Some carrots broke through the surface yesterday, so now every variety we planted has at least a few seedlings showing.  I took some pictures today. As usual, click on them for a close-up.

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The title means “random stuff.”  I was going to use the Latin word for “miscellaneous,” but it turns out that’s . . . “miscellaneus,” so people would think I just misspelled it.  It also reminded me it’s been a long time since I watched the movie Top Secret.

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Latin Lesson #15 is up, on neuter nouns of the third declension.  It’s a pretty easy one, really; there’s nothing very special about them.  I can’t believe I’m up to 15 of these things already, and actually staying more or less on schedule with them.  Soon it’ll be time to start working on the e-book and podcasts.

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I’ve gotten sort of fascinated by the card game bridge lately.  We learned a lot of card games when I was a kid—euchre, pinochle, rummy, canasta, Crazy Eights—but never bridge.  I’d looked at the rules in Hoyle a few times, but there’s so much more to bridge than the rules that that was a little like trying to learn how a car runs by studying a fender.  At the library sale last spring, I happened to pick up a couple of Charles Goren’s books on bridge from the early 1960s, when he was a champion of the game.  It turns out his methods are somewhat out of date now, but he did a good job of explaining the basics, and I was able to go from there to newer books that cover the more modern methods most partnerships use today.
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