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Word-Wednesday May 30, 2018

And here is the Wannaskan Almanac for Word-Wednesday, May 30, 2018, brought to you by Billy Bob's Business Bucket, outdoor and indoor models with a variety of themes and color schemes. "It's tuff to poop without a decent stoop."


May 30 is the 150th day of the year, with 215 days remaining until the end of the year, and 306 days remaining until April Fools Day.

Earth/Moon Almanac for May 30, 2018
Sunrise: 5:26am; Sunset: 9:17pm
Moonrise: 10:15pm Moonset: 6:30am, waning gibbous, 99% illuminated

Temperature Almanac for May 30, 2018
            Average    Record Today
High        70            91        75
Low         43            24        60

May 30 Celebrations
National Creativity Day
Loomis Day
National Hole In My Bucket Day
National Mint Julep Day
National Water a Flower Day
My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It Day

May 30 Riddle
Rosta is making a batch of beer, but each of his beer-making buckets have one too many holes due to Kid 3's science experiment. Chairman Joe and Thor each have one bucket. CJ's bucket holds exactly five gallons and Thor's three gallons. How can Rosta measure exactly four gallons of water into the five gallon bucket?*

Words I looked up this week: asymptote, delusion, himpathy, purport

I'm still spending time with Molly and Franzi, on this last day of their time in Minnesota before heading to the Grand Canyon tomorrow. Today's edition of Wannaskan Almanac Word-Wednesday gives you an interesting word challenge to hold you over until next week so that I can be with them: Come up with at least two words containing double letters for the following letters:
A [e.g., aarde]
H
I
K
U
V
W

From A Year with Rilke, May 30 entry:
Letters to a Young Poet, Rome 1904
No area of human existence is so burdened with conventions as love between two people. There are life-preservers of the most varied invention, life-boats and safety vests; society has fashioned rescue strategies of every description. Since it has chose to make love as an easy pleasure, it must make it as cheap and safe as all public amusements should be.

Be better than yesterday, learn a new word today, and to stay out of trouble - at least until tomorrow.

*
1. Fill the 3-gallon bucket.
2. Pour the 3 gallons of water into the 5-gallon bucket
3. Fill the 3-gallon bucket again.
4. Fill up the 5-gallon bucket with the 3-gallon bucket, leaving you with 1 gallon left in the 3-gallon bucket.
5. Empty out the 5-gallon bucket.
6. Pour the remaining 1 gallon of water from the 3-gallon bucket into the 5-gallon bucket.
7. Fill the 3-gallon bucket.
8. Pour the 3 gallons of water from the 3-gallon bucket into the 5-gallon bucket leaving you with 4 gallons of water in the 5-gallon bucket.

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