The highest wind speed I noticed today was 34 miles per hour. I expect there were some gusts that were higher, but everything around the house is still standing. A few limbs down, but nothing serious. The winds are down now to about 10 miles per hour right now, and they are supposed to keep lessening through the night. There is a chance for a light freeze overnight, but we are (again) not expecting anything terrible. I expect we will survive. The northeast is getting hit with a lot of weather, we hope they all do well, we shall see. I ws outside bringing firewood in this afternoon, and the a couple of the neighbor's calves were very interested in what I was doing. If you look at the cross-eyed, they will scatter, but that does not keep them from being curious. In case you were wondering, this is where hamburgers come from.Pusillanimoun -- Adjective: lacking courage and resolution; marked by contemptible timidity. "Lately, however, some have shown themselves to be pusillanimous weaklings in defense of intellectual debate and plain old free speech." Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, December 27, 2016
Did You Know? Do you know someone who has a small, weak spirit, someone whose reserve of inner strength is too small to draw from in times of danger and adversity? If so, you'll find pusillanimous to be the perfect descriptor for that person. The Latin roots of this derisive adjective are pusillus, meaning "very small" (and related to pusus, meaning "boy"), and animus, which means "spirit." Pusillanimous gained notoriety in the 1970s when Vice President Spiro T. Agnew famously accused his ideological rivals of "pusillanimous pussyfooting."
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