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.
Sunday, March 25, 2018
This morning's fire
Quality of life, right there.
I'm reduced to burning scrap, but even so it still makes a nice heat. Mrs. CW also likes the rush sound a well prepared fire makes when you first set it off, and the pops it makes after getting going.
Practically every household burned Sulphur laden bituminous coal back 20 years ago when I was living in Ireland. if you got a good temperature inversion you'd be coughing black lung phlegm for a week.
In contrast to that, if I could get to the top of the chimney here, I'd hover right over it and breathe deep the wonderful campfire smell a good wood fire makes.
Practically every household burned Sulphur laden bituminous coal back 20 years ago when I was living in Ireland. if you got a good temperature inversion you'd be coughing black lung phlegm for a week.
ReplyDeleteI recall those days. The air - particularly the night air - was yellow and thick like a fog.
DeleteIn contrast to that, if I could get to the top of the chimney here, I'd hover right over it and breathe deep the wonderful campfire smell a good wood fire makes.
DeleteDang, sure miss having a woodstove, even though we cut and split 8 cords to keep us thru the winter.
ReplyDeleteIt warmed you twice.
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