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Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott: Johnny’s Garden

It’s that time of the year when we need to start making your home and mine safe from the ravages of a wildfire. which could occur at any moment now that weeds and chaparral have grown taller than an elephants eye due to the recent heavily wet storms followed by heat...
Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott – Little Lies

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott – Little Lies

What I find incredibly annoying is all of the television commercials featuring pitchmen (I prefer the term “con artist”) for products and services that are totally exaggerated or that don’t even exist at all. Take, for instance, the fellow who wants to buy your house...

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott – Fire on the Mountain

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott – Fire on the Mountain

Fire can be your friend or it can be your worst enemy. It’s good when you’re camping in the Sierras and it’s freezing cold; all you have to do is light the campfire and cook some burgers or steak. But you need to be careful and keep the fire in the fire ring while...

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott – Heatwave

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott – Heatwave

I hope all of you survived last week’s heatwave without suffering heat prosti… Excuse me, I meant to say heat prostration. That’s better; it seems we had a so-called “Heat Dome” overhead that resulted in record-setting temperatures throughout much of the Southland and...

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott – Old Hogan’s Goat

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott – Old Hogan’s Goat

I know you’re gonna think I’m crazy (many people already do), but did you know that you can rent a goat, or even a herd of goats, to rid your property of weeds and brush? It’s true, there’s a company in San Diego that will rent you a herd of goats to create defensible...

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott –  Telephone Line

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott – Telephone Line

Hello there, music lovers. I hope you like Electric Light Orchestra, for their song “Telephone Line” is, naturally, about telephones, and that’s what this week’s musing is all about…or aboot, as Canadians might say. Anyway, getting back to telephones, my cell phone,...

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