A log on the fire.....ah yes. The fire ban in west Carolina wuz off last week. We had a good fire most nites. I had my Zip ready, but Miz Bear brung the plug in pot 'n it wuz jest too dang eazy to fix me a cup of Columbian Java Juice. Gatormac 'n Miz Wynelle showed up, so did Ole Dave, Lucien 'n Ramona. We had anuther birthday party fer Ramona....with cake 'n squash, roasted corn 'n some mitey thick pork chops. Mmmmm........
It wuz cold near bout ever nite, below 40 3-4 times, but not below freezin'. We pulled out a day early 'n missed the lite snow they called fer in Bryson City. So far I aint camped in the snow. Neither haz Roscoe Brown frum Arkansaw.
It begun ta rain last Thursday nite. Rained all nite, then Friday it come a hoodoochie that lasted all day 'n all of the nite. Miz Ann sez it wuz 2". I went lookin' fer the High Sheriff. I figgered he had snuck in durin' the nite 'n brung the storm.....like he always done. I didnt smell nuthin', but I still wondered if he wuz hidin' out.
That wild cherry log sho smelled good. Ya sho "smoke iz smoke"? :wink:
regards
bearridge
If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, and give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses. And the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they do now, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains around the necks of our fellow sufferers. And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. And the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. Thomas Jefferson
