Late afternoon yesterday, outside doing stuff, stopped doing what I was doin, how cool is that, watching reach up towards the sky, probably lookin like Oddball.
Had a front row seat
Was telling ratdog, dog what you are seeing is a promise:
Genesis 9:13-17
I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”
Took a sip of my Vernors, it’s then I said, out loud mind you ” aww crap”.
The term ” come hell or high water came to mind, with Genesis in mind, something crossed my mind, as in…. well if it’s not gonna be high water, kinda narrows it down bit, sips Vernors.
Enjoying your morning coffee?
I have a coffee story for you while keeping in the prices of things in today’s economy. When George and boys were not taking care of business
“SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS”
What was it like at home for the ladies and families.
They were also taking care of business
THE FEMALE FOOD RIOTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Between 1776 and 1779, food shortages caused more than 30 food riots in the American colonies. Angry men and women accosted merchants who hoarded, overcharged or monopolized coffee, tea, sugar or flour.
In Boston, East Hartford and Beverly, Mass., women led some of the food riots. They were trying to manage farms, families and shops while their husbands were away fighting the war. To make matters worse, they could buy few scarce imports as the war cut off trade with the West Indies.
As one farmer complained, “This is the very same oppression that we complain of Great Britain!”
An otherwise patriotic merchant, Thomas Boylston, had tried to drive up the price of coffee and sugar by keeping them off the market. On July 24, 1777, a horde of angry women confronted him, demanding he charge a reasonable price for coffee.
He refused. Wrote Abigail, “a number of females, some say a hundred, some say more, assembled with a cart and trucks, marched down to the warehouse, and demanded the keys, which he refused to deliver.” When Boylston stood up to the women, “one of them seized him by his neck and tossed him into the cart. Upon his finding no quarter, he delivered the keys, when they tipped up the cart and discharged him, then opened the warehouse, hoisted out the coffee themselves, put it into the trucks and drove off.”
The Beverly Sugar Riot
In November 1777, women in Beverly, Mass., meted out justice to merchants who refused to accept paper money for sugar., which happened on a cold November morning.
About 60 women wearing lambskin cloaks with riding hoods marched in order down Main and Bartlett streets, he wrote. Led by three or four women, one bearing a musket, they went down to the wharves with two ox carts.
The women then went to the ‘distil-house,’ where sugar belonging to the late Stephen Cabot, had been stored.
The foreman locked the gates. The women then ‘called to their aid a reinforcement of men, who, with axes, soon demolished the gates.’
Stone snarkily called them ‘gentle expounders of “women’s rights”’ — forced open the doors and rolled out two hogsheads of sugar. They then put them on their carts. Other merchants, seeing the turmoil, started negotiating with the women. In the end, they agreed to sell their sugar for paper money.
Old stories make for fun reading what people went through in their time, is our time so different, not really. They want American history wiped out.
Do notice who’s on the flank
