2019 - Day 75/290 - Saturday...Usufruct...

I got the front of the barn finished, and half of the road side done. The front was the most difficult part because of all the bric-a-brac here and there...too many corners and odd angles. My favorite part of the paint job is looking at it far away. Looks great. Don't pay too much attention to the detail if you get close to it. However, I think it looks very nice, much better than it did. It is kind of a shabby chic, with a lot of emphasis on the shabby part. I was careful to be on guard of the skunk today, but no sign of it, other than the stink from yesterday. Tomorrow I hope to finish the road side and the back side of the barn, then do some prep work on the house side. I have checkin pens to dismantle and stuff like that, so that will take a bit of time. I have some plants to get into the ground, too, so I need to save some time for that. No skunk (as previously mentioned), but you never know what kind of skeletal remains you might find around here. You just never know.

Usufruct -- Noun. 1. the legal right of using and enjoying the fruits or profits of something belonging to another. 2. the right to use or enjoy something. "When there's no will, the state of Louisiana gives the surviving spouse a usufruct on the property." Mary Anna Evans, Plunder, 2012

Did You Know? Thomas Jefferson said, "The earth belongs in usufruct to the living." He apparently understood that when you hold something in usufruct, you gain something of significant value, but only temporarily. The word developed from the Latin phrase usus et frectus, which means "use and enjoyment." Latin speakers condensed that phrase to ususfructus, the term English speakers used as the model for our modern word. Usufruct has been used as a noun for the legal right to use something since the mid-1600s. Any right granted by usufruct ends at a specific point, usually the death of the individual who holds it.