234 years and the War Cicada.

Did you know...that if things get really bad, cicadas make an excellent meal, and are dosile enough to catch and (from what i've heard) taste pretty good stir fried? Maybe as a survival tactic, you can stir up some cicadas with your vegetables.

Did you also know that they have a 17 year life cycle because 17 is a prime number? If they had 16 or 18, it would be easier for a species to prey on them but 17 makes it tough. They'll probably outlast people in the Ohio River Valley.

i live in the Ohio Valley myself...the damn things are driving me nuts, so i've been reading about them.

Didn't know if you saw this, but now peer reviewed, major engineering journals are questioning the official 9/11 story. Here's the link: http://www.bentham-open.o...
(Here's a hint, don't just read the title)
Also, the investigator of that study revealed on air that he's done analysis on debris at the 9/11 scene and he said it closely resembles the government sponsored nanothermite. Here's a link I've found: http://pdf.aiaa.org/jaPre...

I love the story. I really love this post. It actually hits home for me. I am in an area of the war cecada. I do labor work.

Obviously there are thoughts going through my mind regarding doubts about your actual deeds today because of your proven un credibility on speaking truth, but I could actually relate. I have hands where people know exactly what I do when they shake them. This appreciation has not gone unnoticed by me, but was heightened by the post.

The only thing that I wish to add:

I will take this reflection as my own. If you had any credibility in my eyes, I would attribute it to you in my own personal brain.

Do you see what you have done?

We all have our roles.

You too, are an artist at the keyboard.

I just hope those Cicadas don't eat the stuff you are planting after all of that hard work. I wonder if they are part of the locust family. Interesting how your family tree goes back to the original Revolution.

We have wine grape vineyards. I can relate.
The thing is, back in the day, they had to do it all over again every year, year after year. Though a well used and well trained horse powered plow would be much easier than wrestling a heavy, noisy, stinking, gas-powered machine, if you ask me, and yes, we have horses. Also the typical, heavy implements of misery.

I am DAR, too, and feel the same reverence and awe for my ancestor's inumerable sacrifices, and work in the name of Freedom and Liberty.

The reward is in the harvest, worth every blister and drop of blood and sweat.

Thanks!

Vali

'...truth is loved in such a way that those who love some other thing want it to be the truth, and precisely because they do not wish to be deceived, are unwilling to be convinced that they are deceived." --- St. Augustine, Confessions (10:23), 5th c.

If you have 4 (or more) well trained horses, and know what you are doing, and good equipment, you should be able to plow several acres in one day, with less work at any given time than the tiller requires. It is somewhat easier to do your plowing/tilling around March, as soon as the ground dries out/ and before the grass/weeds grow much.

just so you know, and acre is 43,560 square feet, or about 209 ft by 209 ft.

I'm not involved in farming this year because it's the sabbath year, (you can read about the sabbath year in Leviticus 25)

If you decide at the end of this summer that your garden wasn't worthwhile, please consider that the bible might be correct. The Christians rarely follow the bible, so don't misunderstand what I'm saying.

I think the reason many (It seemed like you were included based on some other posts you've done recently) people oppose the bible is because the churches say they follow it, than do the opposite.

I also think that the reason many people oppose politics is because many politicians oppose the constitution.

To me, there is a remarkable similarity.

How do you get the time to do graphic design? There's alot of farmers and technocrati on this site. For example, devon_saunders said he's an engineer by day, but has a farm for all his needs at home. THere are several people in my state who are also on this site that are workers/farmers. If you want a challenge update this picture with all the neocons: http://i136.photobucket.c...

Also, maybe we should have been paying closer to the cicadas everytime they show up, as Thomas Jefferson points out here:
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the 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.
It is its natural manure."

A really great post. Thanks

Good thread.

Nothing is cooler than doing something that connects you to your ancestors.

Great post. I always find myself comparing certain situations we have to deal with today to the way they had to deal with them back in THE day. Everytime I go jogging and I come inside and I'm hot as hell, I always think Can you imagine how tough our ancestors must have been, They had no AC and did 10 or more times the manual labor we do. It just amazes me how tough those SOB's were back then. And the woman too. They did a LOT of work as well. Just try to churn some butter!

I have some huge blisters on my hands! So much for being a graphics designer.

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