An advertisement-free blog about motorcycling, Northern life, home improvement, power plants, submarines, nuclear stuff, and a few other off-beat subjects. Comments are welcome. (Image is the Selway Crags in Northern Idaho)
"Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases. Neither is it merely the opportunity to chose between a set of alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices - and then the opportunity to choose." - C. Wright Mills
"Don't seek that all that comes about should come about as you wish, but that everything that comes about should come about just as it does, and then you'll have a calm and happy life." - Epictetus
So I had an entire day off, and made the best of it. The tomato plants got chopped off and the half-ripe tomatoes got pitched into the forest for the deer. The grass got a final mowing, and the mower got winterized. The sprinklers got blown dry with the air hose, as did the garden hoses, which were then stored. The water trough got cleaned and the immersion heater installed in it.
I did not yet bring in the wasp traps, re-tarp the RV, plant the snow markers, install the winter tires on the Subaru, replace the batteries in the smoke detectors, or do a fall burn, there just isn't enough time for everything in one day. But one day was all that I had.
"Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and the measureless gulf of eternity behind it and before, and upon the frailty of everything material." - Marcus Aurelius
"Be a free-thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in." - Aristotle.
"Everybody wants to be big, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy-ass weight." - Ronnie Coleman (Champion Bodybuilder)
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare." - Samuel Longhorn Clemens, AKA Mark Twain
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed." - Jonathan Swift
