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.
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Winemakers are lighting fires in vineyards to fight against the late frost. Chassagne-Montrachet, France.
I hope it works. We lost a lot of foliage around the area in the big Texas deep freeze including an ash tree in our backyard that was already budding when the cold wave hit. So far it doesn't look like it's coming back. There are dead trees everywhere. It just got too cold too fast.
Toured Napa one year (I ain't much of a oenophile..whatever) beautiful country. They had P51 Mustang engines mounted on telephone poles for freezes. When it got real cold, they would fire up those 1200HP monsters and blow air through the vineyard. Kept the frost from settlin' I'm told..
It looks like a Roman army camp.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy a glass of pre bottled Chardonnay by candlelight.
ReplyDeleteI wish it was troops, of patriots on the west side of the Potomac.
ReplyDeleteI hope it works. We lost a lot of foliage around the area in the big Texas deep freeze including an ash tree in our backyard that was already budding when the cold wave hit. So far it doesn't look like it's coming back. There are dead trees everywhere. It just got too cold too fast.
ReplyDeleteOh, just think what that's doing for climate change! (eyeroll)
ReplyDeleteLate frost? During Global warming?
ReplyDeleteThe Greenies use "Climate Change" so they can be covered whichever direction the temperatures go.
DeleteToured Napa one year (I ain't much of a oenophile..whatever) beautiful country. They had P51 Mustang engines mounted on telephone poles for freezes. When it got real cold, they would fire up those 1200HP monsters and blow air through the vineyard. Kept the frost from settlin' I'm told..
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