The Fallen Tree

I hope you can follow this. I isn't exactly left to right. That would have made it easier.

Our neighbor, Norm, is an eccentric old guy in his 80's. Poor fellow doesn't get around very easily any more, but that does not stop him. He just keeps going. As a matter of fact, he drives around his yard on a mid sized tractor. He's not going to be left sitting in the house on a nice day. I love his spirit.

He often is doing something (often noisy) next door when we have company for dinner. This night, he had decided to cut a tree in his yard...why, I don't know. It was a perfectly good tree and I don't think it was in anyone's way. But I digress. He had hired a man who helps him now and then and gave him a chain saw. Norm, a master of leverage, etc. tied the tree by a big rope to a pulley and cranked it tight, then shouted for his worker to cut the tree. I don't know if he miscalculated or what, but the tree fell across our yard and just missed one of our rental houses...but is did miss the boat house. There wasn't much damage done. Just blocked our way to the lake and naturally we had a boating party ready to go down to the boat. This is the same night we had our friend out who had polio as a youth and needs some assistance getting down to the water.

Everything worked out fine and Ron went over and helped him clear the mess that was left the next day.

It's a blessing to have good neighbors, but they just don't happen.

We need to get along to some extent. Poor Arizona is suffering terribly because some in our government have decided that whatever our neighbors to the south do to us, we will just turn the other way and ignore them, hoping crime will go away and they will start liking us and everything will just be peachy. It doesn't always work that way. Often neighbors will take advantage of us. In the case of Arizona. They've been over run, robbed and even killed by those who have no respect for a country that fails to enforce it's borders.

Arizona has a big problem and it is bigger that Mexico...it is our federal government.

The Patriot Post sent out a quote today from Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833.

"In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter cannot exist without them."

In other words, those in Washington had better fear losing their states. They need to 'wake up and smell the coffee'. Some states are mad as heck and they 'aren't going to take it any more'. I'm praying more of them stand up and talk back to the tyrannical rule from the big fists in Washington. They can live without Washington, especially since they are not being protected from illegal aliens by them. But Washington cannot exist without states to govern.