Wednesday, March 11, 2009
The U.S. Congress
Sometimes I hear reports from sources telling me we have a "do nothing Congress". They seem to indicate that is bad thing. I just don't get it. Why is that necessarily bad?
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King Log beats King Stork anyday.
Especially if you're French.
Yup, know those Kings. Take care of what you've already done first and then let's see the lay of the land.
French, ummm. I do recall running into one of their tribe once. Couldn't get the conversation past saying the word France.
I didn't have an "in" for doing work in France. I did hear that an Archaeo crew would do the morning work, go to lunch, get into the wine and not return sometimes. Sounded good to me at the time.
I did get an "in" for doing work in your neck of the woods, not easy, especially with no degree. If I had been younger maybe. Although I was ready to hook up with an outfit based out of Hawaii. I had an "in". Fly the crews to various islands in the South Pacific, had to sign on for two years. I liked the idea and said so to The Wife, who by that time was out of the field work. I promised to send smiling lagoon pictures from the sunny islands as I hoboed around. I think I blew it right there.
Where I live, pick a spot and dig, you'll find archaeology.
Two miles to the east of me is the "Cat Stane", a neolithic standing stone re-used as a headstone for a Romano-British chieftain(Ceath is gaelic for battle).Less then a mile to the south is a burial mound called Huly hill.About thirty yards from that a bronze age chariot burial was found.
About a hundred and fifty yards to the north there is a Norman Kirk that probably was a Roman watchtower(The three Kirks from the the village to south to the town to the north are all in a ruler straight line).
The house I live in was built on the site of a military camp of King Edward I.
But that's a story in itself.
Careful dude, you're talking serious dirt to me. That stuff gets me all excited.
OMG,OMG....Swampblossom (The Wife)
Yeah that was her, as she walked out of my cave, she said "I'm going to his house with shovel in hand and it ain't going to be no short handled one." What a woman. :-) She's the educated one in the house, short a couple 300 level courses for a dual degree, History and Anthropology, with honors and she did it after raising a family. She is one hell of a woman and I am one lucky sob. I always said it would take an Anthropologist to live with me and I was right. She's the one that knows that stuff you speak of, I call it white man shit. ;-) But I'm drooling too.
Heh.
Good Evening/Morning Swampblossom.
The other story.
There are two hills, my house on the lesser one, the kirk on the higher.
King Edward would probably have been housed in the kirk with his knights, but the main body(the horses, the sergeants, the infantry, the Welsh)
would have been on my hill.
Wallace was carrying out the normal delaying tactics,
burning crops driving off cattle etc.and the English were starving.
Then came a ship at Queensferry, full of supplies.
(remember the northern town? look up the Forth bridges)
Unfortunately for them the cargo was wine. Only wine.
The nobles on the higher hill got most of the cargo.
The Welsh got two hogsheads.They were starving, and they got drunk.
And angry.
Night fell, and they attacked the nobles.
Longbowmen won English battles all through the middle ages.
But they fought their battles during the day, at long range.
Hand to hand, at that time, they fought with camping mallets, hatchets and eating knives.
Against Knights with longswords they were slaughtered.
So.
There is a burial pit of at least seventy Welsh longbowmen within five minutes walk of my house.
But nobody knows where it is...
Watch out your window for a little old lady with a shovel in one hand and a trowel in the other.....that would be me, Swampblossom LOL
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