Cool 35* here this morning which wouldn't be too bad if it wasn't for the nasty depressing look of cloud covered skies and a stiff wind pushing the cold under you coat, down your collar and slapping your face and hands with it.
If variety is the spice of life, you can certainly get plenty of spice out there this morning. One plus with the wind is it is keeping most of the leaves off our road and decks. One negative is it piles bunches into any little crevice where they become a lot more difficult to move when Glenda deems I should.
A laze around day is in the making with some reading as we crowd in a watching of today's NASCAR race.
It should never be considered disrespectful to type about history or of things that still may be and I surly mean no disrespect by forwarding some of them along nor by adding the thing below! It's just that the current times have inspired me with a want for more knowledge about a few things and the computer allows me to learn.
But....but if my sharing some of my learning's offend you, do right and delete the damn thing! No need to come hollering back at me about it! Quit hiding! Ignoring the world and things that are, or avoiding knowledge of the past can only hinder greatly all of our futures.
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Something you may not have known. I don't know if it still holds but in the past coloureds were ranked, 'according to their ostensible percentage of ‘white blood’. They were classified by degree of mixed parentage. A ‘quarter-white’ was thus a sambo, a mulatto was ‘half white’, a quadroon was ‘three-quarters white’, and a mestizo was ‘seven-eighths white’.'
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