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.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
On my way back and forth to Marysville last week, I spied this beside the road near Red Bluff. There's a story, and Brig can tell it
Osage Orange, or Horseapple, will survive almost anything. Even though its dense wood will kill a chainsaw blade, an osage orange fencepost will often root and grow - you can see old fencelines as planted tree lines in Oklahoma and Texas. Back in the Depression, poor folks in the dustbowl that couldn't afford barbed wire would plant a sprig of osage orange, then bend it over and plant the top, too. Both ends would root. A running line of interlocking sprig hoops would soon turn into an impenetrable barbed fence, even keep the hogs in. Or so the Old-Timers tell me.
Osage Orange, or Horseapple, will survive almost anything. Even though its dense wood will kill a chainsaw blade, an osage orange fencepost will often root and grow - you can see old fencelines as planted tree lines in Oklahoma and Texas. Back in the Depression, poor folks in the dustbowl that couldn't afford barbed wire would plant a sprig of osage orange, then bend it over and plant the top, too. Both ends would root. A running line of interlocking sprig hoops would soon turn into an impenetrable barbed fence, even keep the hogs in. Or so the Old-Timers tell me.
ReplyDeleteThat wood smoke's a damn fine turkey too. A little goes a long way.
ReplyDeleteBrig tells is well!
ReplyDeleteIt was a familiar sight when I lived in Anderson and worked at Red Bluff.
ReplyDeleteEven undecorated it sort of stands out.