In my 66-plus years, I’ve known very few farmers who have gym memberships. Likewise ranchers, homesteaders, committed outdoorsmen and the like. There’s little point in paying for something they get for free. Like them, I prefer work to working out.
Today wrapped up a solid two weeks of moving trees, brush, rocks and debris, most of that on the lower level. It’s been a relentless physical grind, and it feels good. This is the perfect time of year, too, to do this kind of work — pleasant temps, plus little concern about picking up ticks or chiggers and less likelihood of disturbing a snake in a pile of rocks.
After Deb left for work this morning, I waded into a knee-high pile next to the road, the 30-foot-wide right-of-way we cleared for the power line to our transformer pole. Fortunately, it was all brush and virtually no rocks or excavation debris. But there was a whole lot of it.
I hauled away three full truckloads. It took four hours.
That essentially completes the cleanup I planned to do on the lower level. I think it turned out great overall, and Deb agrees with me — much tidier, but still looking natural.
Picture this — an investigation finds evidence that a government official “willfully” possessed classified documents in violation of law, but the special prosecutor who led the probe declines to bring charges. Among the reasons:
“We have… considered that, at trial, [the accused] would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.
“Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then… well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
That’s not unheard of in criminal and civil cases. Sometimes the evidence, no matter how strong or conclusive, is unlikely to overcome a jury’s sympathy.
Now imagine that the accused — who’s not lucid enough to testify in his own defense — is the current occupant of the Oval Office.
And he’s running for a second term.
And people are voting for him. And he hasn’t lost a primary yet.
Welcome to America, boys and girls, where too senile to stand trial isn’t too senile to be “president.”
Take care of yourselves, Patriots. Stay calm. Stay sharp. Stay free.
#WiseUp #LibertyOrDeath #Ungovernable
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