Sunday, March 3, 2019

2019 - Day 62/303 - Sunday...Perfidious...

Overnight, we should have temperatures below freezing for eight or nine hours. I think it will be the same thing overnight tomorrow night as well. All the plants are inside and hopefully protected. I may go out to the front barn later and put some kind of cover over those and maybe turn a heat lamp on them, just to do what I can to keep them from freezing. Hopefully the stuff in the garage will be okay. I think the iris will survive with no problem, but I have some concerns about some of the other stuff, particularly the palms. It is really kind of late in the season for those things, but it will be what it will be. All the pipes are covered and protected, so I am pretty sure all that stuff will not be a problem. Now if I could just find some chocolate!

Perfidious -- Adjective: of, relating to, or characterized by faithlessness or disloyalty. treacherous. It was revealed that a perfidious employee in the senator's office had leaked campaign strategies to the senator's opponent.

Did You Know? I won't lie to you about the history of perfidious - even though the word suggests deceit. The Modern English meaning of perfidious remains faithful to that of its Latin ancestor, perfidus, which means "faithless." English speakers have used perfidious to mean "treacherous" since at least the 16th century. One of the earliest known uses of the term can be found in Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well: the "perfidious slave" Parolles is thought to be an unreliable witness; he'll say whatever suits his purpose. In contemporary usage, perfidious implies treacherousness and an inability to be reliable or honorable.

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