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.
Sitting in traffic waiting for a left turn light in one of the northern suburbs of Chicago (Lake county maybe). I look to the left and see a silo behind the strip mall, a little more looking around and you can see that this used to be the "home place", taken over by civilization.
5 years of my life spent at CGAS Chicago... until Dan Rostenkowski went to prison and the CG was (politically) able to close the station. But that was back in the 1900s...
Yonder years I met himself and herself old timers. They had moved their ranch home twice as civilization crept too close. They were already thinking of their third, and final, move.
Years went by, I fell out of touch with them. Some years later I came 'round to find they were gone. Their driveway was now a road connecting with the old road to town. That road was now a four lane with stop lights. The city had caught and passed their once open range. Their final home was now a shed out behind a tire shop.
Its a wonderment to see so much change in so little time.
I like it, but the house etc. is way too close to the main road, and even with some good dogs, it has the built-in security flaws of a bank or liquor store in Los Angeles right next to a freeway onramp.
Move that compound back to the middle of the property, and trench the perimeter, throwing the spoil up into a perimeter berm just inside that, and we can talk.
You can tell this homestead was built long after the plains became thoroughly civilized and pacified. And only works as long as they stay that way.
I hope there are game birds in those fencerows and deer in the woods.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that riparian area is crawling with critters.
DeleteSitting in traffic waiting for a left turn light in one of the northern suburbs of Chicago (Lake county maybe). I look to the left and see a silo behind the strip mall, a little more looking around and you can see that this used to be the "home place", taken over by civilization.
ReplyDelete5 years of my life spent at CGAS Chicago... until Dan Rostenkowski went to prison and the CG was (politically) able to close the station.
But that was back in the 1900s...
Yonder years I met himself and herself old timers. They had moved their ranch home twice as civilization crept too close. They were already thinking of their third, and final, move.
DeleteYears went by, I fell out of touch with them. Some years later I came 'round to find they were gone. Their driveway was now a road connecting with the old road to town. That road was now a four lane with stop lights. The city had caught and passed their once open range. Their final home was now a shed out behind a tire shop.
Its a wonderment to see so much change in so little time.
I like it, but the house etc. is way too close to the main road, and even with some good dogs, it has the built-in security flaws of a bank or liquor store in Los Angeles right next to a freeway onramp.
ReplyDeleteMove that compound back to the middle of the property, and trench the perimeter, throwing the spoil up into a perimeter berm just inside that, and we can talk.
You can tell this homestead was built long after the plains became thoroughly civilized and pacified.
And only works as long as they stay that way.