Beyond the curtain of dense fog wrapping The Mountain early yesterday morning, a lunar eclipse was happening. “Blood Moon” and all that.
We didn’t see it.
The Heeler and I, after taking care of our usual business, rolled down the road before 8am. We found six whitetails grazing calmly in the pasture down below.
Our destination wasn’t Yellville or Flippin, but the town of Summit. Tuesday, March 3rd brought the 2026 Arkansas Preferential Primary, and we were bound for the county fairgrounds so that I could vote.
I vote on Election Day, in person. Only once in my life did I cast my ballot by mail, when I was out of the country on business, and that didn’t feel right to me.
This does.
As long as we were in Summit, a stop at Allen’s Grocery was in order.
The store is a genuine throwback. Now in its 74th year — still owned and operated by the Allen family, worked by a fourth generation — it’s one of my favorite businesses in this area.
I don’t splurge much these days. Frankly, I can’t. But on this Preferential Primary Day, I treated myself to a sausage-and-cheese biscuit from the hot counter in the back of the store. The biscuits are homemade and the sausage is crafted in-house.
I enjoyed it on the bank of Crooked Creek at Yellville City Park.
Delicious. (Smudge would agree. She got tastes of biscuit and cheese.)
Spring cleanup continued Tuesday. In the interest of pace, I set the bar low — easier work, consuming less time than I’d devoted the previous few days.
I grabbed loppers and a hatchet from the shed — what a pleasure to open the doors and find it neat and organized — and spent a couple of hours maintaining the trail from the driveway up to Jeff’s tree stand.
I was in no hurry. I treated the task like a walk in the woods, ambling, noticing, pausing. The work got done, but it didn’t feel like work.
Hey — maybe I’m onto something. Maybe that’s the whole point.
This requires more research. I’ll get back to you.
Take care of yourselves, Patriots. Stay calm. Stay sharp. Stay free.
#WiseUp #LibertyOrDeath #Ungovernable