Yesterday it was meal worms, today it was whatever in the hell these things are. Whatever they are, the chickens enjoyed them, and they all survived, so that means everybody was happy. These things were pretty well contained in a big green tool box out by the front barn that I keep a variety of things in, including a flock block that has been in there since the old chickens were still free ranging. These grubs (maybe?) got inside the toolbox somehow and were slowly devouring the block, but I cleaned out the box today, and all the volunteer block eradicators have gone on to that big flock block in the sky. I did a few other things today, but nothing of real note, so I will leave you with, just this.Arbiter -- Noun. 1. a person with power to decide a dispute. judge. 2. a person or agency whose judgment or opinion is considered authoritative. Over her long career, she wrote columns on fashion, film, language, and etiquette and was generally acknowledged as an arbiter of taste.
Did You Know? There is no disputing it - arbiter and arbitrator are synonyms. But judging by usage, arbitrator has been appointed the preferred term for legal situations and is the one more likely to be used in the sense "a person chosen by two parties to decide their differences." Arbiter is the more literary of the two and is identical to the Latin arbiter (meaning "judge"), the grandparent of both terms. Arbitrator and arbiter each came to us via Anglo-French, and in case you were wondering--yes, the Latin arbiter is also an ancestor of arbitrary and arbitrate.
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