Peter Loewer

Discombobulated by Peter Loewer Truth be told, the general store was a scene of havoc, unleashed. Obviously, the front windows were OK, and the results of visible havoc were confined to the back of the store where open boxes and piles of papers covered the floor boards to a depthContinue Reading

Because the general store was open every day of the week, Mr. and Mrs. Storekeep had two home addresses. by Peter Loewer One was the pleasant apartment above the store that made getting to and from work especially easy. The second allowed an occasional escape from the vicissitudes of retailContinue Reading

by Peter Loewer Last week, the biggest rain ever fell on the General Store. The wind whipped around the corners of every home, cottage, or business, yet nothing quite measured up to the entry of Curmudgeon on this beautiful fall day when the leaves were turning (not to the perfectionContinue Reading

by Peter Loewer There was a morning fog almost every day last week and the outside air seemed to be cloying with dampness, a situation confounded by the sudden breakdown of the air conditioner in the General Store. Cityfella walked in on a damp Friday waving a letter he hadContinue Reading

by Peter Loewer Last week in the midst of one of the season’s worst downpours, the Curmudgeon opened the door of the General Store. Holding his 20-year-old outdoorsman’s canvas hat, originally purchased from Eddie Bauer, rolled up and wet in his left hand, a paper drink container labeled “Exotic Coffee”Continue Reading

Curmudgeon walked into the General Store and said to nobody in particular, “It’s started again.” by Peter Loewer “What?” asked Storekeep, Mrs. Storekeep, and brother of Cityfella. “That ubiquitous fog, you know the all-consuming early-morning mist that ruins golf shots and shopping, especially up here on our mountain top.” TheContinue Reading

by Peter Loewer Some readers will recall the end of last month’s column. In brief: Curmudgeon suggested that the various members of the General Store Membership List might be persuaded to join him for a jaunt around the area, using his Chevy truck for the mode of transportation, promising anContinue Reading

by Peter Loewer The weather of late had been rainy, windy, and generally unseasonable, especially for a touristy area like that which surrounded the The General Store. Days remained hot and nights cooling down, so that on the higher mountains one began to see smoke from hidden chimneys. Mr. andContinue Reading

by Peter Loewer It was one of those late August days of this year beginning with mist in the morning, rain at noon, then at 4 p.m. a heat-and-humidity-storm. Weather usually experienced in New Guinea during the Second World War – and it was the mention of that war thatContinue Reading