Tuesday Varia

Sunday was one of my favorite days of the year. Not only was it Mother’s Day (and happy happy to my amazing mother – every time I’ve gone through the window, it was the best choice, mwah!), and I got a lovely rose at church (the X man wondered if men got blue bow ties on Father’s Day), but it is also the day that Major League Baseball players use pink bats. (photo credit from article)


And, the day after Mother’s Day is a lovely day as well, the second annual National Apron Day, did you participate? I wore mine proudly, but look just the same as last year and since I didn’t have any photographers with me in the morning, you’ll have to trust me.

Speaking of Baseball – did you see the unassisted triple play yesterday?

An interesting article from the archaeology world – researches say they have found the palace of the Queen of Sheba

And, lastly, two items in the interesting word origin department. First – it occurred to me during Lent that the root of companion
was someone who you had bread with. And, dictionary.com’s word of the day taught me that the origin of contrite is from Latin conterere, "to rub away, to grind," hence "to obliterate, to abase," from con- + terere, "to rub, to rub away." How true that is!