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.
Last Fri I cut the stump off a spring lettuce. I jammed 4 toothpicks in on 4 sides and set it on the edge of a small container of water with the bottom of the stump in the water, then set it on the sunny windowsill. Today, 6 days later, there is 4" of new growth jutting out of the top of it. Tomorrow it will get a scissor haircut that will end up in my supper salad. For free! Going to keep it up as long as it will cooperate.
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ReplyDeleteLast Fri I cut the stump off a spring lettuce. I jammed 4 toothpicks in on 4 sides and set it on the edge of a small container of water with the bottom of the stump in the water, then set it on the sunny windowsill. Today, 6 days later, there is 4" of new growth jutting out of the top of it. Tomorrow it will get a scissor haircut that will end up in my supper salad. For free! Going to keep it up as long as it will cooperate.
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