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I think I'm going to run away from home for the weekend!Might be MIA. I haven't decided yet. If so, I hope y'all have a wonderful long weekend!
Can I run away with you, Rave? You always go to the most beautiful places!
I just PM'd you my cell number, just in case. I forget sometimes and give out my home number as it goes straight to my cell. Send away!
I'm just at home, Tina. There are a lot of beautiful places here, some yet undiscovered.
Had to use Google Images to see what Chinese Water Dragons actually look like.
They remind me of Chameleons but bigger, much bigger!
They remind me of Chameleons but bigger, much bigger!
I'm just at home, Tina. There are a lot of beautiful places here, some yet undiscovered.
Your land is beautiful and I envy you! Nature just feels like a second home to me!
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How it all started -
The Unanimous Declaration of the
Thirteen United States of America
In Congress, July 4, 1776
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasions from without and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops
among us;
For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states;
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;
For imposing taxes on us without our consent;
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury;
For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offenses;
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies;
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments;
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrection among us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in our attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity; and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
WE, THEREFORE, the REPRESENTATIVES of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in General Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that, as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
The Unanimous Declaration of the
Thirteen United States of America
In Congress, July 4, 1776
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasions from without and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops
among us;
For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states;
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;
For imposing taxes on us without our consent;
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury;
For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offenses;
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies;
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments;
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrection among us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in our attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity; and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
WE, THEREFORE, the REPRESENTATIVES of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in General Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that, as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
Didn't want to quote the whole Declaration of Independance, but thanks for posting it, awsum! This is my favorite part!
GOOD MORNING VOLTIES AND HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY 
Thanks for the coffee, I believe it was Tina a couple of pages back, and Rave, I bet you sneak into the woods like a little nymph and dance around with your woodland friends.
Not a lot going on around here today but it was nice to see Awsum chime in and wish us a Happy 4th - Back at you Roland.
You all know that I used to be a banker, but then I lost interest.
Wabbit
Thanks for the coffee, I believe it was Tina a couple of pages back, and Rave, I bet you sneak into the woods like a little nymph and dance around with your woodland friends.
Not a lot going on around here today but it was nice to see Awsum chime in and wish us a Happy 4th - Back at you Roland.
You all know that I used to be a banker, but then I lost interest.
Wabbit
GOOD MORNING VOLTIES AND HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY View attachment 227566
Thanks for the coffee, I believe it was Tina a couple of pages back, and Rave, I bet you sneak into the woods like a little nymph and dance around with your woodland friends.
Not a lot going on around here today but it was nice to see Awsum chime in and wish us a Happy 4th - Back at you Roland.
You all know that I used to be a banker, but then I lost interest.
Wabbit
You're welcome, Wabbit! I hope it was alright, as I don't make coffee very often! Have a great 4th of July, yourself!
Wow! What an awesome job you've done, 0mg Meniere! Here are the pictures of the trunk project that she sent me. Sorry, I tried resizing them, but they still are looking big on here.
I hope that I have them in the correct order. If not, let me know.
I hope that I have them in the correct order. If not, let me know.
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I don't generally subscribe to the idea that people are responsible for the sins of their ancestors, but in this case repairing my mother's mistake has been a joy.
The first two pix were actually taken at the same time. After discovering what paint removal was going to entail, I concentrated on the back. Once I discovered that the damage to the original finish was too severe for an authentic restoration, I decided to go for an approximate one, keeping the black and grey color theme. Yesterday I was doing the black detail-work. It is waiting for the new leather handles. Then I will get the inside done. Then I will make a decision on the finish for the outside wood-work,
When we were negotiating the property part of the estate, my sister made me promise I would take good care of it. No problem.
Thanks, Tina.
The first two pix were actually taken at the same time. After discovering what paint removal was going to entail, I concentrated on the back. Once I discovered that the damage to the original finish was too severe for an authentic restoration, I decided to go for an approximate one, keeping the black and grey color theme. Yesterday I was doing the black detail-work. It is waiting for the new leather handles. Then I will get the inside done. Then I will make a decision on the finish for the outside wood-work,
When we were negotiating the property part of the estate, my sister made me promise I would take good care of it. No problem.
Thanks, Tina.
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I don't generally subscribe to the idea that people are responsible for the sins of their ancestors, but in this case repairing my mother's mistake has been a joy.
The first two pix were actually taken at the same time. After discovering what paint removal was going to entail, I concentrated on the back. Once I discovered that the damage to the original finish was too severe for an authentic restoration, I decided to go for an approximate one, keeping the black and grey color theme. Yesterday I was doing the black detail-work. It is waiting for the new leather handles. Then I will get the inside done. Then I will make a decision on the finish for the outside wood-work,
When we were negotiating the property part of the estate, my sister made me promise I would take good care of it. No problem.
Thanks, Tina.
Glad that you enjoyed this project! You are welcome!
hi volties...would like to wish you all a happy 4th....sounds like a fun time..are you allowed to let off your own fire works? like can you buy from a store ?
Hello and thank you, Deb! Depends on what they are, here in Wisconsin, Deb! I think we can have sparklers and little things. Anything big is forbidden, but the police don't do anything about it, really. I've only seen them sold at tents in the parking lots of some businesses.
It varies widely. Some states prohibit them altogether, others let towns set their own rules and laws. Wisconsin is in the second group. Just off the interstate, there is a store that is open all year, in a town that prohibits them!!
It's ironic, isn't it Meniere? I remember when Walmart in Rockton, IL, stopped selling any type of fireworks. I don't know if the one in Beloit, WI, does anymore. I only know about the Rockton one because my husband works there.
I like snow. It makes winter more visually interesting. When there's no snow, hereabouts it's a dull gray and brown. Of course driving in it can be a challenge, but they clear the roads quickly, so I just wait out a snowstorm and then go out when it's over and they've had time to plow. The only problem there is if the snow is powdery and it's windy. Then the snow will blow across fields and drift right back on spots on the road faster than the plow can come by and take care of it.
Rave.. thanks for the info, but I think you persuaded me to not get those.. ever. I don't mind pets that take some extra care, but I don't like keeping communal pets in solitary. I prefer a single pet at a time, so that would become way too much.
As for fireworks, it's probably a good thing they are illegal in NY, because I'd likely be missing some fingers or a hand if they weren't.
As for fireworks, it's probably a good thing they are illegal in NY, because I'd likely be missing some fingers or a hand if they weren't.
Well, ladies and gents, it's checkout time for me. It's been fun and I will be back, unless Raven tells me not to come back.
I love that painting. I wish you knew who the artist is.
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