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Wow - two major snow events this week. For anyone who doesn't know this yet, I live in a northern Appalachian valley in Pennsylvania, and we're only 80 miles east of Lake Erie, with a much smaller Chautauqua Lake in between. We also get lake effect from Lake Huron sweeping downward and over Lake Erie from Buffalo. We got 15 inches of heavy snow with Arctic air, and then the next day, the lake effe...
Deep Snow
Dec 07, 2024
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The Mad King had come into power in quite a farcical manner. He was not royalty; not a royal subject, nor relation. He was not of a lineage to rule over the land. The only claim to heir that he could make was to be that of Dr. Crookenspiel's Traveling Medicine Show; his father before him had amassed a fortune in promising poor "marks" miraculous cures for what ailed them. This financed what he tru...
Chapter 2: Oz-like Beginnings
Dec 05, 2024
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The Mad King awoke in a fury one morning. His realm was in chaos ever since the villagers had discovered that, instead of using the goods he regularly required them to donate - the chickens and livestock, part of their harvests, assorted leather and iron goods crafted by artisans, and the fine, strong broadcloth the women weaved over the winter months with the wool he allowed them to retain - he w...
Covfefe: A Fairy Tale
Dec 05, 2024
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