I am ready for the weekend. It has been a pretty busy couple of weeks, and maybe I can sleep in until about 6 o'clock in the morning. We have dogs, so maybe not. Today I guided a quick class of newly licensed REALTORS® through the NAR Orientation Code of Ethics. Pretty much a full house, and it was fun. I always like presenting information to our colleagues, and today was no exception. Possibility of another light freeze tonight. I did not go out to the pasture tonight when I got home from work, I will do that in the morning, and leave the water on. No more freezing temperatures in the seven-day forecast. I have a bunch of old paint cans and some household cleaning supplies that I am trying to find a place to dispose of. No luck so far. It is all in the back of the pick-up, and it looks like that will be where it stays for a while.Sward -- Noun. 1. a portion of ground covered with grass. 2. the grassy surface of land. "It was a blind and despairing rush by the collection of men in dusty and tattered blue, over a green sward and under a sapphire sky." Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, 1895
Did You Know? Sward sprouted from the Old English sweard or swearth, meaning "skin" or "rind." It was originally used as a term for the skin of the body before being extended to another surface-that of the earth. The word's specific "grassy" sense dates back more than 500 years, but it rarely crops up in contemporary writing. The term, however, has been planted in a number of old novels, such as in the quote from Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles: "The sun was so near the ground, and the sward so flat, that the shadows of Clare and Tess would stretch a quarter mile ahead of them."
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