apologies in advance

The Thing, down on the farm: "Now it's clabbering time!"

(I have had a note in my Palm Vx to look this word up for quite a long time, long enough that I've forgotten where I came across it.)

more stuff I told myself to look up

An Ella Wheeler Wilcox poem called "In The Crowd", which I find somewhat banal, despite the interesting idea behind it, and Barbaresco Orientals, which it turns out are a species of lily. I think both of these are from Special Topics In Calamity Physics, a mostly entertaining book which I thought was let down somewhat by the ending.