Trego's Mountain Ear

After a rather lengthy NICU stay (umbilical cord around the neck three times, and a failure to realize that breathing has to be continual), we’ve finally returned home and everyone is doing well. The Mountain Ear will be resuming the usual schedule- check for us on Tuesday mornings. Read more

I suspect that I’m not in favor of war anywhere.  Ukraine probably isn’t a bad spot for a war – it is a long way from my home.  Still, I keep remembering a comment that “Peace is an unusual state of affairs that we assume exists because there are times when the fighting is somewhere Read more

We learned of Paula Buff’s resignation with her email response line as we looked at planning the Trego school election: From: Paula Buff <pbuff@libby.org>Date: Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 3:43 PMSubject: Automatic reply: Express vote machineTo: Trego School <clerk@tregoschool.org> I am no longer with Lincoln County. If you need assistance, please contact the County Commissioners. Thanks. Read more

So I’m looking at a Newsweek article on feral hogs.  One of the neat things it included was this chart: I’m not really sure about invasive wild pigs, but I notice a 0.6 to 0.8 probability of them coming into Lincoln County.  I don’t know if that’s per year, or what – but the maps Read more

I had been thinking of Mike Brandon off and on for the past week or two when I heard he had gone away.  Not dead, you understand.  Just gone away – for he lives in memories of those who knew him.  We were teenagers when we met – probably on the school bus in the Read more

Secession is here: States, cities and the wealthy are already withdrawing from America Michael J. Lee, College of Charleston Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, wants a “national divorce.” In her view, another Civil War is inevitable unless red and blue states form separate countries. She has plenty of company on the right, where Read more