Hi, it’s Uncle Mott again from high atop the bell tower at the stately Motley Manor. Hey, how about that thunderstorm we had a few weeks ago? It was a real whopper, especially when a lightning bolt struck the bell in my belltower. It’s a good thing there were no bats...
Well, here we go again, not just one planned power outage, but two of these nuisances are planned for Oct. 7 and Oct. 14, from 10 p.m. to noon each day. Please excuse me for not being funny this week, although I am funny looking, but this is serious stuff. Edison just...
Back in the day, when I was a little sprout in the OC, my pappy would get me out of bed at the crack of dawn to make me rake leaves after a Santa Ana windstorm. He would say something like, “Up and at ‘em,” which was an old Army saying. Well, I didn’t mind that so...
It never ceases, the weather, that is. First it was the blizzard, then weeks and weeks of rain, followed by a hurricane and mudstorm, which occurs when it rains at the same time as there’s a duststorm, which we had back in June, when everyone was driving around with...
Sadly, we lost another music legend on Sept. 1 when Jimmy Buffett crossed over to the other side. I was just getting over the untimely… OK, so it was the timely death of Tony Bennett. By the way, you may not know this but, in France and in Canada, Jimmy’s last name is...
I guess I don’t have to tell you that the recent spread of gun violence in America, especially hate-inspired gun violence, has paid a visit to the mountain. As you no doubt read in the Aug. 24 issue of this newspaper, a Lake Arrowhead woman was shot and killed at her...
