftsmanship in that social discipline, one that many shared nearly a hundred years ago. […]

This is the 6th Day of Christmas, which is enforced only because Splash does not want to be accused of wasting this curious week between holidays. In order to preserve early drinking by retaining this as a “holiday” edition, Management has informed us that a simple reference to Six Geese A’ Laying will suffice to […]

For those of us who refuse to give up the celebration, there was a huddle last night out on the Balcony at Big Pink. We got to the bottom of one of the bottles of beneficial Spirits procured over on Fort Myer yesterday. It is the 5th Day of Christmas for the diehards, and provision of […]

We looked around this morning at the usual morning Salty Coffee Klatch. There had been the consumption of the last dregs of Belmont Farms moonshine late on Three French Hens Days. There are supply chain issues about that matter. From here out, we will have to swoop over to Fort Myer to investigate provision of […]