It was a beautiful day on the Edge of Nowhere, the sun was out and the temperature peaked at about 75 degrees. Lovely. Shirt sleeve (and Christmas vest) kind of weather. We let the coals in the stove burn out, I will clean out the ash tomorrow and then we will be ready for the next cold snap. I took the plants out of the garage and the front barn, so it could well freeze overnight. The mice in the front barn do not even pretend to be afraid of me anymore, they just sit there and look at me like statues. I feel kind of bad, but they are due for eradication. We shall see. The chickens are still doing just fine, and the broody girl is still brooding, sitting on a wooden nest egg. Otherwise, it was a relatively unproductive day around the house. I took a couple naps, Jody and I went in to Georgetown for lunch and stopped at Tractor Supply for chicken feed and a flock block. I still want to try to take a couple bales of hay to the cattle tomorrow, we will see how that works out.Subpoena - Noun: a writ commanding a person designated in it to appear in court under a penalty for failure. "If we have to compel them to come in, then that's what we're going to do.' he said, referring to possible subpoenas." Sandra Tan, The Buffalo News, April 8, 2016
Did You Know? If you think you recognize the sub- in subpoena as the prefix meaning "under, beneath, below," you're on the right track. Subpoena arrived in Modern English (via the Middle English suppena) from the Latin sub poena, a combination of sub and poena, meaning "penalty." Other poena descendants in English include impunity ("freedom from penapenal ("of or relating to punishment"), and even punish. There is also the verb subpoena, as in "Defense lawyers have subpoenaed several witnesses to the crime."
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