And here is the Wannaskan Almanac for Word-Wednesday, January 9, 2019, brought to you by History & Hotdish at Bonanza Farms 6:00pm Thursday, January 27 at the Spruce Valley Community Center, Middle River.
January 9 is the 9th day of the year, with 356 days remaining until the end of the year, 82 days remaining until April Fools Day, and 1,140 days until Twosday, February 22, 2022.
January 9 is the 9th day of the year, with 356 days remaining until the end of the year, 82 days remaining until April Fools Day, and 1,140 days until Twosday, February 22, 2022.
Nordhem Lunch: Lasagna
Earth/Moon Almanac for January 9, 2019
Sunrise: 8:14am; Sunset: 4:45pm
Moonrise: 10:23am; Moonset: 8:27pm, waxing crescent
Temperature Almanac for January 9, 2019
Average Record Today
High 12 43 10
Low -6 -40 0
January 9 Celebrations from National Day Calendar
- National Apricot Day
- National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day
- National Static Electricity Day
January 9 Riddle
Making apricot jam, Scott Helfgott put all the apricots in the pot and stirred them up hot. Then he remembered he had to add a 1 ounce shot of lemon juice for every two apricots! How did Scott figure out how much lemon juice he ought to add to the pot?*
Making apricot jam, Scott Helfgott put all the apricots in the pot and stirred them up hot. Then he remembered he had to add a 1 ounce shot of lemon juice for every two apricots! How did Scott figure out how much lemon juice he ought to add to the pot?*
- 1962 Mister M (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne in Minnesota, to become NWA champ
- 1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin
January 9 Author/Artist Birthdays, from On This Day
1881 Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter
1890 Karel Capek, Czech writer, playwright and critic
1908 Simone de Beauvoir
1934 Mary Ann Stenzel, Woe's mom
1941 Joan Baez, "Action is the antidote to despair."
1881 Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter
1890 Karel Capek, Czech writer, playwright and critic
1908 Simone de Beauvoir
1934 Mary Ann Stenzel, Woe's mom
1941 Joan Baez, "Action is the antidote to despair."
Words-I-Looked-Up-This-Week Writer's Challenge
Make a single sentence (or poem) from the following words:
Make a single sentence (or poem) from the following words:
- aglopened: frightened, startled.
- anatine: of or relating to the family Anatidae, comprising the swans, geese, and ducks.
- brumal: of, belonging to, or characteristic of winter; wintry.
- calcareous: containing calcium carbonate; chalky.
- donnybrook: a scene of uproar and disorder; a heated argument.
- hamadryad: a nymph who lives in a tree and dies when the tree dies.
- lustral: relating to or used in ceremonial purification.
- metazoan: any of a group (Metazoa) that comprises all animals having the body composed of cells differentiated into tissues and organs and usually a digestive cavity lined with specialized cells
- petrichor: a pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather.
- siderosous: star-struck
January 9 Word-Wednesday Feature
As a time management aid in what is surely the longest month of the Palmville Township year - a month when some contributors take any excuse to head south - today's Word-Wednesday focuses on the classic of all word games: Scrabble™. This post is dedicated to one of Palmville Township's most avid and expert Scrabble™ players, Jackie Helms Reynolds, who must sadly play herself on a rotating Scrabble™ board while WannaskaWriter goofs around in Florida.
Jack Pine Savage plays Scrabble™ only reluctantly, where she eschews the Scrabble™ dictionary's expanded list of acceptable plays, particularly when it comes to the very short words. It's important to clear your rack of letters before the game closes, so here are a few shorties included in the official Scrabble™ for you to memorize:
As a time management aid in what is surely the longest month of the Palmville Township year - a month when some contributors take any excuse to head south - today's Word-Wednesday focuses on the classic of all word games: Scrabble™. This post is dedicated to one of Palmville Township's most avid and expert Scrabble™ players, Jackie Helms Reynolds, who must sadly play herself on a rotating Scrabble™ board while WannaskaWriter goofs around in Florida.
Jack Pine Savage plays Scrabble™ only reluctantly, where she eschews the Scrabble™ dictionary's expanded list of acceptable plays, particularly when it comes to the very short words. It's important to clear your rack of letters before the game closes, so here are a few shorties included in the official Scrabble™ for you to memorize:
- CWM: cirque, a half-open hollow on a mountainside.
- JA: yes; interjection.
- KY: Scots word for cows.
- PHPHT: informal an expression of mild irritation or reluctance; interjection.
- PO: a chamber pot, plural: POS.
- QAT: a shrub that grows in the Middle East and Africa.
- QI: the energy of life flowing through the body.
- UG, UGGED, UGGING, UGS: to inspire fear or loathing.
- XI: letter in the Greek alphabet.
- XU: coin that used to be minted in South Vietnam.
- ZA: Slang term for pizza.
- ZUZ: ancient Hebrew coin.
But don't wait until the end of the game to exercise your memory and score the big points, leaving your unschooled, unseasonably tanned, peripatetic opponent in your proverbial high-score dust, holding nothing but his empty bottle of Modelo Negra. Here's a list of classic big-score words to strategically deploy on the Scrabble™ board's double- and triple- letter and word squares.
- BEZIQUES: a card game played with a pack of 48 cards.
- CAZIQUES: black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics.
- CHUTZPAH: unbelievable gall; supreme self-confidence.
- EQUALIZE
- EXORCIZE
- GHERKINS: A small pickle, made from an immature cucumber.
- JEZEBEL
- JUKEBOX
- MAXIMIZE
- MEZQUITE: alternate spelling of mesquite.
- MUZJIKS: A Russian peasant.
- OXAZEPAM: An anti-anxiety drug.
- OXYPHENBUTAZONE: An anti-inflammatory medication used to treat arthritis and bursitis.
- QUARTZY: Resembling quartz.
- QUETZALS: The national bird of Guatemala as well as one of its monetary units.
- QUICKLY
- QUIXOTRY: A romantic or quixotic idea or action.
- QUIZZIFY: To quiz or question.
- SQUEEZE
- SYZYGY: An alignment of three celestial bodies.
- WHEEZILY
- WHIZBANG
- ZOMBIFY
- ZYMURGY: the branch of chemistry concerned with fermentation.
Be better than yesterday, learn a new word today, try to stay out of trouble - at least until tomorrow, and write when you have the time.
*count the apricot pits.
*count the apricot pits.
Yes, after me they coined the term "donnybrook."
ReplyDeleteBut that does not make me a dirty crook.
In a sidersous state I must keep my base,
So they'll stand by my side In the upcoming race.
I'll algopen them all with Hamadryadic fears,
Cut down all the trees, Round up all the queers.
"We're all metazon," say my foes, anatine.
Let 'em jump in the Rio! If they wash away, fine!
With the petrichor whiffs in the next brumal season,
My wall will be up, or I'll know the reason.
Be it ferrous, calcareous, or over so slatty,
Only my base will say I'm not batty.
My next swearing-in will be most celestial.
Stormy and me will make sure that it's lustral.