It was a big week, filled with the new and the old all mixed together. A quick trip to Northern Virginia was the big deal, riding up as a passenger and driving back, in command of my own machine, rolling through what was familiar and is now changing to accommodate new needs. Then the vaccination […]

Yesterday had a couple challenges. The Panzer, my trusty 2010 Mercedes GLK350, rests quietly down in the farm yard. It’s return to the farm amid the fading COVID panic and the sudden rising gasoline crisis had some interesting moments. There are other issues appearing on the “to do” list, but getting the 70 miles to […]

Just a quick note, Gentle Readers. Refuge Farm is now 100% in compliance with whatever that stuff the Government insists is just fine for injection and won’t manipulate that genetic stuff that has happily coursed our veins the last sixty or seventy years. Moderna is the version administered and observed here. Several fellow compliant citizens […]

We seem to be in a place of change as a nation, and as a people. The phrase above has been in the news, of late. Being a member of the “senior” category of citizens- wait, sorry, that is probably another of those words that is not acceptable to many of these times- I think […]

Oh, no! Not again! Editor’s Note: This article appeared in the famous USS Midway Library’s Scuttlebutt. There has been a concerted effort to find relics from a small part of that wonderful ship’s history and get them back into the context from which they came. LTJG Winky is part of it, since he was a […]

Just thought I would drop a line to give you some good news for a change. The Plague that has devastated the planet has been vanquished! Life is going back to normal! I had a premonition that something was up when I crutched myself into the health complex yesterday. There were these white things, rectangles […]

First of all, it’s not Mexico’s Independence Day, which is actually celebrated in September sometime. This cool day commemorates the Mexican Army’s victory over Napoleon III’s French forces at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. We were busy doing other things up here at the time, and Confederate forces were occupying the Farm. As you […]

(This image from the Times-Exponent shows what was planned for the Rapidan Front area of our county just south of Refuge Farm. It was proposed as 1,800 acres of black “green” glass, which means it is “renewable” in that it must be replaced every thirty years or so.) We are fighting again here in Culpeper […]

(Still image from CIA recruiting ad welcomed across the country, demonstrating we are all either what, or what not, is needed for duty in a complex and challenging world). It was a delightful country morning in the Piedmont. The tree that was falling toward the fence and the lower pasture gate has been handled adroitly […]

The Piedmont of Virginia is lethargically casting off the artificial swaddle of the Holy Day, and getting back to work with enthusiasm and vibrant energy. Or something. We hosted a splendid luncheon with the Russians on a lovely Sunday afternoon. A superb roast, dynamic mashed potatoes, broccoli with delightful piquant cheese sauce, and fresh vegetable […]