[Texas Fossil]

From your profile:

“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”

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To the point.

Felt the weight of your profile was dead on for this topic of discussion.

Thanks

[familyop]

Thanks for the thanks. I’m near what most consider to be retirement age.

I’m relatively poor but won’t be idle and won’t complain about it. It’s time to do some real work and tinkering. Tomorrow won’t be for the licensed, authorized young folks of gossiping political regulator families (those local folks watching their neighbors more than themselves). It will be for those with honesty and technical trade abilities.

In my tenth grade American history class, our teacher once began the day’s class with, “You’re all spoiled rotten.” He was right about most of us back then. He was right about many of us Baby Boomers since then.

Daughter and I back-filled our gravity-fed water system in the middle of frozen nowhere with about 300 cubic yards of earth and rock with our hands and shovels. It would have been cheaper to have had a local backhoe operator do it, but we wanted to learn a few fundamental things, test ourselves and get stronger. No injuries and better health. [She’s an adult.]

We’re Americans.

Thanks again. Washington’s my favorite president from our history, BTW, and my great-grandfather was named after him. My first American ancestor, who landed on our northeast coast in 1669, was named after Abraham (and his first two sons after Isaac and Jacob).