And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I read a historical account of the pioneers crossing the salt pans west of the Great Salt lake, and that literally happened to some of them. The wagon wheels broke through the crust and then the oxen wore out trying to drag them along. A nightmare for sure.
As with snow, there are many kinds of mud: soupy, slippery gummy, sticky, thick and thin. I don't trust any of 'em. My least favorite is the kind that balls up on your boots as you're trying to get unstuck. That stuff will turn to cement when it dries and has to be chiseled off. I hate shoveling- best to let somebody else go first. Same with river crossings. To wit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDBthQ8C8HU
I'm going with wooden bridges, especially the first one, this week. Although...the car buried in the mud was humorous.
ReplyDeleteThe road ate him.
DeleteA word to the wise- think twice before traversing a "dry" lake bed. That goo under the crust has been waiting for eons just to suck you down.
DeleteYou're welcome.
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I read a historical account of the pioneers crossing the salt pans west of the Great Salt lake, and that literally happened to some of them. The wagon wheels broke through the crust and then the oxen wore out trying to drag them along. A nightmare for sure.
DeleteAs with snow, there are many kinds of mud: soupy, slippery gummy, sticky, thick and thin. I don't trust any of 'em. My least favorite is the kind that balls up on your boots as you're trying to get unstuck. That stuff will turn to cement when it dries and has to be chiseled off.
DeleteI hate shoveling- best to let somebody else go first. Same with river crossings.
To wit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDBthQ8C8HU
3:40
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I'll go with those Jeeps doing the Hammers in Johnson Valley
ReplyDeleteThat car in the mud. Needs someone on top of it, staring off, saying "Fifty yards".
ReplyDeleteThe car was driven on to mudflats at Berrow beach,Somerset,U.K.
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