Vic Socotra

There is so much going on today that we thought it would be appropriate to run the story of the early morning raid on the home of a Congresswoman from Minnesota.

Splash’s Creamy Chicken and Bacon Chowder A Festive Holiday Meal as the Big Storm Dances Off!

The Storm is in, and has washed us in an insistent but gentle padding on the sole window that opens to the air on the 4th Floor suite wall.

Weakening, But Headed This Way Time to Bake Some Potato Chip Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Hot morning in politics and a tumult coming in our Weather!

The news hit hard today and evoked tears from those here not prone to hold them in reserve.

It is a special day for those who serve, or remember what it was like to come home.

And of course, that means the hand grenades can be as personal as the news in our headsets!

Some mornings call for something reassuring!

There is plenty out there to talk about, some of it momentous and we do not claim to be smart enough to sort it out.

There are heroes among us, and they have been revealed in the heavens above in this astonishing series of Big Weeks!

It is New Years!

Morning, Gang!

Wounded Pilot, Covered in Blood, Clicked Open Cockpit Door…” For the Time of Your Life!

Yesterday morning, the Fourth Floor Conference Room at the Trillium had a day shift, a couple of breakfast munchers and what remains of our Aerospace Department watching a very large object leave Texas.

The Big Freaking Week is now safely retired to the annals of history.

OK.

Deirdre’s note: I am not going to clutter this page with another recipe card for Rocket’s chili.

Trees lit by the rising sun, The sky stark, bright, a golden dawn, Low clouds shaded in softest pink, A new day, September morn.

Signaling Our Collective Virtue!

Deirdre’s Dynamite Wedge We got complaints from the Crowd.

This was the Big Deal in a Big Week as the spotlights wheeled southwest from Manhattan to arrive at the East Room of the White House.

Editors Note: According to the METOC Weather Guessers, we are officially in Fall.

The component parts of the Big Week are coming into somewhat sharper focus, now that some of the jet exhaust has blown away in the big Nor’easter along the coast.

A Big Day …In a Very Big Week!

HI!

For a few hours this week, it sounded as though the Strait of Hormuz might reopen.

The historical irony here is almost too loud to ignore, so why don’t you come on in and snuggle up and enjoy some of it with us?

“Operation Argument” was the name of the military operation launched by the United States Army Air Forces, supported by the Royal Air Force’s Bomber Command, against Nazi Germany in February 1944.

The Conference Room was filled yesterday morning to see our President- a man arguably acting as the Chief Executive of a lot more territorory- told the Iranians he was prepared to annihilate them to make Iran a world-class state in the great tradition of…

Orchard Owner William Tyson and His Corner, 1951 Peaches in a savory dinner?

Section Leader Miles asked me to do a quick line and block diagram on the new Department of War now that Secretary Hegseth has bolted on the new Space and AI wings onto it.

Well, as I explained this morning, you can see the new War Department block diagram had things pretty well laid out with the new Space Force shield entered in and the circles of authority all orbiting properly in their arcs around Secretary Pete.

We are way behind this afternoon with the announcement yesterday from Secretary lf War Pete Hegseth about the status of Pitiffuk Space Force Base, formerly Thule Strategic Air Command Base. up on Greenland’s upper west coast.

The map was never supposed to actually be the territory in question.

We used to know where ‘Thule’ was.

We still have subscriptions to the two old Papers of Record, the Post and the Times, although we no longer start our days poring over their columns.

There is a certain rhythm to September around Socotra House that we are only beginning to understand.

Don’t get me wrong- I appreciate Holly’s Aunt Aly being here to share some of the creation time!

THE BALLOT IS HERE Early voting in Virginia begins tomorrow.

This is a man to follow.

Lovely morning on this side of the River through our town.

Holly had the immediate problem.

Hi!

We briefly considered a football theme to the opening of this lovely mid-September morning.

Holly and Vic Get the EMMY, Potato and Sausage Thing Straight This is one of those Hollywood Award presentations and meal preps that look complicated but aren’t.

Surf Not Affested by Houthi Advances Toward Bab Al Mendeb Strait Inline image PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Perim Island is CLOSED for recreational swimming, snorkeling and surfing due to Iranian IRGC incursions.

The Sunday Dance-Off We started Sunday morning considerably farther south and east, watching what could have been the sun coming up over Socotra.

Yesterday was emotional in a way that none of the last twenty-five observances of that strange and lovely morning had been.