2019 - Day 362/3 - Saturday...Expunge...

Same window, different day, different sunset. Another busy day, more back-and-forthing. Jim and Bonnie took a detour while driving to Houston from Dallas, and that was a nice visit. I got several chores done around the house, and there will be a few more things to do tomorrow. I need to clean the chicken coop for one thing. Our neighbor Jim put hay out for the cattle on Friday, so I don't need to do that. The cattle appreciate it, and I appreciate it. We got a little bit of rain today, about 0.17", so we will not frown about this. It was not nearly as exciting as the prognosticators had predicted, but in reality, I don't think it ever is. I dined on Jetta's lamb and dressing and cranberry relish. Not sure if relish is the right word. Jody had a veggie burger and chocolate pudding. Tomorrow is another day.

Expunge -- Verb. 1. to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion. 2. to efface completely, destroy. 3. to eliminate (something, such as a memory) from one's consciousness. Before we release the documents to the media, any confidential information in them should be expunged.

Did You Know? In medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, a series of dots was used to mark mistakes or to label material that should be deleted from a text, and those deletions dots can help you remember the history of expunge. They were known as puncta delentia. the puncta part of the name derives from the Latin verb pungere, which can be translated as "to prick or sting" (and you can imagine that a scribe may have felt stung when his mistakes were so punctuated in a manuscript). Pungere is also an ancestor of expunge, as well as a parent of other dotted, pointed, or stinging terms such as punctuate, compunction, poignant, puncture, and pungent.