Try as we might, we were not able to get any extra sleep today. I dreamed that a plane crashed into the (good) neighbors field next door. Not really a crash, in my dream there was a pop (or a snap) and the plane turned into just a flat disc. Think frisbee, only really flat, imagine those giant car crushers in the junk yard. Kind of like that. There was a lot of activity after the plane crash, and Joel was in charge of calling the (good) neighbor. I woke up and realized it was just a dream, and decided thought, okay, I will just go back to sleep. That is when it started; either a smoke alarm or a carbon monoxide detector, somewhere in the house, was beeping. You know the beep, the 'I need a new battery!' beep. The beeps that only happen in the middle of the night. In this case, it was 5:48 a.m., kind of a regular time for rising, except this was a Sunday morning, and I really did not need to get up. And the rest is history. SO, after reading a little bit of the paper, I started watering, and doing some finesse to both the HVAC units. A little of this and a little of that, and just about the time I finished watering, it started raining. But I kept watering, not trusting that we would get anything significant, and I was right. 0.04" of an inch of rain, just enough to make everything really humid when the sun finally came out about 2 o'clock this afternoon. I did get an interesting picture (I think) of one of the blooms on the sweet potato vine. And the chicken coop got cleaned out, and, well, never mind.
Arduous -- Adjective. 1a. hard to accomplish or achieve. b. marked by great labor or effort. 2. steep. The rescue crew embarked on what would be a long and arduous trek up the mountain in search of the missing hikers.
Did You Know? "To forgive is the most arduous pitch human nature can arrive at." When Richard Steele published that line in The Guardian in 1713, he was using arduous in what was apparently a fairly new way for writers in his day: to imply that something was steep or lofty as well as difficult. Steele's use is one of the earliest documented in English for that meaning, but he didn't commit it to paper until almost 200 years after the first uses of the word in its "hard to accomplish" sense. Although the sense is very true to the word's origins; arduous derives from the Latin arduus, which means "high" or "steep."
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