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.
Must be a chain/log boom downstream. Or it's a holding pond for the mill. Everything at rest, so reasonably safe. It would be ultra reckless to have Mom, baby and family pet there if those logs were moving.
Old B&W movie of a land rush (??Oklahoma??) featured a small child sitting on the ground with all the rushing horses, riders, & wagons bearing down on him/her. It was a live child of the stunt rider who picked the child up ahead of the rush. Safety considerations worked on different wavelengths back then.
Today is the last day of me going to the mill. All my tools & junk have been moved out & I ain't going there anymore. I refuse to build, work on or go out in anyone's boat but mine.
Must be a chain/log boom downstream. Or it's a holding pond for the mill. Everything at rest, so reasonably safe. It would be ultra reckless to have Mom, baby and family pet there if those logs were moving.
ReplyDeleteOld B&W movie of a land rush (??Oklahoma??) featured a small child sitting on the ground with all the rushing horses, riders, & wagons bearing down on him/her. It was a live child of the stunt rider who picked the child up ahead of the rush. Safety considerations worked on different wavelengths back then.
DeleteToday is the last day of me going to the mill. All my tools & junk have been moved out & I ain't going there anymore. I refuse to build, work on or go out in anyone's boat but mine.
ReplyDeleteBoy, do I miss fishing the big eastern pond for Drum.
Deletei've gotten the impression you are flat tired of working. do enjoy your retirement. il.chuck
Deletewhat type of critter is next to the man in the fore ground?
ReplyDeleteDog jumping up?
DeleteAlien from area 51
DeleteThat's a Smallfoot.
DeleteLooks like a river in NH or over to Maine when I was pretty small.
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