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whatifoundthere's comment on my last drought post, I re-read the drought restriction notice more carefully. They're not applying drought rate to 90% of what we used, but to 90% of what our allowed baseline usage was. The baseline levels have always been kind of a mystery to me anyway. So it's not so brutal to people who've been careful with their water usage in the past, but Casa Sweetrabbits has some work to do.One thing that may help: Sweety left for work early the other day and realized that the sprinklers were running more often than we thought. When the landscape designer put in the new watering times for our newly landscaped yard, she didn't delete the old watering program. Sweety deleted the old one, so we will be using a little less water than we've used the past few months, at any rate. No wonder our new plantings looked so lush and green, eh?
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You want weird words? We watched the spelling bee last week. Sweety was almost angry at how obscure some of those words were.
Don't apologize. It was good to look up a new word. Now I'll know it.
Clair_de_lalune and I had an interesting word discussion a few days ago. She had said somewhere on one of these blogs something about "religiosity." In discussing religiosity, we realized we were having different understandings of the meaning. She thought it was synonymous with "religious," but I didn't. Looked it up (in my paper dictionary, no less), and discovered that both of us were right. Definition 1 was religious, 2 was excessive piety (my definition). Not often that we can have a disagreement and both be right!
We watched the spelling bee last week. Sweety was almost angry at how obscure some of those words were.
But isn't that kind of the point? I mean, the spelling bee is, I think, the art of taking a word you don't know, and deconstructing it and figuring out how to spell it.
Students need to lighten up. If you don't know the word, ask the prof or look it up. Sheesh.
Isn't that part of the point of college, that your professor teaches you things you don't know?