2019 - Day 223/142 - Sunday...Rantipole...

Before I end this day, I will have completed everything that was on my list. There was not that much on my list, but when you are moving sprinklers around every twenty minutes, it kind of gets in the way of other things. Yesterday, the grass between the house in back just past the fruit trees got cut, and the grass in the front of the house up to the bamboo break got cut. I might have had a thought of cutting more grass today, but that did not happen. I got the chicken coop cleaned out (one more egg in a different nest, but I still think there is just one girl laying right now). Did a lot of this and thats. Jody and I did take the girls for a ride this morning, but otherwise, we have not moved from the house all day. Early lupper, and I have about another hour or so (maybe an hour and a half) of watering to do, and then it will be tomorrow! They have been harvesting the corn across the road from us, Hubert and Pauline's property. All around they are clearing corn off the fields. The cotton is looking pretty good, blooming and getting ready to make. We had our tenth or twelfth day in a row of 100 plus degree days, that makes about twenty this year, which is not as bad as it could be. We will take it!

Rantipole -- Adjective. characterized by a wild unruly manner or attitude: rakish. Jerome's rantipole cousin was always getting them both into trouble with his itch for causing mischief and mayhem.

Did You Know? "O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to totters, to very rags." Thus, Prince Hamlet let it be known that he didn't like ranting, and he advised the players who were about to present his special drama to the king to "avoid it." Around 1700, someone else who apparently found ranting ridiculous dealt with it in a different way-by combining the word rant (or maybe the British dialect word ranty, which means "excited" or "riotous") with poll, meaning "head." The result was the whimsical rantipole, a term that quickly found use as a noun for a reckless person, and adjective for wild behavior, and a verb for being rude.