We are almost free for a little while. The 4th of July is coming up on Monday, and Washington is clearing out to get back to crucial District events and fireworks more limited in scope than in the Swamp to our north. There was one here in town before the break. We checked with our […]

He was back this magical morning. We don’t know about the precise identity of our avian friend, the large graceful shape with dark body plumage and the elegant white trailing feathers on the broad, strong wings. It seems bigger than the hawks we see, stronger and more martial in appearance than our baleful buzzards who […]

So, this is the Friday morning to try to close out another breathtaking week. Well, if it were actually before noon and you were breathing when it started. Anyway, that is the context for why Splash grunted as he sat down under the brilliant blue skies that seemed to have an unexpected density. The air […]

There is a lot of discussion about elections these days. Some of it happens around the Fire Ring at Refuge Farm, and none of it is approved for release because it could be used for partisan purposes. Some aspects of the issues do appear reasonable fr discussion. Our regular participant Loma used to live in […]

So, it was the Weekly Forecast meeting at the Fire Ring. It was a delicate one, since we are committed to good order and a certain amount of discipline while under the watchful eye of our attorney. Her role is keeping us out of trouble. Our commitment is to avoid all the partisan fury swirling […]

There is a fair amount of confused excitement out here in the Country. In fact, there is enough of it that Amanda, our watch-Attorney, was moved to get on the Chairman’s calendar to seek some relief. Apparently some of his Writer’s Section, attempting to bridge the wide gap in coverage, have been getting information from […]

Gentle Readers, There is some real excitement at Refuge Farm on this bright new week! A new book has been issued from Socotra House LLC! It is one that encompasses a real and poignant sea story coupled with the awful consequences of Atomic Age technology. It came to us in a curious manner, and it […]

There was a controversy that started when some of us were awake. It involved concerts held in the early 1970s, or events in a sea of the miasma of a half century of active life. There was a memory of a fellow named Rod Stewart, whose face framed with famous unruly hair appeared in the […]

Dear Gentle Readers, The Fire Ring is damp this morning and the Usual Suspects instead gathered in the Bunk House for fresh and richly brewed Chock Full o’ Nuts and idle banter. Splash provided one of the “Letters to the Editor” from the Coffee Company, which protested our misspelling a week or more ago, and […]

We have to do the Weather Report this week, and it looks a bit like the local forecast for last night. Maybe Thunderstorms, according to the Lady in Red on the flatscreen. She was taking about local weather in Washington, which we are supposed to believe is something universal, and ‘Maybe’ it is. There are […]