Morning y'all...
Oh Harriet you had me laughing this morning with your opening. I think you must have been reading my mind. Yesterday I worked outside in my backyard. I had decided to rearrange a landscaped area. It meant a lot of work, but I've learned over time that if I just pace myself I can last the day.
I moved a bunch of pavers, spread out an old sheet to put the dirt and mulch on so I could resue it, and started my new design. I didn't like the way it looked...it wasn't balanced. I needed to find the middle of the area. I knew there was a stump from an old tree the had been planted in the center of the area, so I went digging for it. I thought if it was down deep enough in the ground I could just plant over it. However, once I started to dig, I thought....hummm maybe I can dig the stump out with my shovel.
It took me a long time...and it was very hard work. Sweetie was out in the back working on the lawn. He was in a snippy mood, unsual for him, and we weren't "talking". I could tell he was watching me waiting for me to ask for help. He hadn't tried to dig out the stump last year cause he said it wasn't worth the work. That just fueled me more.
So there I am thinking...i'm almost 63 years old and no one would think I could do this. My body may be that old, but most of the time my mind doesn't feel it. Any several hours later I had shoveled the hole, but the stump was still in it. The hole its self was 4' in diameter and 3' deep. Sweetie came over and said...nice job but just how do you expect to remove the stump?...If you hold your arms away from your body and make a circle with them you'll get an idea how big the stump was.... Sweetie tried to remove it, but couldn't. He said....let me change my shoes, then we'll tie a rope around it and pull it out.
I sat there while he went into the house. And I thought to myself....I didn't put in all this work to have someone else finish it...so I thought about it for a moment, evaluated what I needed to do, and was able to remove the stump. About that time Sweetie came out to help and I looked at him , grinned and said I don't need your help...I removed the stump ALL BY MYSELF
I must have googled "quiddit" incorrectly b/c when I tried a 2nd time, there it was, the exact same definition that you posted!! Now I've learned 2 new words. Maybe I should pass them on as vocab words to dd17 who is supposedly studying for SAT/ACT. If their roots are Latin, which I think at least quiddit's might be, she might be able to figure out the quiddity of the word quiddit on her own. 
