Jumble-nyms?
Wednesday September 23, 2020
I have some weird ideas in the middle of the night. Last night, I woke up with a headache. While waiting for the i-buprofen to start helping, I was thinking about pairs of words that are made from the same letters. We all know synonyms, homonyms etc. I thought the pairs with the same letters but in different orders could be called jumble-nyms. A couple of examples might be: grab and garb; drab and brad, dog and god. It seemed perfectly reasonable in the middle of the night. This morning, I wondered if it was just the headache that caused these troubling thoughts. I’m hoping for a more restful night.
Today, Mike worked on cleaning the lazarette (the very large locker off the cockpit). First he took everything out. What a shocker that was. It was impossible to move around the cockpit. I knew it was a big deep locker but I totally underestimated its holding capacity. It’s somewhat sobering to think about having “all that stuff” on the boat. After Mike washed out the lazarette, he put everything back. He is a hard worker...
In the afternoon, we went to the dock at Goddard Memorial State Park (some 490 acres!). We had a nice walk through the woods along some bridle paths. Mike speculated that we were probably walking the route of the cross-country race that Tasha participated in several times during high school. The route was certainly a lot quieter today than it would have been on those other occasions, when it seemed there were thousands of students running. In fact we actually saw a large deer on the path.
The thing that struck me about the park was how dry all the vegetation looks. Admittedly it’s no longer the height of summer but the plants (weeds?) were all drooping and looked half dead. The risk of fire must be quite high.
Gloria
East Greenwich
East Greenwich, RI at night - La Masseria
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