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.
Lived six summers in Chico during my "four year" college stint. So many of those days were only tolerable when spent swimming and drinking beer in Upper Bidwell Park.
Looking on the bright side, that sure beats 112° with 30mph north winds.
ReplyDeletespent a year in 29 Palms, the temperature swings from night to day would mess with me
ReplyDeleteright there with you brother. Those lows look really nice.
ReplyDeleteWhich is why I never considered Redding as a retirement location.
ReplyDeleteLived six summers in Chico during my "four year" college stint. So many of those days were only tolerable when spent swimming and drinking beer in Upper Bidwell Park.
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time we had to wait until August.
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