Monday - May 26, 2008
Memorial Day 2008
Send up a prayer for those who have fallen, for without their sacrifice you would not be living the life you have today. God bless them, and may their be as few more in the future as possible.
My posting will continue to be light today and for the next few days. I’m out working, sweatin in the sunshine. Which means it’s time to make hay. Or money! Thanks to Christopher and Peiper for lots of new and interesting posts.
Update!!
Rancino’s comment links to the Google woulda-shoulda-coulda-but-didnt website. So screw ‘em. From the submissions, I think this one is the best. Ten hut!! Sa lute!
On a more personal note, right now all I can smell is deck stain. I’m down 2 shirts, a ballcap, an old pair of jeans and a worn pair of shoes. Plus 2 paint rollers and a 4” brush maybe. But the decks are done, both of them. 32 hours labor. $25/hour. People, if you’re building a deck use that Trex stuff. It costs more up front, but it pays for itself because you don’t have to hire me every 4 years. And first class deck stain is $32 a gallon too. 10 1/2 gallons I went through in 4 days. Damn, I am exhausted. Two delicious Dogfish Head 90 minute IPAs (yummy yummy beer!!) and I’m ready to hit the hay. But I’ve got to get cleaned up, run 3 loads of laundry, cook dinner, run another load of dishes, and I really ought to vacuum a little. Tomorrow I’m back down there again, installing lattice. Then they want their windows done. And maybe some yard work. And the dog - my new buddy! - needs to go to the vet and they have no time. Gosh, I love working for yuppie lawyer couples like this. They have no time, but lots of money. And they’re eager to give it to my by the bagfull. Lovin it!
Updated update
I wanted to post some nice graphics for Memorial Day, but all I had were the following. But somehow, borrowing somebody else’s work just didn’t seem right, so I used what I had taken myself. This is from a trip we took last year, to a memorial so big it’s an entire national park. History buffs will recognize it instantly -
Because it hasn’t changed much in the past 145 years, though they’ve patched the bullet holes -
This is the gateway to the cemetary that Cemetary Ridge is named after. About 200 yards behind the building, a year after history passed through here one week in July, a very tall man once gave a short speech (sorry I didn’t take a better shot, but this plaque was not the center subject of the photo)
A few hundred yards off to the left, and down the hill a little, an enormous group of armed men once walked a mile uphill, in parade order and subject to intense cannon and rifle fire, under command of a man named Pickett, to fight for what they believed in. Very very few of them made it to the top, as thousands of their formerly fellow citizens, who believed in something entirely different, fought them to a standstill. In the course of an hour or so, thousands were killed or wounded, and the tide of an entire war was turned forever. One more memory kept alive by a holiday like today.
Posted by Drew458
on 05/26/2008 at 09:10 AM
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The first colour photographs from the German front line during World War One.
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Too True!
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Twas the Night Before
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