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.
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Watching the sun go down and the mosquitoes come out
I lived in a place like that, in Michigan, on one of the 5 Arbutus lakes in Michigan. Regrettably, there is one industry in that county: kissing tourist ass. Pucker and smooch! Nice loud buzzing sound! A Worf with a hemorrhoid personality is incompatible with the hospitality industry.
If you have a bit of moving water near by, order a box of dragonfly larvae, a school supply outfit in Mass. will ship you a package to your door. Ordered a box 2 years after that we had dragonflies up the wazoo. No more blackflies, skeeters, no-seeums bite us, at dusk its amazing all the dragonflies feasting on any flying biting bugs. Mow the lawn and hundreds of dragonflies follow you.
When I lived on the bay, the still mornings sounded prehistoric what with the blue herons ack ack acking in search of breakfast.
ReplyDeleteI lived in a place like that, in Michigan, on one of the 5 Arbutus lakes in Michigan. Regrettably, there is one industry in that county: kissing tourist ass. Pucker and smooch! Nice loud buzzing sound! A Worf with a hemorrhoid personality is incompatible with the hospitality industry.
ReplyDeleteStill got mine. Be headed there in a few weeks...Tomahawk, WI. Great small town.
ReplyDeleteIf you have a bit of moving water near by, order a box of dragonfly larvae, a school supply outfit in Mass. will ship you a package to your door. Ordered a box 2 years after that we had dragonflies up the wazoo. No more blackflies, skeeters, no-seeums bite us, at dusk its amazing all the dragonflies feasting on any flying biting bugs. Mow the lawn and hundreds of dragonflies follow you.
ReplyDeleteI'll give that a shot this year. Thanks.
DeleteThe one and only thought about this pastoral scene is massive clouds of blood sucking mosquitoes.
ReplyDeleteAnd God created the heavens and the earth. He loves us enough to make a way by Jesus for us to say, “He is risen” today!
ReplyDeleteThermacell (mosquito repellent) worked on a dock like that for sunset cocktails.
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