Found another country road today

This dog of mine

This dog of mine is a piece of work. He rides up front in the and leans his paw on the arm rest, taking it all in. When I pull into the driveway, he won't get out of the car, he wants to keep driving.

Good words to have

Nugatory 

NOO-guh-tor-ee 

1: Of little or no consequence: trifling, inconsequential

2: Having no force : inoperative

Nugatory comes from the Latin adjective nugatorius and is ultimately a derivative of the noun nugae, meaning "trifles."

Jettison

 (JET-i-suhn, -zuhn) 

To cast off something regarded as unwanted or burdensome. The act of discarding something.

Originally, jettison was the act of throwing goods overboard to lighten a ship in distress. From Latin jactare (to throw), frequentative of jacere (to throw). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ye- (to throw), which also gave us jet, eject, project, reject, object, subject, adjective, joist, jactitation,subjacent, and jaculate.

Good words to have

Laconic 

luh-KAH-nik 

Using or involving the use of a minimum of words: concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious

Laconia was an ancient country in southern Greece, bordering on the Aegean and the Mediterranean seas. Its capital city was Sparta, and the Spartans were famous for their terseness of speech. Laconic comes to us by way of Latin from Greek Lakōnikos, which is derived from Lakōn, meaning "native of Laconia." It has been with us since the 16th century and has sometimes been used with the basic meaning "of or relating to Laconia or its inhabitants" (though we're more apt to use Laconian for this meaning today). In current use, laconic means "terse" or "concise," and thus recalls the Spartan tendency to use the fewest words possible.

Pinchgut

PINCH-guht 

A miserly person.

Originally, a pinchgut was someone who didn’t give enough food to a ship’s crew.

Exponent 

 ik-SPOH-nunt 

1: a symbol written above and to the right of a mathematical expression to indicate the operation of raising to a power

 2 a: one that expounds or interprets

 b: one that champions, practices, or exemplifies

 You probably won't be surprised to learn that exponent shares an ancestor with proponent—and indeed, the Latin ponere ("to put") is at the root of both terms. Exponent descends from exponere, which joins ponere with ex- ("out") and means "to put forth" or "to explain." Proponent traces to proponere, a word created from the affix pro- ("before") that can mean "to put before," or "to display" or "to declare." Proponent is related to propose and can describe someone who offers a proposal, but today it usually means "one who argues in favor of something." Exponent can also refer to someone who is an advocate, but it tends to refer especially to someone who stands out as a shining representative of something. In addition, it has retained its earlier meaning of "one who expounds."

Antietam cemetery, a fraction of 23,000 killed, wounded or missing during a battle that last 7 hours

Got our green up

There's a dirt and gravel road in back of my house

There's a dirt and gravel road in back of my house we like to take walks on, its surrounded by fields and wood and filled with deer and wild turkey. That young deer (Doe?) towards the bottom was alone and limping pretty badly, I don't know why.