Now that the Memorial Day weekend crowd has disbursed, we are approaching, with great anticipation, the Fourth of July weekend Jamboree Days crowd. Hopefully, we will have great weather for the July 4th fireworks extravaganza and the Jamboree Days parade, not foggy...
Here it is June 8, 2023, and yesterday, June 7, was the last day of school for all Rim District schools. Last week, I was at Valley of Enchantment Elementary School for their annual Senior Walk. No, it’s not a walk with senior citizens. What it is is a procession of...
I’ve never had much use for the “idiot box” (TV), ‘cept for Jeopardy, “Wheel” and the news and weather, especially when Channel 9’s Evelyn Taft is doing the prognosticating. Evelyn reminds me of a gal I used to know back in the day. Her name was McGill and she called...
What a beautiful blue-sky day it was when I stepped out onto the deck here at the stately Motley Manor the other morning and heard the blue jays (actually, they’re called Steller’s Jays) chirping their unique mating calls as they jumped from tree to tree in...
There were some anxious moments back in March when some of our mountaintop communities were literally islands unto themselves, as all routes into and out of the area were rendered useless by torrents of rain, snow, flowing mud and falling rocks. Welcome to Shangri-La,...
Once again, the “rain gods” have smiled down on our mountaintop lakes and reservoirs and replenished them handsomely. Not since Lake Gregory was filled to the brim by a single downpour in 1938 have we witnessed so much H2O in such a brief interval. Here comes the rain...
