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Today's set of words that I would have thought were etymologically related but actually are not: salve (in the sense of, e.g., stuff you rub on bee stings, or, in my grandfather's usage, viscous fluid substances you put on food) and salvation.
Today down the pipe from biblegateway.com: the book of Ruth, which is the first of the mercifully short books, and ( a welcome return to humanity. )
Currently at Havelock: -1.3. Long, slow, reluctant spring this year. Snow on the ground for what you'd like to think will be the last time this spring (and the purple finches have come right back to the feeder after yesterday's snow, just like they did the last time the snow returned, last month) but there was snow on the ground around here in the first week of May last year. Good for maple syrup, anyway, which has gone well enough this year (despite some mishaps and an ECG in the emergency room) that, unlike last year, I'm planning on doing it again next year. Three batches of fifteen gallons of sap each should yield a gallon of syrup. That seems like an OK way to cap off the winter every year.
Today down the pipe from biblegateway.com: the book of Ruth, which is the first of the mercifully short books, and ( a welcome return to humanity. )
Currently at Havelock: -1.3. Long, slow, reluctant spring this year. Snow on the ground for what you'd like to think will be the last time this spring (and the purple finches have come right back to the feeder after yesterday's snow, just like they did the last time the snow returned, last month) but there was snow on the ground around here in the first week of May last year. Good for maple syrup, anyway, which has gone well enough this year (despite some mishaps and an ECG in the emergency room) that, unlike last year, I'm planning on doing it again next year. Three batches of fifteen gallons of sap each should yield a gallon of syrup. That seems like an OK way to cap off the winter every year.
