If it is today, this must be Sunday. I am really having a difficult time keeping up with the days. They are all running together, and it is not just because of the Holiday weekend. Yep, it is Sunday, the day before another abbreviated week. I am hoping for the best. I was able to get some chores done today; I made a couple stops here and there for dog stuff and chicken stuff. I got the chicken coop cleaned, rounded up the trash (I will take the can out to the road tomorrow), fed the birds, fed the cat, cleaned the pool skimmer, stuff like that. A chilly front is supposed to be working its way in to central Texas, and we might get to freezing or just below on Tuesday morning. A fifty percent chance of rain on New Years Day. Perfect. Same room, worst view yet!Restive -- Adjective. 1. stubbornly resisting control. 2. market by impatience or uneasiness. fidgety. "Colin was beginning to feel restive, as he was obliged to remain on his sofa because it was not safe to get up and walk about." Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Gardens, 1911
Did You Know? Restive ultimately comes from the Anglo-French word rester, meaning "to stop, resist, or remain." In its earliest use, restive meant "sluggish" or "inactive," though this sense is no longer in use. Another early sense was "stubborn, obstinate." Specifically, restive often referred to horses that refused to do as commanded. This general application to unruly horses may have influenced the development of the "fidgety, impatient" sense of restive. Some usage commentators have objected to this newer sense, but it has been in use for well over a century and is now the more common of the uses.
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