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.
Sigh - when I was young I grew up in an old farm house like that. Coal furnace but you banked the fire at bedtime. You woke up with frost on the blankets. You went down and built up the fire. After a hot breakfast- time to go to work. You go out to (in my case) an old VW bug with a heater in the tail-end of the car and scraped the frost off the inside of the windshield....you might have some heat by the time you got to work...might. So that's a cool picture, but I never, ever, want to go back there.
Early models took the heat from the cylinders and were worthless. Later models took heat from the exhaust pipes and were pretty good, with very little wait time.
Sigh - when I was young I grew up in an old farm house like that. Coal furnace but you banked the fire at bedtime. You woke up with frost on the blankets. You went down and built up the fire. After a hot breakfast- time to go to work. You go out to (in my case) an old VW bug with a heater in the tail-end of the car and scraped the frost off the inside of the windshield....you might have some heat by the time you got to work...might. So that's a cool picture, but I never, ever, want to go back there.
ReplyDeleteHouse and truck appear to be rather drafty…
ReplyDeleteIt looks cold, quiet & abandoned.
ReplyDeleteRobbed for parts.
ReplyDeleteAnon, the coldest thing I’ve ever felt was the heat in a Volkswagen.
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DeleteEarly models took the heat from the cylinders and were worthless. Later models took heat from the exhaust pipes and were pretty good, with very little wait time.
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