Whew. Thunderstorms rolled through the Piedmont this morning, announcing their arrival with brilliant flashes of light, followed in a few seconds by insistent sharp blasts of thunder. There was no point in attempting to stay under the eiderdown, and moderately caffeinated, we began our Sunday. We have talked about the Press Conference last week. Socotra […]

(The Compliance Department submitted a new diagram demonstrating full support to Building Back America Better. They explained that although things were better before the Government shut everything down, we need to get closer to net-zero emissions, putting on coats when the climate alters, changing our behavior to accommodate inexperienced Amazon Prime deliveries, and hoping none […]

First up, I need to stress how impressed Socotra Publishing was with Mr. Biden’s performance yesterday. That is sincere, and not some set-up to a bad joke. The Press Conference was a big deal, and it went well. There were those who were whispering that it would devolve into some sort of mass melt down […]

(Management regrets that outdoor single viewing of cherry blossoms with three and six foot social distancing, double-masked is prohibited this Spring for your enjoyment). The week certainly has been interesting. That is the only way we have survived this curious year down at the farm. “Stay Interested!” There is local politics, which I will not […]

Goodness, what a week! I could delve into the last event of public madness, but it is getting tiresome. The mass shooting in Atlanta last week seems to have been the act of a young white man who had some sexual problems he decided to act out with gunfire against young Korean women- mostly- though […]

(A Piedmont Environmental Council map depicts the Maroon (burgundy) and Greenwood (purple) utility-scale solar power plant sites proposed between the towns of Culpeper, Stevensburg and Lignum). It is cloudy this morning, so cloudy I couldn’t read the meter for the electricity. They say we will see the sun again in a few days. I got […]

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=vic+socotra+the+seventy+days&rh=n%3A133140011%2Cn%3A154606011&s=date-desc-rank&dc&qid=1615994153&rnid=2941120011&ref=sr_nr_n_8 Socotra House Publishing, LLC, is proud to announce the publication of our latest fulmination against injustice. “The Seventy Days” is another in a long line of caustic treatments of the life we are living at the moment. What happened during the last election- wait, I am not sure that word is permitted anymore. Let’s […]

Here in Virginia’s Piedmont, and that includes Ruckersville, we slipped past 0537 this morning to abandon Winter and awake in Spring. Poet Bill Wordsworth did something a while back that greets this particular dawn nicely. He called his attempt “Lines Written in Early Spring.” It starts like this: Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, […]

Socotra House is firm and resolute on matters pertaining to public health. We will not waver on the key points of the great national Emergency and all the factors of emergency rule. You can check our phone logs. The locational information stored at Verizon we were nowhere near anything on 06 January. It is available […]

(L-R: Ancient decorative thermometer, Eddie Layton’s scrimshaw tooth and that lovely girl the Japanese Navy presented in commemoration of heroic events by different peoples). Sorry. I got dragged into the past this week putting together a slide-show for the good people at the ex-USS Midway Library. The theme of the pitch was to be how […]