OK yall, this is stuff to clutter up yalls brains.
Did yall know that the word SET has the most definitions in the English Oxford dictionary.
This is a good word for yall: “Ough” can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: “A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully. But they forgot got the fish called Orange Roughy.
Now for you rhyming poetry writers: No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple. Course I call purple urple.
And lastly for you Lone Ranger fans out there: “Kemo Sabe” means “soggy shrub” in Navajo
Couz fell last week and has been in the hospital. She has severe stenosis of her neck vertebra and it’s squeezing the spinal cord to her brain so the hospital decided to keep her and fix the problem.
She’s had one surgery, very painful, and will do the second may be next week.
Wild Child sleeping
She looks soo sweet when she’s sleeping – however. I’ve had her almost a year and living w/ Wild Child has been an ad-venture.
“There is great disorder in the heavens – but the cat still naps.”
Also clutter destroys good ch’i, there-fore one must shove all clutter off the sleeping surface w/ one’s hind legs.
Yester-day I was folding up a large tote bag and Wild Child wanted to play – well, one of the handles got a-round her neck and she couldn’t shake it off. She started running like a bat out of h*** all over every-where. I couldn’t catch her and she ended up under the bed. She managed to get that pesky handle off so I got it out of the way. She would not come out from under the bed even w/ a lot of coaxing. When she did she was looking for that “animal” to see if it was going to “attack” her again. She finally came over to me and laid down on the floor very close to me. It took her a looong time to finally calm down – poor little thang.
Now for the trivia: did yall know that the world’s largest alpha-bet is Cambodian w/ 74 letters. Wow, and I have ’nuff problems ‘membering the order of the English alpha-bet.
And this one: the word “set” has the highest number of unique defintions in the English language – 192 according to the Oxford Eng Dictionary.
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The Boeing 747’s wing span is longer than the Wright brothers’ first flight!
OK yall, are yall hung-ovah from yalls Saternalia week-end? Have yall managed to make it in-to work in a vertical position? And how ’bout yalls heads? are they pounding. Did yalls boss make it in-to work?
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Can yall even read this post? How ’bout the eye chart, did yall know the top letter is an “E”?
“Nuff of this, how ’bout some trivia? Did yall know that an ant can lift 50 times its own weight? I’m doing good to be able to lift Wild Child and she’s not over weight either. She has found a new item to shred – my shower curtain:
shredded shower curtain
I guess I’ll get some decorative duct tape and repair it ’cause it would be a waste of money to buy a new one. Wild Child would shred the new one.
First of all: our heat index is suppose to be ’bout 105º to=day. May=be I’ll just stay in the the a/c w/ a fan too.
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This will thrill all yall people who sleep on mattresses – the average mattress contains 2 million dust mites. Ain’t these the ugliest thangs evah and we are sleeping w/ them.
Speaking of ugly bugs – Mexican jumping beans jump ’cause of a moth larvae inside the bean.
Yall just can’t imagine what kind of blogs are out there in the blogisphere. Selvedges are the edges of fabrics that have information ’bout the fabric on them. Well, there are sewers who have been collecting and hoarding these scraps of left over fabrics after cutting what-evah out and now there are a bunch of blogs of what to do w/ these scraps. This reminds me of yarn bombing, especially this lamp. One crafty blogger covered a whole chair w/ this stuff. Ya know, some-body could sew all these bits and pieces to-gether and then make a garment out of it.
Hmmm! now what could I use to bomb some-thing. May-be that some-thing could be Wild Child? Oh, I know, how ’bout wrapping her in toilet paper? She would love to tear it off and my apartment would look like it snowed when she be done.
Last Friday nite the Carrollton Wind symphony played this year’s final concert. I alawys go ’cause Lay daughter plays the flute in it. This community band is rated one of the top 5 in America. They are as good as any professional wind symphony. I don’t know how to post videos yet so here is the youtube url. Oh weird, the concert piece showed up and it is is embedded in the post. They are playing “Seal Lullaby” and it’s beautiful. Enjoy.
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OK, now a bit of trivia: did yall know that the volume of the the moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific ocean.
This gorgeous yarn is Sausalito and Wild Child just loves playing w/ a skein if she can get her grubby little paws on it. If yall look closely at the top skein, it’s partially pulled apart. The ball next to it was a totally destroyed skein and it took me days and days to un-tangle. It may be that this this yarn is 80% marino wool and I think she has a thing for this type of animal.
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This is how the yarn looked after she “played” w/ it. Sooo, I know now to keep it in a drawer that she has not figured out how to open – YET!.
But she has her own ball of yarn she really likes and she manages to un-wind it and yarn is evah-where. I don’t think she realizes that I re-wind it and put it where she can find it, then she goes after it again.
OK yall, here’s an-other posting that I let fall in-to the ditch. It’s called luciferous logolepsy.
luciferous is an adj that means to enlighten
logolepsy is an addiction to words.
Sooo, we’re gwanna drag obscure and/or archaic words back in-to the light of day. Yall can use the words when standing a-round the water-coolers trading scuttle-butt.
My Mama use to say that there was always a cold spell just a-fore Easter and to never put a-way your cold clothes just yet. Sooo – Motherly Nature is doing her thing ’cause it will be turning cold, well what we think of cold, here.
Can yall be-lieve that we’re starting the 4th month of the year al-ready?
Wild Child & Bookcase
Wild Child, the last few nights, has been dancing on my body at 3a in the morning. She’s saying: ‘GET UP!, Let’s play.’ I keep pushing her off my body on-to the floor but she keeps at it until she figures out that I’m not in the mood to play. Now I’m ready for my morning nap. May-be she-ll let me sleep for a bit.
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It’s been a while so it’s time for some trivia:
Did yall know that the Sanskrit word for “war” means “desire for more cows?” Actually evah-body wants MORE of some-thing.
AND: your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks or it will digest its self.
My little baby girls is no longer a baby she’s all grown up now even though she still acts like a kitten. She’s 8 months old and from nose to tail she’s 30 in long. Long and sleek and still very play-full. I have to keep my yarn locked up cause she finds and carries a skein around in her mouth like it’s her latest prey.
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Speaking of knitting, I’m crocheting some scarves and selling them, that is if I can keep Wild Child off my lap and away from the yarn.
Then of course she decides she wants to practice chewing on my arm – OUCH!!!
I need some trivia, how ’bout yall? HMM – speaking of money, did yall know that in the 1700’s you could sell the skin of a buck for $1? Hence the term a buck for a dollar.
Well: gotta go cause it’s time for my morning nap.
Emma Lovelace 