Wednesday

The pictures are of my middle daughter, Lindsey with my grandson, Rocky ( I like to call him lil' Jimmy), Kaileigh, my granddaughter, and my hot tub - for no good reason...

Wednesday - Word History:

Days and years are natural divisions of time based on the astronomical relation of the earth and the sun, but weeks and the names for the days of the week have their source in astrology. The practice of dividing the year into seven-day units is based on the ancient astrological notion that the seven celestial bodies (the sun, the moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn) influence what happens on earth and that each controls the first hour of the day named for it. This system was brought into Hellenistic Egypt from Mesopotamia, where astrology had been practiced for millennia and where seven had always been a propitious number. The ancient Romans did not divide their calendar into weeks; they named all the days of the month in relation to the ides, calends, and nones. In A.D. 321 Constantine the Great grafted the Hellenistic astrological system onto the Roman calendar, making the first day of the week a day of rest and worship and imposing the following sequence of names on the days: Dis Slis, “Sun's Day” Dis Lnae, “Moon's Day” Dis Martis, “Mars's Day” Dis Mercuri, “Mercury's Day” Dis Jovis, “Jove's Day” or “Jupiter's Day” Dis Veneris, “Venus's Day” and Dis Saturn, “Saturn's Day.” This new Roman system was adopted with modifications throughout most of western Europe. In the Germanic languages, such as Old English, the names of four of the Roman gods were converted into those of the corresponding Germanic Gods. Therefore in Old English we have the following names (with their Modern English developments): Sunnandaeg, Sunday; Mnandaeg, Monday; wesdaeg, Tuesday (Tiu, like Mars, was a god of war); Wdnesdaeg, Wednesday (Woden, like Mercury, was quick and eloquent); Thunresdaeg, Thursday (Thunor in Old English or Thor in Old Norse, like Jupiter, was lord of the sky; Old Norse Thrsdagr influenced the English form); Frgedaeg, Friday (Frigg, like Venus, was the goddess of love); and Saeternesdaeg, Saturday.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth EditionCopyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

Hello and congratulations!Together we've made it to "hump" day. I know that I went into rather great detail yesterday describing the weather, so I'll spare you that same agony today. But I will tell you this: It was really chilly this morning! Very nipply! Sparky asked for his dog sweater, but I didn't oblige - nope not today. After all, he looks ridiculous in it. Work - OK Run - very good Read about 20 or so more pages of The Power of Now. Getting to the meat and it's getting good. Pulled about five more tomatoes off my vines. I think that I'll make some salsa soon! Yummy! Dinner consisted of nuts, cheese, and some summer sausage. After a few weeks of carb slippage, I've been doing pretty good getting back to a more normal "Jim" diet. No worries!!!!! Called All Seasons Hot Tubs this evening and asked for a service call to take one more look at my leaky light. After having it repaired earlier this summer, it continues to leak from what appears to be around the light, despite a number of attempts made to fix it by another repair dude. He didn't charge me for his many attempts to fix it because he felt bad that he couldn't seem to resolve the trouble. It only loses about 1 inch per week, but because my hot tub is typically sunk into my deck ( i have it raised now for the repairs) I hate to re-sink it knowing that I still have a seemingly fixable leak. One more try before accepting it as it is. Nonetheless, I can still use it and have been most of the summer. Just kinda drives me crazy knowing that this leak is still there. We'll see what comes of it. Evening meditation - this one I needed Did some hot tubbing after Blogging. Off to bed - great sleeping weather!!