This would be the Weather Report for this week. It slides over tomorrow’s celebration of foolishness and the real transition from one sort of weather to another. Lions and lambs will frolic in April, and we will get warmer. That is an immutable change with which we are all familiar. There is a lot going […]

The glib words run out this morning, and I am tempted to run along with them. I heard the Vice President wasn’t precisely in charge of the border “situation,” whatever that is. The President seemed to be adamant about that the other day. But the “situation” on the border is “more complex” and one for […]

Whew. Thunderstorms rolled through the Piedmont this morning, announcing their arrival with brilliant flashes of light, followed in a few seconds by insistent sharp blasts of thunder. There was no point in attempting to stay under the eiderdown, and moderately caffeinated, we began our Sunday. We have talked about the Press Conference last week. Socotra […]

(The Compliance Department submitted a new diagram demonstrating full support to Building Back America Better. They explained that although things were better before the Government shut everything down, we need to get closer to net-zero emissions, putting on coats when the climate alters, changing our behavior to accommodate inexperienced Amazon Prime deliveries, and hoping none […]

First up, I need to stress how impressed Socotra Publishing was with Mr. Biden’s performance yesterday. That is sincere, and not some set-up to a bad joke. The Press Conference was a big deal, and it went well. There were those who were whispering that it would devolve into some sort of mass melt down […]

(Management regrets that outdoor single viewing of cherry blossoms with three and six foot social distancing, double-masked is prohibited this Spring for your enjoyment). The week certainly has been interesting. That is the only way we have survived this curious year down at the farm. “Stay Interested!” There is local politics, which I will not […]

Goodness, what a week! I could delve into the last event of public madness, but it is getting tiresome. The mass shooting in Atlanta last week seems to have been the act of a young white man who had some sexual problems he decided to act out with gunfire against young Korean women- mostly- though […]

(A Piedmont Environmental Council map depicts the Maroon (burgundy) and Greenwood (purple) utility-scale solar power plant sites proposed between the towns of Culpeper, Stevensburg and Lignum). It is cloudy this morning, so cloudy I couldn’t read the meter for the electricity. They say we will see the sun again in a few days. I got […]

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=vic+socotra+the+seventy+days&rh=n%3A133140011%2Cn%3A154606011&s=date-desc-rank&dc&qid=1615994153&rnid=2941120011&ref=sr_nr_n_8 Socotra House Publishing, LLC, is proud to announce the publication of our latest fulmination against injustice. “The Seventy Days” is another in a long line of caustic treatments of the life we are living at the moment. What happened during the last election- wait, I am not sure that word is permitted anymore. Let’s […]

Here in Virginia’s Piedmont, and that includes Ruckersville, we slipped past 0537 this morning to abandon Winter and awake in Spring. Poet Bill Wordsworth did something a while back that greets this particular dawn nicely. He called his attempt “Lines Written in Early Spring.” It starts like this: Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, […]