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Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott: A Summer Song

Now that the Memorial Day Weekend crowd has dispersed, we are approaching, with great anticipation, the Fourth of July weekend with its Jamboree Days crowd. Hopefully, we will have great weather for the July 4th fireworks extravaganza on July 3, and the Jamboree Days...
Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Something In the Air

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Something In the Air

Well, I guess I don’t have to tell you that the world has gone to hell in a handbasket. It’s true, folks, we’ve got Israelites and Iranians clobbering each other with rockets and missiles and other folks demonstrating and rioting in the streets of L.A. and other...

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Heat Wave

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Heat Wave

I guess I don’t have to tell you it was hotter than a witch’s broomstick last week. But, let’s face it, it’s always hot this time of the year, and people always complain about the weather, especially me. But then people complain when it’s cold. Some folks, especially...

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Rock N’ Roll Heaven

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Rock N’ Roll Heaven

Wednesday, June 11, 2025, may go down in history as the Day the World Stopped Spinning. For me, it was the day my turntable began spinning out of control, in memory of Beach Boy Brian Wilson, who is likely rockin’ and rollin’ in heaven with his brothers, Carl and...

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Wichita Lineman

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Wichita Lineman

I know this sounds repetitious, for we have taken this journey before. It is, of course, the journey that incorporates Southern California Edison’s continued malfeasance in regard to their refusal to bury their powerlines in order to prevent them from falling to the...

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Mountaineer Days

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Mountaineer Days

Here it is almost summer and soon it will be time for fun in the sun. What’s more fun than a barrel of monkeys? Why, Mountaineer Days, of course. Back in the early 2000s (2011, to be exact) Crestline celebrated Mountaineer Days with a carnival on Lake Gregory’s south...

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Operator

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Operator

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been getting some very strange phone calls of late, dozens of calls every cotton-pickin’ day, many of which have no one there to talk to. I call them “ghost calls.” I beg them to say something, anything. It’s really annoying when they...

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