There is some unsettling stuff flying around this morning. You know, the Presidential spokesperson is in a tough position, and I feel for her. The COVID thing is tiresome now, not that it wasn’t before, and unaccompanied minor kids are being held in the same facilities that have been used for a decade. I am […]

As you are unfortunately aware, it was project time down on the farm in Virginia’s lovely Piedmont. We had sunshine for nearly two days, and naturally the residents here were stunned and disoriented. Thankfully we are back to normal this morning under gray skies spurting chunks of ice and unfrozen rain this morning, so we […]

There is a modest level of activity at the farm on a luscious golden morning in Virginia’s Piedmont. A closet door had opened and a flood of ancient clothing slumped from “in” to “out.” Outside it was still cold, part of that amazing and memorable cold spell that swept across the Southwest and froze Texas […]

There has been a lot of recent talk about something we have discussed with some energy for a very long time. Can’t get away from it. The content of that pigment in our epidermal layer is a determining feature of every momentary issue. It drives all functions of interaction. It is a symbol richer than […]

It has been a quiet week, or at least it is down on Refuge Farm. The political internals in the Swamp have the people responsible concentrating on each other. They can get back to the citizens when they get a chance. Down in the country, we have blue skies this morning with fresh chill breeze. […]

Yesterday was a day all its own. We could talk about the screaming school board up in Fairfax County. That was fun, what with one of them castigating parents for “wanting their babysitters back.” There is other COVID-related stuff going on, of course. And politics. It seems to me that the plague panic will peter […]

Morning! There is a certain delay in things this morning. It is a common thing these days. You know, National History, Public Health, Climate, Cold & Warmth and Continuing Emergencies. That sort of stuff. All of them in strange confluence. Before I could even get to that I had a problem of transportation. Not the […]

(Old Style Medical Emergency). Had a chat this morning with pals in Colorado and down on the Chesapeake. The former reported -15F, with a slow increase to maybe -5 later in the morning. Chesapeake reports rain and much “warmer” in the 30s, which is about where we are in Virginia’s gentle-climed Piedmont. The nice Lady […]

So, the Saturday Zoom call got squashed by the ice storm out in Pac NORWEST. We rescheduled for Sunday, eager to talk about what happened on the Hill, but it turned out to be not much. They tried to impeach the former President again, or they actually did impeach him- again- and he was acquitted. […]

(Our modest Virginia snow and ice. More to come today. I could show you a picture of the truck-wreck, but I think this is illustrative enough, you know?) Oh, I know things are not going to amount to much, but the icy rain in Texas contributed to dozens of accidents. The nice lady in Red […]