Celebrate the Day
Shows, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires
Forward forever!

John Adams wrote to his wife, suggesting that the day of a Declaration of Independency, “will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival”,

Adams continued, “The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.”

The vote we all have seen in the movies was taken on July 2nd, 1776, approved this resolution originally introduced by Richard Henry Lee, “Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”

The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House (now known as Independence Hall) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776.

Cover me with grits and call me stupid but I still love the scene regardless of how inaccurate it is.

There is a majestic poetry in the roll call.

Runaway truck ramps!
See them on mountain highways.
Why not daily life?

You see these in the mountains.

The last place you want to be is between one and a runaway truck.

Until I looked them up online, I didn’t realize there were 4 major types:

Arrester bed: a gravel-filled ramp adjacent to the road that uses rolling resistance to stop the vehicle. The required length of the bed depends on the mass and speed of the vehicle, the grade of the arrester bed, and the rolling resistance provided by the gravel.

Gravity escape ramp: a long, upwardly inclined path parallel to the road. Substantial length is required. Control can be difficult for the driver; problems include rollback after the vehicle stops.

Sand pile escape ramp: a short length of loosely piled sand. Problems include sudden, forceful deceleration; sand being affected by weather conditions (moisture and freezing); and vehicles vaulting and/or overturning after contacting the sand pile.

Mechanical-arrestor escape ramp: a proprietary system of stainless-steel nets transversely spanning a paved ramp to engage and retard a runaway vehicle. Ramps of this type are typically shorter than gravity ramps, and can work even on a downhill grade. These systems tend to be costly, but may save expensive real estate in crowded areas, and prevent even more costly crashes.

The purpose of the ramp is the same regardless of design and that is that the ramp allows a moving vehicle’s kinetic energy to be dissipated gradually in a controlled and relatively harmless way, helping the operator to stop it safely without a violent crash.

Sounds like just the thing for every day life.

Maybe there is an app for that or maybe I should design one.

On a sun-kissed day
invested in the action
full of fight, spirit

Oh for a Saturday in the South.

Are there better words for a days weather than sun-kissed?

But the rain is coming so I sally forth to battle the yard and mow the lawn.