Editor’s Note: Refuge Farm was awash in light gray fog as the Writer’s Section expressed desire and lethargy just before dawn. We had hoped the grand Planetary Alignment would be visible around 45-minutes before the Piedmont dawn. Instead, we got cool nondescript gray tendrils of fog across the south-eastern pastures. Our media friends say we may have another chance tomorrow, so Marlow contributes this astute observation from his Coastal Empire, where his “living is easy,” even in an azure hue…

– Vic

(Summertime) 101 (Blues)

That’s what our thermometers said to us yesterday for several hours. Everything was still. Everything. No animals stirring, birds flying, flies buzzing, skeeters biting, cars driving, folks walking, or people in the park playing.

Curtains were drawn, window shades pulled down, Venetian blinds shuttered to ease a/c system’s efforts.

During health checks on outdoor neighborhood animals, the air was not just heavy but felt and tasted dry, dusty, and oven broiled.

Would that we could capture, store, and ship it across the pond!

Meanwhile, our allies in Europe, also facing record setting high temps this summer – Paris saw 99 degrees early this week, are faced with a looming season of “heat or eat” given the war in Ukraine. Like the US’s inability to reduce gas pump prices, there’s no off-the-shelf social program to fix this over there with income-boosting stimmie checks or government funded drive up energy care package distribution centers.

So, no American Lend-Lease “passing gas” to the Euro zone is coming. Big, bad, dusty, dirty but ever warm and locally available coal will ride to the rescue of the Euro zone bunny huggers.

Here’s to 2022’s Summertime101 Blues!

PS Dirty secret — last year, 25% of Germany’s energy was derived from coal.

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