This would normally be a great day to puff up and start re-hashing some of the news of just the last couple days. Or hours, if one was particular about the topic. Since we have already been warned that expressing opinions about this in the retired/annuitant community could subject us to criminal charges, we naturally […]

A challenging morning on all fronts under clear chill Piedmont skies. The latest thrust of arctic air has visited, with the little sensor outside the kitchen window reading an even dozen at first reading: “12.” Splash was aware of the cold front, and had established a warm spot indoors. Except for that small gap at […]

(The Bi-Partisan Infrastructure Bill advances from Congress for signing at the White House). We tend to be a little contemplative on Sunday mornings. You know how that goes. Saturday nights express relief that another week has passed without disaster. Or at least complete disaster. We were arguing about numbers this morning, but not in a […]

It was a good night’s sleep at Refuge Farm. That said, it took two layers of eiderdown to maintain the bubble of warmth in our beds. It was a struggle to maintain warmth against cold. Splash let out something that sounded like a giggle. Looking over at the little weather monitor in the great room, […]

(USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) in her last visit to Hong Kong. She is now being towed from her berth at Bremerton, WA, to Texas to be dismantled and turned into razor blades, or whatever they do with parts of these grand old ladies these days. She was a good ship.) There was a sort of […]

Editor’s Note: We are awash with projects in the Writer’s Section at Refuge Farm. The Chairman is sensitive to the vitriol in our public lives, something previously unknown in the seven decades of his life as a citizen. An active participant in some of the history of these times, it is hard for him to […]

Gentle Readers, the Writers Section is out of sorts this morning. The bitter cold icicle driving south into the Nation’s east coast is implacable. The Lady in Red had her say, predicting a Nor’Easter to roll in over the next few days. More snow? She claims her models indicate it will happen to the I-95 […]

Author’s Note: I have attempted to be quiet about the pandemic. There has been enough chaos in our response to a virus, and an input from another viral outbreak seemed not to be helpful. But there have been differences. I remembered a strange time that was not mixed up in the partisan acrimony of an […]

It is a holiday today. The images from the flat screen tell us that is a good thing, since many people who would be otherwise be traveling to work will not. The snow and ice in our part of what used to be a Southern State will impede some commemorations, but it is one of […]

Morning! This is a day that starts with the temperatures hovering stubbornly in the upper teens. Skies gray, rippling with inadvertent menace. The Lady in Red from the flat screen says the freezing rain will arrive around noon. Morning is thus filled with small chores- more wood, of course, and the periodic glance from the […]