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.
Here along the Yakima, to the south are the Horse Heaven Hills, and to the north are the Rattlesnake Hills. One has, or had, wild horses. The other? Well, I wear boots and thump the ground with a walking stick when I am walking around up there. Lots of vineyards on the slopes of the Rattlesnakes, by the way, including Red Mountain, the acknowledged best grapes in the state. Oh, and rattlesnakes.
Chimney rock, Nebraska had that sign when we stopped there, the staff told us there had been a rattlesnake on the patio the day before (about where where the sun tea jar was).
They want you to stay on sidewalks so that after you get bitten by the rattlesnakes also on the sidewalks, it's easier for EMS to get to you with the stretcher.
Could be relevant in the spring or summer, but irrelevant with snow on the ground.
ReplyDeleteuhhh, that's where they go to warm themselves!
ReplyDeleteThat was my first thought!!!
DeleteDuring winter days snakes on the frozen ground are probably popsicles unless they found holes to escape the massive extinction that winter brings.
ReplyDeleteHere along the Yakima, to the south are the Horse Heaven Hills, and to the north are the Rattlesnake Hills. One has, or had, wild horses. The other? Well, I wear boots and thump the ground with a walking stick when I am walking around up there. Lots of vineyards on the slopes of the Rattlesnakes, by the way, including Red Mountain, the acknowledged best grapes in the state. Oh, and rattlesnakes.
ReplyDeleteBecause rattlesnakes are terrified of sidewalks?
ReplyDeleteturn around and go back to the car.
ReplyDeleteChimney rock, Nebraska had that sign when we stopped there, the staff told us there had been a rattlesnake on the patio the day before (about where where the sun tea jar was).
ReplyDeleteThey want you to stay on sidewalks so that after you get bitten by the rattlesnakes also on the sidewalks, it's easier for EMS to get to you with the stretcher.
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