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.
Friday, November 4, 2022
Hammer for knocking down cones from cedar, Baikal region, Russia 1917. I wonder why they wanted pine cones?
I think they burn fast and hot, so, like kindling?
ReplyDeleteNone so fine, as pine cone wine.
Deleteyep, they burn like kerosene. lighter pine.
Deletefor the seeds,
ReplyDeleteUs kids ate pine cone seeds all the time I was growing up outside Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
ReplyDeleteAlso, a collection of pine cones would make excellent fuel without having to cut down the tree.
Pine nuts
ReplyDeleteThe Spanish called pine nuts "pinion" with one of these ~ over the the first n. I think
ReplyDeleteThat's a tilde, better known among Texans as a "nyuh."
Deletepiñon
DeleteWouldn't they be cedar cones?
ReplyDeleteIt's good some people are this alert so early in the a.m.
DeleteNo. They wanted pine cones, but could only get the cedar cones since those were the only trees they had.
DeleteI bet Paul Pelosi would envy this bad boy
ReplyDeletewinner
DeleteThey're nuts for their nuts, there's that.
ReplyDeleteHow is cedar oil made? Maybe they distill the cones to get the oil?
ReplyDeleteAbsinthe
ReplyDeleteThey would make great fuel for a wood cookstove. My grandmother used corn cobs for fuel. Burn fast and burn hot.
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