Month: January 2018

Modern slavery on MLK Day

by admin • January 16, 2018 • Comments Off

While cutting up a downed maple tree today, ( the pond was frozen), I was musing about the subtlety of modern slavery. An editorial in the Sunday paper cited some very brief quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville regarding freedom and the…

Cold Snap & Shortages

by admin • January 8, 2018 • Comments Off

Around Christmas, the temps dropped to below zero at night: barely cracking single digits during the day. This extended sub-zero cold spell caught me off guard. I nearly ran out of heating oil. It was also a refresher lesson in…