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Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott: Here Comes Summer

I’d like to begin this week with a seasonal sort of rhyme that goes sort of like this: Spring has sprung, and fall has fell. Now it’s summer and it’s hotter than…heck, yes, that’s it, hotter than heck, what the heck did you think I was gonna say? Well, there’s no...
Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Peaceful Easy Feeling

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Peaceful Easy Feeling

I was reading an article about “Glamping” (elegant camping) in Westways the other day… Oh, and for those of you who don’t read, why are you reading this? Anyhoo, it’s a magazine for members of the American Automobile Association (AAA) and it reminded me that the Lake...

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Misheard Song Lyrics

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Misheard Song Lyrics

Today I shall be delving into the world of homophony. No, it’s not what you think, homophones are merely words that sound like others but have different meanings. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I hear a song and, all of a sudden, I have to stop and think…wait...

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Drive My Car

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Drive My Car

I have some serious reservations about these so-called “self-driving cars” that are already being operated on our highways and byways and the so-called “driverless trucks” that will soon be unleashed upon our nation’s highways. You won’t see me motoring around in a...

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Germs

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Germs

The availability of hand sanitizers in public places is one of the coolest things since the discovery of penicillin. The ones at the supermarket are meant for cleaning all the yuck off the handle of your shopping cart. There’s no telling what kinds of disease-bearing...

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