The chick survived its trauma, and all is well in chick-world. They are really pretty resilient, and it really takes some doing for them to get hurt. That said, I have also seen chickens just fall over dead for no good reason. You just can't tell about chickens these days. Today was another beautiful day, almost two whole days with no rain, but it is supposed to start up again tomorrow, and the forecast is for seven days of rain, another three to five inches all together during the next week. I managed to get some stuff done around the house; i got the shelves in the garage straightened out a little bit and got the garage swept. I swept the patio and the pool deck, cleaned the chicken coop and re-set the mouse traps out in the front barn. I am not a raving success story in the mouse killing department, but I think they are becoming less and less, maybe Barney has something to do with that, I'm not sure. Oh, and I went in the pool for the first time this year. And, like the captain of the Titanic replied when asked if the water was going to be cold, it was "definitely not hot!"Palindrome -- Noun. a word, verse, or sentence (as "Able was I ere I saw Elba") or a number (as 1881) that reads the same backward and forward. Hannah was amused when Otto pointed out that their first names were both palindromes.
Did You Know? Palindromic wordplay is nothing new. Palindromes have been around since at least the days of ancient Greece, and our name for them comes from two Greek words: palin, meaning "back" or "again," and dramein, meaning "to run." Nowadays, we can all appreciate a clever palindrome (such as "Drab as a fool, aloof as a bard" or "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama"), or even a simple one like "race car," but in the past palindromes were more than just smart wordplay. Until well into the 19th century some folks thought palindromes were actually magical, and they carved them on walls or amulets to protect people or property from harm.
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