"The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." attributed to Margaret Thatcher
"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government." Thomas Jefferson
A big black dog staring back at me ready for one more trip to the log pile before lights out. Muddy flip flops in the entrance way and an empty loop of rope I use to carry wood from the wood pile to the house.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
If there was a window, I'd be looking into the garage... My space. My tools, my workbench, my treasure trove of antique rusty metal things that aren't used much anymore, but since I know and respect the men that wore the handles smooth I simply can't part with them.
I won't ever have a use for a hayfork, but my father-in-law used that very one, wearing the knobs off the tines when he was a boy on the farm.
I'll never vulcanize a patch on a tube, but I have the clamp used by my wife's uncle on his farm.
I have several planes, bit and brace sets, handsaws, vices, clamps, tinworking tools, automotive tools, power tools from the '40s made out of solid metal...
Why am I on this computer? I'm going to my shop... Bye
"Whatever you are, be a good one." ~ Abraham Lincoln