i deleted the line from my post that said–

no, no lime gin for me, thanks.

lol.

and this area is more known for ummmmm ’smoke’ than moonshine…..though we won’t be partaking any of that either.

something like 2/5 people are involved in the commerce in the counties around here….very poor area. supplemental income.

see ya, and nice post.

Charlemagne’s strong point was morals. He was so moral that some people thought he was only fooling. These people came to no good. Naturally, he wanted to improve others, notably the heathen saxons, who had stored an immense treasure in a hollow tree called the Irminsul in honor of Woden, or Irmin for short. So he paid them a visit, baptized them all and chopped down the Irminsul, and out fell the contents right into Charlemagne’s lap.
And was he surprised! Well they asked for it.
Then he improved the Avars, who had been hoarding great heaps of gold inside a perfectly impregnable fortress, or thats what they thought. He also looked over the Sorbs and the Wiltzes, but they turned out to be hopeless. They were stony broke. When ever he decided to help somebody’s morals, people would bury their small change and hide in the swamps and forests. Charlemagne had a firm grasp of fundamentals. He has therefore been called the first of the moderns.

As a side note to Ratfood, I heard the Saxons also invented the violin. And to this day there are still Saxon violins.