(Still life of an improvised Spring country salad , featuring the first thing to emerge from the garden. Photo Socotra).

It is often far easier in this business to simply leave the dead on the field and move on, day-by-day. Still, a shred of obligation to truth remains with the vestiges of honor, and periodically it comes time to own up to mistakes and bury the departed with honor.

I was up late at the farm, glorying in the brilliant sunshine and the temperate temperatures, so welcome after the endless winter.

Natasha and Mattski were over last night with the first asparagus of Spring to demonstrate that contention. It is the small green object, erect in the middle of the improvised salad I threw together to go with the wine. If you eat something, it is a meal, not an extended happy hour.

We watched UCONN come back against top-rated Florida, and then they departed to complete their day at their farm. I tried to watch the second installment of the Men’s Final Four last night and almost succeeded before collapsing under the weight of the day.

I eschew the alarm clock and allow the rhythms of the season to summon me to consciousness. The gray light was filtering in the windows and highlighting the fields below. The daffodils were coming out in bright yellow clumps on the State Road coming south yesterday, and the panel of experts is of the opinion that the last hard frost is in the rearview. Thank Goddess the season has- finally- changed.

Oh, yeah, the errata business.

Re: Spring Zephyr:

Vic, Just to keep you honest, I said “Walter Washington” was a competent District mayor, who was appointed by President Johnson, and not Harold Washington who was a supreme dummkopf mayor of Chicago in a different era.

-Old Jim

Re: World War One as a Bar Fight:

Yep! I can see you are out of sorts this morning Vic. Bobby Ray Inman’s wife is Nancy – not Carolyn.

Sid

RE: Article 5 and Suleyman’s Tomb

Hi, Vic. Just reviewed the video and it’s a Flogger…pilot ejected too…lucky for him…picture is of something else. Small point but look at the wings…that’s no swing-wing MiG-23 Flogger in the picture.
http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/mig27/mig277.html 

-Fred

Re: The Global Warming Hoax:

Hey, Vic, the global temperatures may not have gone up in 17 years, but there are indications that there will be a strong el Nino event in the Pacific this summer that could cause them to rise again. Just because it has nothing to do with CO2, man-made or otherwise, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t dismantle western society. Its for the kids.

-Dr. Michael Mann

It is important to keep things straight, and I appreciate the efforts of alert readers to keep The Daily on an even keel. Time to ditch the computer and live some life. I am thinking I might do some spring cleaning, run the vacuum around and suck up some of the fallow season’s crop of dead stink bugs and dust bunnies. There is the chance of a work out, and I have a new barn to investigate here in the county and would like to help Mattski with the bees today.

Were you aware that you can sell bees for more than you can sell their honey?

Is this an amazing world, or what?

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