MapDescription automatically generated Locating: Otsego Ski Club was just east of town. West ten miles was the cabin on a little lake in the woods near tiny Elmira. Two miles to M-131 and north past Boyne Mountain, big-time Michigan skiing, and eventual to Petoskey, where Dad was Mayor pro tem and I thought I was […]

Some of the crowd around the Fire Ring at Refuge Farm were wearing shorts. The Lady in Red on the flatscreen in the bunk house had done an ominous turn in her weather reporting, saying that the relatively cool Spring was going to transition into a weekend with temperatures in the 90s. Splash was wearing […]

It was a glorious morning in Virginia’s Piedmont. There had been a full moon in a clear sky, one filled with celestial mystery. There was an argument of unusual intensity for the early morning as the circle around the Fire Ring discussed it. Some called the illumination in this burgeoning month of growth the “Flower […]

The Writer’s Section was scrambling this morning. The skies were bright, some of the humidity had passed with the rain clouds that swept up. The Weather Report we do for the Chairman needed some work to connect all the dots that don’t seem to actually point anywhere. There is still enormous concentration on the Special […]