Sunday, January 5, 2025

Another interesting car

It seems that we often see "interesting" cars when we're out-and-about in Mesa. We have been staying close to home for a couple of weeks as we "gave" each other colds/flu for Christmas, but we did make it out to the grocery store this past week.

We saw this car in the parking lot...

Carl said that this was the type of car that his family had when he was a kid...

... except that theirs was teal (he thinks it was all teal, not two-tone as this one is).

Carl said that his father traded in their Bel Air in 1962 to get a station wagon.

It is fun to observe things as we're out and about.

Thursday, January 2, 2025

Contronyms

Contronyms are words which are their own opposites. I recently saw an article that tells about 25 of these interesting creatures:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/57032/25-words-are-their-own-opposites 

These kind of words must make learning English such a challenge!