Strange times, aren’t they? We were worried about atomic war in Europe at the beginning of last week. Thursday, the Saudis claimed the Iranians were going to strike targets in the Kingdom, and the North Koreans continued to fire rockets to ocean areas around their cousins to the South. Naturally that sort of news may […]

Interesting start to a new month that ends the summer of campaigning. There is all that stuff flying around in the Wide World and the chaos of the American general election cycle. There was a technical challenge in just attempting to compile it all down on The Farm. We transferred the old “last backup” from […]

(This was the big deal yesterday- the cover to the manuscript of “Last Cruise.” It includes the teaser description for the back cover, a semi-dramatic symbolic image of a mighty warship steaming in the vicinity of an imaginary symbol of an implacable foe for the front. We think we got it complete, after the initial […]

It is a little disoriented here at Refuge Farm. Some boxes were opened down in the office attached to the garage spaces. There were images that had been unseen in twenty or thirty years. Some we had never seen. Is there one that includes Jane, a wife of some twenty years? As a matter of […]

(OK, this is almost a perfect circle in technology. The photo that went along with the original “Letter from Kiev” was clipped out of something, we think, and Xeroxed with a paperclip still imaged at the top of the hand-written block printing used to create the original Letter. The place has changed names, from “Kiev” […]

Marlow gave us some verse this morning. It was useful crafting of the Political fervor of the moment against the celebration of the changing season. There is less than two weeks to go on how the next two years will flow in our legislative state. He helped set the iambic pentameter tone for this gray […]

(A view across the Potomac River. Like the Yalu, it conceals all sorts of stuff on the other side of the water). It is difficult to look across a river and divine the truth. That is what the words say in what appears to be a fragment of a document written in a year long […]

(Rufus, Vic and Frags in person at Army-Navy Country Club in Arlington). A remarkable aggregation of the Old Salts gathered yesterday up in Arlington. It is a traditional meeting of a venerable veteran’s organization: The Naval Intelligence Professionals. It is a remarkable group of people, who celebrate service in the oldest member of the American […]

(Country bandwidth issues precluded transfer of this USN shot from USS Midway’s (CV-41) CVIC in 1980. It is the Emergency Action Message Team who wore the lanyard and carried the pouch, 24 hours a day 365 days per year. It has been in a pouch of its own the last thirty years or so, carefully […]

Another exciting week in the world we share! OK, so we have the continuing NATO nuclear exercise- the one that started a couple weeks ago- and the Russian forces announcing their own version with an ICBM launch from a ballistic missile sub way up there where the waters are cold. The messaging is a little […]