Nothing says Christmas more than the annual barrage of Christmas carols that show up around Thanksgiving time and quickly vanish, come New Years Day. No sooner has the Thanksgiving turkey been properly basted and put in the oven, the annual barrage of Christmas carols...
Uncle Mott
Uncle Mott
Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott – There’s a Bathroom on the Right
Seven men were recently arrested for the theft of an 18-karat gold toilet from Blenheim Palace, the sprawling English mansion where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born. The toilet, valued at $5.95 million, was an artwork that was intended to be a satire...
Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott – Song For a Friend
On the eve of Thanksgiving each year, I’m sadly reminded of the awful tragedy that occurred 60 years ago, on Nov. 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas by an apparently deranged young man, who was also shot shortly afterward. When you...
Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott – Starman
Whew, that was a close call! I’m talking, of course, about Asteroid Melpomene, which is 37 kilometers in diameter (3,320 feet, equal to about three-fifths of a mile) and passed within 533 miles of Earth on Oct. 30. Had it struck the Earth at 30,000 mph, it would have...
Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott – Free Pizza
At a Re-Imagining the Mountain Communities meeting held at Lake Arrowhead Resort on Thursday, Oct. 19, some two dozen Crestline, Lake Arrowhead and Running Springs community members and business owners and managers gathered to discuss ways to lure more visitors to the...





