2019 - Day 55/310 - Sunday...Surfeit...

I am facing the end of an era, and it makes me kind of sad. Since the first of the year, we have lost 13 chickens. It seems the coyotes have figured out where the chickens live. I think we are done. Once these chickens are gone, that is going to be the end. No more chickens. that also means no more chicken poop all over everything, no more cleaning the chicken coop, all kinds of stuff like that. There are pros and there are cons, but it looks like the end of the chicken era is at hand.

I made it back to Austin this afternoon from Palm Springs. This is a little door I went through. On the other hand, the little door made me feel bigger (taller) than I actually am, and it helped to make everyone boarding and walking down the aisle seem taller too. All in all, not a bad thing. I always wanted to be taller.

Surfeit -- Noun: 1. an overabundant supply: excess. 2. an intemperate or immoderate indulgence in something. 3. disgust caused by excess. The prose is weighed down by a surfeit of dense and obscure vocabulary.

Did You Know? There is an abundance of English words that derive from the Latin facere, meaning "to do." The connection to facere is fairly obvious for words such as sacrifice, benefaction, and infect. For words like stupefy (a modification of the Latin stupefacere) and hacienda (originally, in Old Spanish and Latin, facienda), the facere factor is not so apparent. As for surfeit, the c was dropped between Latin and Anglo-French, where facere became faire and sur- was added to make surfaire, meaning "to overdo." The Anglo-French noun surfet ("excess") entered Middle English and went through a number of spellings before settling on surfeit.