"God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails." - St. Augustine

Every day is a blessing. Coming home from my fiat job and doing things around our homestead to make it a Citadel. Since Saturday, we've: Bottled beer (Scottish Cream Ale) Dehydrated apples and cayenne peppers (not together!) Canned chicken meat from Costco Topped off the batteries in all the things Thank you, Lord!

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." – P.J. O'Rourke

"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again." - Captain James Cook

"Our (U.S.) Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." – John Adams

Blackberry wine from 2023. It's aight. I was just getting started.

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today in History On October 29, 1929, a massive stock sell-off was part of a series of economic events that marked the beginning of the Great Depression.

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies." - John Adams