This is a picture of the wasp nest that was overlooked by Joe Mac last week when he and Carolyn were visiting. I found it this afternoon when I was cutting the grass in the dogs yard. They are all peaceful out there right now, but the end is near for them. Between now and the next time I cut the grass, this particular nest will be history. These stings are crazy, too...it is like the go right in to the muscle, and they make my whole arm ache. Carolyn suggested that ammonia would help relieve that, so I just put some ammonia on it, maybe it is all psychological, but it really feels like there is already some relief. I got everything done today, everything on the list has been checked off, and I even got a few other things taken care of. Yesterday got off to a slow start, but today finished with quite a bang!Occiput -- Noun. the back part of the hear or skull. "As he headed for the front door each morning, he'd hook the cap over his occiput and pull the bill low over his forehead." Ed Cullen, The Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), March 4, 2012
Did You Know? Occiput came to English from Latin, where it was created from ob-, meaning "against," and caput, meaning "head." its adjectival form, occipital, meaning "of, relating to, or located within or near the occiput," abounds in medical texts but is found in literary ones too, as in George Eliot's description of the coiffure of the "young ladies who frizzled their hair, and gathered it all into large barricades in front of their heads, leaving their occipital region exposed without ornament," in Scenes of Clerical Life. Another caput derivation is sinciput, a word used to refer to either the forehead or the upper half of the skull.
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