I bought a couple tomato plants yesterday, and stuck them in the dirt where the other tomato plants had been. This is the first year that we have EVER actually had home-grown tomatoes from our own plants. I assume these tomatoes are for fall/early winter (haha) planting in central Texas, or why would they be selling them? I have a new strategy for planting tomatoes next year...each plant is going to get its very own, personal big black bucket. Maybe that will work better, we will just have to wait and see. Today is the first day of fall, as I am sure you all know. It was 100 degrees in central Texas today, so I am not sure what all the Fall hoopla is about. Nothing has changed here...Peregrinate -- Verb. 1. to travel especially on foot. walk. 2. to walk or travel over. traverse. "All my traveling life, 40 years of peregrinating Africa, Asia, South America and Oceana, I have thought constantly of home." Paul Theroux, Smithsonian, September, 2009
Did You Know? The narrative of the linguistic travels of peregrinate begins with the Latin word peregrinatus, the past participle of peregrinari, which means "to travel in foreign lands." The verb is derived from the Latin word for "foreigner," peregrinus, which was earlier used as an adjective meaning "foreign." That term also gave us the words pilgrim and peregrine, the latter of which once meant "alien" but is now used as an adjective meaning "tending to wander" and as a noun naming a kind of falcon-the peregrine falcon, so named because it was traditionally captured during its first flight, or pilgrimage, from the nest.
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