Posted on 05/28/2015 4:46:03 AM PDT by tioga
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “Word for the Day”.
Pettish
Adjective
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
That hat is ridic. A+++
LOL A++++
True.
Hillary is ancient now, she was always pettish, though. A++++
Ooops. A++++
Ok, then. A++
Yes. A++
Ha, ha. A++++
I am back from my test, still have no answers as yet.
Thank you!
I hope you have answers and solutions soon-you have got to be just about out of patience...
Been wondering if the roads were OK - No washouts or low-water crossing problems on the way back and forth?
I know your house is high up above normal water levels.
No wash outs, but most of the low water crossings were impassable for several hours. The counties to the east toward Austin were hardest hit-for the most part, they have no restrictions on development in their rural areas and so are heavily populated, especially the waterfronts of rivers.
That is a lot of people and buildings in an area that will predictably flood big-time every 15-20 years-not a smart place to build a neighborhood, no matter how scenic it may be.
This county is pretty much all rural, has a population of only around 19k, and has a moratorium on commercial development and a 5 acre minimum for a single residence well and septic-two of the counties next to it have similar restrictions, and they didn’t have heavy property losses, either.
As a very young boy, we got caught in one of those many low-water crossings in the Hill Country west of Austin. Got through 3 of the four crossings after a thunderstorm further west started the waters rising, but the water in each crossing was higher and higher every time. Dad tried to make it through the fourth - but got stuck halfway across.
To him, it was probably- had to have been! - frightening and scary. To us, as kids? A fun day getting pulled out of the car, carried through the flood waters on his back to shelter, and watching the wrecker pull the car out.
When I was 4, the river the family ranch is on flooded in June when we were all at my grandparents’ house for a birthday party-it was/is the nearest house to the river of the three on the property.
We had been chased inside by the rain early in the afternoon, had lost power just before dark, and lighted candles and lamps. No one wanted to go out in what was by then a supercell, but when water came in under the door, we were all gathered up holding each other’s wrists, told to hold onto the two cats and dog, and made our way to car and truck to go to my uncle’s house at the highest point on the property, but the creek crossing at the bottom of the first hill was full-we stayed up there all night in our cars and trucks while the storm went crazy, getting out as soon as the rain quit, light came and the water was low enough to cross-that was the scariest night I’ve ever spent, and I’m terrified of floods.
Ludwing Von Mises...
‘“The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern industrialism and all the moral, intellectual, technological, and therapeutical achievements of the last centuries have been built. It rests with men whether they will make the proper use of the rich treasure with which this knowledge provides them or whether they will leave it unused. But if they fail to take the best advantage of it and disregard its teachings and warnings, they will not annul economics; they will stamp out society and the human race.””
Who is going to run the Congress....?
They’re looking for a pay day too...
Wow Robert - that does sound very frightening! And you are probably correct - your Dad was probably so scared while you all thought it was fun.
Scary for you all!
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