(The Rufadora Bar in daylight. It didn’t look this bright when we usually saw it). Author’s Note: A Philippines phrase for the ages? “How much would that window cost if it was broken?” Or one of the most famous barroom public address pages in Naval Aviation history….”Would the Command Duty Officer of the USS Oriskany […]

Editor’s Note: We suspected there might be a reaction from others who have strode in bold and liberated step down Magsaysay Boulevard in Olongapo City, Republic of the Philippines. Some may quibble about the before and after visions of that marvelous city before the paving of the street and after that event. There was a […]

There is some stuff going on. The small groups of people who still communicate around the media streams are concerned. Mr. Trump made an effort in the Mid-Term Melt Down, but some of the red press is now advocating we “move on.” I am interested in it for the various reasons. The Blues have a […]

12 November 2003 Bought the Ticket- Let’s Ride! A picture containing textDescription automatically generated (Motto of the US State of Georgia. We all may be needing it shortly). Sorting it out is a challenge, isn’t it? There are challenges all around. Here at home, we still don’t know the composition of the Future. The American […]

We know the new name for the day, but there are the remnants of a hurricane darkening the Piedmont sky above and the rain from the south is a uniform steady soak. There has been talk about early November weather of late amid trouble around the world. The anniversary of the wreck of ore-carrier Edmund […]

Morning, Folks! There is some excitement this morning as the impact of the ambiguous Mid-Term Election is converted into reaction. The deck appears remarkably divided and consequences are still being determined. There was a report that the government might be looking at Mr. Elon Musk about his business activities, so there is an air of […]

Since some of us in the Bunk House have certain personal requirements to rise in the middle of the night, there was some general consensus on the events of yesterday. General agreement was that there were grounds for some elation on both ends of the spectrum. Not so much in the middle. So, we have […]

VOTE! If you haven’t, think about going out to the polling station and do the Deed. Vote. They don’t call it a “civic duty” for nothing. We live, at the moment, in Winston, Virginia. The Chairman’s Farm is a small component of two former great plantations in Virginia’s rolling verdant Piedmont country. The junction of […]

Arrias chimed in this morning with some basic civics. We feel is extremely useful, since the talk about “democracy” being threatened in America is really only appropriate if you don’t know how it works. The Founders of our nation- the majority of them- fought a king to ensure matters of public interest were discussed before […]

02 October 2002 (This would have been an image of the “shape” of a weapon of mass destruction. It was a US Air Force picture, declassified in 1960, but unable to load due to local connectivity issues at The Farm). You can see from the date above the title that this outing (Morning? Afternoon?) is […]