The new inflation numbers are out this morning and higher than expected. It is only a decimal point number, and not advantageous to those in power, so we expect not to hear much about it. “Worst in 40 Years!” didn’t get much play last week. We are on edge due to the looming election. We […]

So the crumbs showed up yesterday in the downsizing effort at The Farm. Many were unseen for several years. There was the Marylin Monroe collection, all sorts of gimcracks and gee-jaws.There was enough of her to sequester in her own stack down in the garage to help the estate auction team when they arrive at […]

Morning, Gang! It is a pleasant morning following a brilliant Piedmont dawn. Our version of your wakening ritual featured a reprise of yesterday’s events in the “Downsizing” process, and a quick visit to a souvenir acquired 32 years ago. As you can read, complete with an ancient typo in black china-marker, it was on the […]

(USS Forrestal (CV-59) greets a happy couple at Mayport, Florida prior to a Med deployment). Well, it wasn’t. The long stream of gray ships steaming across components of the gray ocean continued after the Soviet Union collapsed. It wasn’t even our personal last cruise, since there was another to follow on a ship assigned to […]

So, we have drawn down the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to the lowest point in forty years. Now, we are looking for the emergency that we did it for. There seem to be a lot of emergencies these days, a virtual plurality of pesky problems. We posed questions around the Fire Ring. It is a […]

We were working on the Weather Report for the week, which is a bit dizzying. The remnants of Hurricane Ian are still hanging atop our Farm. The Lady in Red says they will start being swept away this afternoon, and maybe the sun will shine for the first time in a week. DeMille looked at […]