Today was a really great day. No tragedies, no disasters, but I did get a basket full of chores done, too many to bore you with here in this journal. One of the more interesting things Iwe have done in a good while, was to go and look for churches that are for sale in Bartlett. Anybody want to buy a church? I can help you with that. the first one we looked at has been (almost) redone, and it was really disappointing. The bones are good, but the renovations are really bland, bland, bland! Not good. The other one (pictured) has NOT even been started, although the listing says the foundation has been worked on and the roof has been repaired. It is totally cool, BUT, it is small, just about 1,400 square feet, but did I mention that it is really COOL? It is. It needs about $100K of work, but I think you would have something even cooler when you finished. Somebody will do something with is, I just hope it does not succumb to the wrecking ball.Saltation -- Noun. 1a. the action or process of leaping or jumping. b. dance. 2. the origin of a new species or a higher taxon in essentially a single evolutionary step. "Jerboas are specialised for saltation, or leaping...[and] can cover about 3 m[eters] in a single leap. Darren Naish, Scientific American, October 3, 2017
Did You Know? Saltation comes from Latin, deriving ultimately from the verb salire, meaning "to leap." Etymologists think it meant "leap" or "jump" when it was first used in English, too, but documented evidence of early use in that sense is scarce. Instead, the oldest manuscripts containing the word show it used as a synonym of dancing. One of the first recorded incidences of the "leaping" sense occurred when British physician and author Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) used it in an entomological context: "Locusts...being ordained for saltation, their hinder legs doe (not a spelling error) far exceed the other." The word made the leap to evolutionary theory in the late 19th century.
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