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.
Yep, and I started one a bit ago and just finished my first cup of coffee! Rain is over here and the skies are clearing. Gonna be a beautiful chilly day!
My little place here in the Lower Yakima Valley was built in 1900. I see no indication of old gas lines for wall sconces, so it must have been lighted with oil/kerosene lamps until electrification arrived. There is a chimney but no fireplace, nor any place for there to have been one. There is an old coal shoot in the basement and signs that there was likely a stove down there. There are openings in the floor for heat to rise to the main floor. Would love to know what it looked like early on, but I'd really like to have a real fireplace. As it is we have a Jotul gas "stove" in the living room that does a fine job of heating the place. Well, until The Bosses in Olympia outlaw gas and force us to go all electric. Then I will have a fireplace installed. A burn, baby, burn.
Yep, and I started one a bit ago and just finished my first cup of coffee! Rain is over here and the skies are clearing. Gonna be a beautiful chilly day!
ReplyDeleteMy little place here in the Lower Yakima Valley was built in 1900. I see no indication of old gas lines for wall sconces, so it must have been lighted with oil/kerosene lamps until electrification arrived. There is a chimney but no fireplace, nor any place for there to have been one. There is an old coal shoot in the basement and signs that there was likely a stove down there. There are openings in the floor for heat to rise to the main floor. Would love to know what it looked like early on, but I'd really like to have a real fireplace. As it is we have a Jotul gas "stove" in the living room that does a fine job of heating the place. Well, until The Bosses in Olympia outlaw gas and force us to go all electric. Then I will have a fireplace installed. A burn, baby, burn.
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