Way OT, some interesting video.

what'cha building these day Doug? ;~)

That was part of the intent. Not everyone trusted the government. Should they have?

Correct. It was seen as the last defense against tyranny.

The government has no problems taking up arms against its people. Various Policing depts love to out power the civies, and drive bullet proof vehicles and suit up with kevlar. Equal rights?

So have you built a nice crossbow from wood or wood and bamboo yet?

What do you use for your arrows, steel billet or ash?

Have you tried a pistol version yet?

So no action of government can in your mind justify taking up arms against it? Selling women into slavery, making soap out of Jews, eating babies? None of that would justify it, we should just go along voting out tweedledum and voting in tweedledee, whose major point of political contention is whether babies are best served fried or baked, and get on with our lives, those of us who are not women, Jews, or babies and thus still have lives?

It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from it's government."

-- Thomas Paine

Leon wrote in news:17Sdnc2dLtsaFiPLnZ2dnUU7- snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

Lots of plumbing and rough carpentry the last few weeks. SWMBO and I bought a fixer-upper to downsize into -- kids are grown and out of the house, and we don't need a big house and big yard any more. After a year of searching, we found *exactly* the property we wanted, except that it's not move-in ready.

Cool! At least when you are finished you will know what's what about the house. We did it a little differently. We moved out and upsized, and built. Our son bought us out. :-). We house hunted for 25 years and like you found the one that filled our needs. Good luck!