Today is actually Jody's birthday, so if you happen to see him, wish him 'Happy Birthday'. That is not an April Fools Day joke. True dat! The iris are starting to bloom in full force. It seems like every day there are more blooms, not just iris, but the poppies are getting ready to burst forth, and there are blooms of things that I forgot I planted. The unfortunate reality is that the chickens kept things from thriving in the landscape; they were really interested in scratching and consuming, so the fact that the new chicks will be more confined should help the flora get some roots down.Frowsy -- Adjective. 1. musty, stale. 2. having a slovenly or uncared-for appearance. "Clad in a frowsy graying wig, Ryder has a lot of the same moxie I loved in golden girls like Bea Arthur and Nancy Walker.: Bryan VanCampen, Ithaca.com, August 22, 2017
Did You Know? The exact origins of this approximately 330-year-old word may be lost in some frowsy old book somewhere, but some etymologists have speculated that frowsy (also spelled frowzy) shares a common ancestor with the younger, chiefly British word frowsty, a synonym of frowsy in both its senses. That ancestor could be the Old French word frouste, meaning "ruinous" or "decayed," or the now mostly obsolete English word frough or frow, meaning "brittle" or "fragile." The English dramatist Thomas Otway is the first person (as far as I know) to have used frowsy in print. In his comedy The Souldier's Fortune, published in 1681, the character Beau refers to another character as "a frouzy Fellmonger."
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