2019 - Day 149/216 - Wednesday...Habeas Corpus...

Last year when Joe and Carolyn were visiting, Carolyn gave me the idea of growing tomatoes in the empty molasses buckets we have around the farm. If you don't know, molasses buckets are big black plastic buckets that hold 250 pounds of molasses that the cattle think is something sent from heaven. In fact it is, since I am the one that delivers this stuff, they also think I am God. I am the cow God at the Estate on the Edge of Nowhere. But I digress. We tried that last year, but I think we were too late in the season for anything to prove successful. SO...this year, I asked Jody to buy three tomato plants one time when he was making his grocery list for HEB. Shortly thereafter, he came home with the three tomato plants, and soon thereafter, I transplanted them into a molasses bucket, the very same bucket I had conducted this experiment with last year. During the transplanting phase, it was determined that there were in fact TWO tomato plants and one pepper plant. We are an equal opportunity household, so the three non-related plants were all put into the molasses bucket. We actually have tomatoes that we will harvesting in the next few days, assuming that squirrels, raccoons or some other specie of vermin do not get them first. We are VERY EXCITED!

Habeas Corpus -- Noun. 1. a writ issued to bring a party before a court. 2. the right to obtain such a writ as protection against illegal imprisonment. His lawyers claim he is being unlawfully detained and have filed a habeas corpus petition with the court.

Did You Know? "You should have the body." That's the literal meaning of the Latin habeas corpus, but to anyone wrongfully imprisoned, it can mean a chance to correct a violation of personal liberty. In simplest terms, a writ of habeas corpus is an order commanding one who holds a person in custody to bring that individual before the court for some specific reason. The most common is habeas corpus ad subjiciendum, also known as the Great Writ, by which an imprisoned person can challenge the legality of his or her custody before the court. Such orders were part of British legal systems at least as long ago as the reign of Henry VII (1485-1509), and the right to habeas corpus was considered so fundamental that it was written into Article I of the United States Constitution.