Hmmmm... maybe I wasn't clear. I don't mean blinking like some Christmas tree lights, but the flame-shaped bulbs with two filaments that light up alternately, so they look a bit like a candle flame. I don't know if they make battery-powered ones like that or not.
Naw, I got it. They do make the flickering kind battery-operated, but as real flame doesn't follow a rigid pattern, I have never liked the flickering lights as not having sufficiently flowing movement.
Good fun with vocabulary at The Guardian! I learned a new word, namely "psepology," the study of elections, from the Greek word for a small stone, which was used to cast a vote. I ran across the word in the phrase "psepological soothsayers." I was also moved to (for the first time, I believe) discover the etymology of "ineluctable." In-(=not)+e-(=ex, out of)+lucere(to fight). (I think I have the infinitive right--will check on that and get back. So, something one can't fight one's way out of; inescapable; inevitable.
I misread "to fight" as "to light." Which would make sense because, as I have just confirmed, "lucre" means "to shine." The origin of the word "lucent."
Only time I was ever flooded into my house was in Cazadero. Which averages 110" of rain a year. And that flood wouldn't have happened except for the bridge footers in the river. Which allowed the debris from a long dry period to make a defacto dam in the middle of the river. Tell ya though--very odd feeling to step on an oriental carpet which is under water. . . .
That would do it, all right. I remember long ago driving/riding along the Russian River on the way to the coast (to dive for abalone), and noticing that all the old houses were on high ground. Guerneville gets flooded frequently, but that’s the price of doing business with all the summer visitors. I liked going to the Union Hotel in Occidental—AKA “Calorie Canyon” for the family-style Italian restaurants.
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ReplyDeleteHaving a FABULOUS Family Weekend!! More when I can. :-)
ReplyDeleteAlan, no, they don't flicker (thank heaven!).
ReplyDeleteHmmmm... maybe I wasn't clear. I don't mean blinking like some Christmas tree lights, but the flame-shaped bulbs with two filaments that light up alternately, so they look a bit like a candle flame. I don't know if they make battery-powered ones like that or not.
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Naw, I got it. They do make the flickering kind battery-operated, but as real flame doesn't follow a rigid pattern, I have never liked the flickering lights as not having sufficiently flowing movement.
DeleteGood fun with vocabulary at The Guardian! I learned a new word, namely "psepology," the study of elections, from the Greek word for a small stone, which was used to cast a vote. I ran across the word in the phrase "psepological soothsayers." I was also moved to (for the first time, I believe) discover the etymology of "ineluctable." In-(=not)+e-(=ex, out of)+lucere(to fight). (I think I have the infinitive right--will check on that and get back. So, something one can't fight one's way out of; inescapable; inevitable.
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"luctari," to fight. Fourth group verb. Obviously the source of the Spanish "luchar."
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I misread "to fight" as "to light." Which would make sense because, as I have just confirmed, "lucre" means "to shine." The origin of the word "lucent."
Deletelucre = lucere
DeleteAnother beautiful day here; don't believe the self-serving news media hysterics about how California is being sluiced into the Pacific Ocean.
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Only time I was ever flooded into my house was in Cazadero. Which averages 110" of rain a year. And that flood wouldn't have happened except for the bridge footers in the river. Which allowed the debris from a long dry period to make a defacto dam in the middle of the river. Tell ya though--very odd feeling to step on an oriental carpet which is under water. . . .
ReplyDeleteThat would do it, all right. I remember long ago driving/riding along the Russian River on the way to the coast (to dive for abalone), and noticing that all the old houses were on high ground. Guerneville gets flooded frequently, but that’s the price of doing business with all the summer visitors. I liked going to the Union Hotel in Occidental—AKA “Calorie Canyon” for the family-style Italian restaurants.
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I did truly love that place. If I could possibly have figured out how to keep living there in the redwoods, I would have done it!
DeleteYou know, I don't knit any more, but if I did. . . . If you know *anyone* who does, send them here: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/fox-paws
ReplyDeleteThis is just utterly wonderful, marvelous, etc.