Fixing fence is the one of the hardest jobs on a ranch. I no longer live on a ranch, but I do know what hard work is. Fences are everyone's concern, but nowadays,the "hole" is always your neighbor's side not your own. It used to be that you would respect your neighbor and mend the fence together. If their cows got in your field, a simple phone call resolved the problem. You might even saddle up your own horse and help them gather them up. We need more people who are willing to roll their sleeves up and fix the fence regardless of who your neighbor is. There are people in this country who need to be reminded that a fence is like the way you should conduct your life. Your posts should be straight and neat. The wire needs to be stretched tight and your gate might be closed, but can still be easily opened. And most of all, we can all saddle up together and ride the range, it won't matter if you have an Appaloosa, Quarter Horse or Thoroughbred. The cows still have to be gathered, fences have to be fixed, and the range is a wide open space of opportunity for us all.

The Gettysburg Address

Posted Tuesday, November 19, 2013, at 9:15 PM

Never forget what price freedom has wrought upon the world and this nation.

Today was the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

With your permission, I am going to share his words with you:

The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln

"Fore score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

In honor of this anniversary, I am sharing my blog with President Lincoln. His words and wisdom far exceed my own capabilities.

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I wonder if Lincoln mispelled fore score or whoever was taking notes? Four score and seven years ago translates to 87 years. A little known fact.

-- Posted by Geordey on Wed, Nov 20, 2013, at 4:13 PM
That's a good question Geordey. Lincoln spelled it correctly as "Four score and seven years ago". There are images of the documents which he copied by hand in order to provide copies to others.

Some web sites mistakenly have "Fore score" maybe because they are thinking of forefathers. They seem to be more conservative web sites. One of my very conservative nephews erred in the opposite way and referred to our "four fathers" rather than forefathers.

The reaction to the Gettysburg Address at the time was mixed.

"Newspapers critical of the President had snide things to say about the speech's brevity and inappropriateness to the occasion. Lincoln supporters, on the other hand, published glowing reviews and noted the classical elegance and heartfelt emotion of the address."

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/gettysburg/ideas_more.htm

It seems that things don't change much.

-- Posted by Sam_1776 on Thu, Nov 21, 2013, at 4:41 PM
Well seven score and ten years ago, Abe Lincoln made a great speech and spelled "four" correctly. Myaybe KH Gal could correct her spelling error?

-- Posted by Geordey on Fri, Nov 22, 2013, at 10:59 AM
Thanks Bonnie! Good read

-- Posted by jessiemiller on Fri, Nov 22, 2013, at 7:03 PM

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