What are you doing today?

[anewbie]

You can fry fries, but you can't fry "frys" since there's no such word in the English language!

Ahem. Too much time as an aquarium book and article editor. It makes a person develop pet peeves. I'm going to go look at a tank full of fry now.

Will you fry your fry ?

 

[Oldspartan]

I am cooking again today and fries are on the menu -- Steak fries and steak, Fries in the deep fryer and steak on the grill.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Will you fry your fry ?

I recommend using a small friar.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

I hear an air friar can work pretty well too.

 

[anewbie]

I'd rather fry the friar; heck these days i think a lot of frying might make things better. Hey there is something i want to say but i don' tthink the rules allow me to say it so lets just say that i havent' had fried food in 40 years but I'm thinking of making an exception soon.

 

[Oldspartan]

As I sit here contemplating a Saturday the rain is pounding the roof over my office with a steady drum. This will help me decide on what I will do today.

There is a farm auction we wanted to attend, another local dairy biting the dust. It is mostly outside though and unlike the fella I was a few years ago, I no longer like being wet.

If the rain does not let up, we will not be going. Instead, I will head to the shop and begin planing some lumber for the summer kitchen. I wanted to go to the auction because they have a couple of large slate slabs that would be ideal as counter tops for the summer kitchen. Probably will go for more than I am willing to pay anyway.

 

[lottabubbles]

There is a farm auction we wanted to attend, another local dairy biting the dust. It is mostly outside though and unlike the fella I was a few years ago, I no longer like being wet.

funny how age resets your priorities. on top of that your clock runs 5 times faster than when you were waiting to be old enough for a drivers license.
when I go to bed at night I sing Another One Bites the Dust!

 

[anewbie]

funny how age resets your priorities. on top of that your clock runs 5 times faster than when you were waiting to be old enough for a drivers license.
when I go to bed at night I sing Another One Bites the Dust!

Thank god i don't know how to sing. I got up this morning so i think that means i'll have to go to sleep tonight.

 

[GaryE]

Thank god i don't know how to sing. I got up this morning so i think that means i'll have to go to sleep tonight.

It sounds like you're having a rough stretch. Hang in there - it gets better. Just don't sing Queen songs - Bohemian Rhapsody was clever, but they were an awful band.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

It sounds like you're having a rough stretch. Hang in there - it gets better. Just don't sing Queen songs - Bohemian Rhapsody was clever, but they were an awful band.

They had three good songs. They should have stopped after that.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

I'm still feeling a little sickly and not moving fast today. Got the new pump installed in the 55, and it's disappointing. Too big to really fit the space (every time I work on this tank I kick myself for not making the "behind the waterfall" area big enough so I can actually get in there and work), and actually makes very little current. My river has become a pond. Not sure what to do about that, so I'll leave it be for now.

Finishing up a maple/rawhide bow; going to try and get it to full draw today. Hopefully this one won't explode. Also have my juniper/sinew/snakeskin bow dried out and ready to start bending. But to be honest, I'm procrastinating on that because I have so much work into it, I'm going to be really sad if it explodes.

The Badgerling has her final performance of "Alice in Wonderland" tonight. Wow, having a kid in these plays is grueling. It is for the kids too of course, but they're young. It's a lot of fun, a rather dark, steampunkish take on the story, and the last three minutes turn into a horror movie. Really weird. And fun. And extremely well done.

Maybe I'll go take a nap instead.

 

[Oldspartan]

Well, we went to the farm auction. Miserable weather. It was raining hard when we left and snowing when we arrived. It did stop eventually but the day was damp and cold.

Was out bid on the slate slabs. They went for half again what I wanted to pay.

The auction was a success though. I purchased a portable sawmill. I had no intention of buying a sawmill and did not even know it was there. It is on a trailer that is not roadworthy, but everything turned as it should. Runs on a gas engine that started with some effort when the auctioneer asked it to prior to opening bid. Started with who wants to pay a thousand. Not a paddle was raised. Finally, after several asks were dropped to a hundred the auctioneer asked any bids. Twenty-Five bucks says I am getting a hard slap on the arm from Linda and a shake of her head with a whispered no. Too late, no other bids and the gavel fell.

I will need to arrange transport, maybe 20 bucks for gas and a spaghetti dinner from a farm neighbor. I willl also need to get a fella from the local sawmill to adjust the beast. I am super happy, and Linda is super upset. I got the silent treatment at first on the way home, then came the pointed quistions and comments. How will you get it home? Where in the blazes, (not a precise translation), will we put it? You are too old to be playing with that thing! There was more.

My only reply was I did not object when she paid three times that much for her painting and an equal amount for some garden stuff that duplicates what we have. By the time we got to her favorite hot dog place for a quick shot of unhealthy food she had adjusted and has come to grips with the mill. I promised it would be in the "way back" out of site. She is now good with the mill or at least accepting.

Yah never knows what you will buy at an auction.

 

[MaloK]

I'f you'd brought me with ya !!!

You'd 've got the trailer for free...

 

[Lanpenn]

You can fry fries, but you can't fry "frys" since there's no such word in the English language!

Ahem. Too much time as an aquarium book and article editor. It makes a person develop pet peeves. I'm going to go look at a tank full of fry now.

I just checked the word definition and plural. Now I am confused.

In Brazilian Portuguese, the fry is just for food, indeed (I think about tasty foods such as pastel). Fish fry is called "alevino", from the French "alevin".

 

[GaryE]

We have a number of irregular plurals in English. 1 moose, 2 moose, 1 mouse 2 mice, 1 fry, 2 fry, 1 child, 2 children, 1 sheep, 2 sheep. .