Reading...

I have been reading blog post, after blog post, after blog post on several different "Christan" women's about McCain choice of a VP. Most of you know I don't get into politics. After all I'm not going to push my views on anyone else and nor do I want theirs pushed on me.

But this is how I feel. I'm GLAD he picked Mrs. Palin. I finally feel as though I have someone to vote for now. Since I'm not going to vote for someone who has no chance at winning.

OK back to all the blog posts... what I don't understand is how people can get so wrapped up in their ideas and their knowledge or lack there in. Granted I don't read my bible as much as I should. I'm being honest here... but ya know how much time do people really read the word, study it, study out all the words (to their roots) of the bible. Lets take the word Gossip.

Gossip
"Gossip" is one of the oldest words in our language. It comes from two Old Norse root words: "God" and "Sib" (meaning "next", as in "sibling"), and was originally used to convey what we now call "Godfather" and "Godmother". After the Norman invasion, it retained the meaning as someone who sponsored an infant at a baptism, and was contractually obligated to care for a child if the parents should die.
By Shakespeare's time, it was used exclusively for women who were present at someones birth, "...And sometimes lurk I in a gossip's bowl..."(MSND); and Shakespeare adapted the verb form to mean someone acting with a presumption of familiarity or intimacy, "...with all my heart I'll gossip at this feast..." (CE). From this coining, the word evolved to mean a woman given to idle talk or rumour.
By the 17th century, the noun had become largely obsolete and the verb came into widespread usage meaning to talk loosely about the personal affairs of others (although the noun linked with "Godparent" still retained some usage through the 19th century).
In modern English, the noun is all but obsolete, and the verb "to gossip" is used in a depreciatory sense to mean spreading idle (sometimes unfounded) rumours about the personal affairs of another.

Isn't that amazing? I know I for one was shocked. I only wish I could find the site that I had first went to. I gave more detail. Oh well so it goes...

Now lets try to get this post farm related... I took the milk claws over to Callaways to have the gaskets changed out. I have a horrible time of it and so I thought I would let a MAN do it. I'm sorry... couldn't help that... it's all those post I've been reading. Anyway I'm waiting here for them to call and say they are ready to be picked up. I hope it's soon.

So far so good on the calves, canning tomatoes, didn't get my apples done yesterday... maybe tomorrow, and no rain yet... but the sky looks promising. :)