The FReeper Foxhole Profiles General Hugh Mercer - October 16th, 2004

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[Professional Engineer]

Not her FReepin', but domestic duties were king today. Mainly yard work. ;-(

[Professional Engineer]

Once she gets moving you are gonna be run ragged. LOL

We are so not prepared for her to be moving around, but I'm really looking forward to it.

[Soaring Feather]

Oh yes, yard work! The leaves are falling like crazy now and it rained today, kinda cold and nasty here.

[Soaring Feather]

Yup, she is a very precious child. :-)

She will make you laugh and cry and she is all yours.

[Valin]

"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants."
A. Whitney Brown

[Professional Engineer]

It was a gorgeous day here, a break from all the recent rain. Dogone fire ants are driving me nuts, however. I just found a bite on my leg.

Hopefully today was the last lawn mowing until spring.

[Professional Engineer]

ROFL

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks for the link to his grandson.

It is also nice that you can trace your roots back to the birth of our nation.

[snippy_about_it]

Better late than never. :-)

[snippy_about_it]

Bitty Girl stood up on her own power yesterday.

Yeah. You're going to get lots of exercise real soon!

[SAMWolf]

Evening Phil Dragoo

My great-to-the-fifth grandfather listed on the Ft. Pitt pay sheet for 1774 courtesy of the Daughters of the American Revolution

Not knowing anything further back than my grandparents, I find things like this so amazing. It has to feel good knowing where you came from.:-)

Excellent commentary comparing real leaders in our history to the leader wannabes of today.

[SAMWolf]

I guess the Soviets found out just how many divisions the Pope had.

:-) Good one.

[SAMWolf]

Evening PE.

[SAMWolf]

Care to guess which Bitty Girl stood up on her own power yesterday?

Oh! Oh! She's getting ready to get mobile on you!

[SAMWolf]

Can't I just drool for a year or two?

Mary Ann had that effect on guys. :-)

[SAMWolf]

Hopefully today was the last lawn mowing until spring.

My lawn mowing season is just getting started. :-(

[Iris7]

I see that General Mercer was a man of class, a good soldier, and with a firm grip on right and wrong. Exactly what you expect from a Jacobite.

Another famous Revolutionary War Jacobite was the father of the United States Navy, John Paul Jones (not his real name - he used the pseudonym to protect his family in Scotland from interrogation, confiscation, and proscription.)

I speculate that if by some miracle the young Charles Edward Stuart had prevailed over George the Second in 1745 then George III would and could not have pushed the American Colonies into rebellion. He would have lacked the prestige to force the issue on the Whigs and Edmund Burke after Scotland's successful succession.

Marxists are wrong about history being inevitable.

[Iris7]

Impressive, Mr. Dragoo.

Can't find any ancestors not here in 1800 myself. Probably all earlier. Brag, Brag, Brag!!!!

Actually they were all frontier subsistence farmers as far as I can determine, with "not a pot to p--- in", as my Dad put it. Not seen as very respectable by town folk, although very religious and totally moral.

My Dad's mother remembered her grandmother telling her of her mother taking all of the family to the County Seat in the farm wagon (all day trip) to watch the hangings.

Felons were dealt with in those days.

[E.G.C.]

BTT!!!!!!