baker, I like mostly lager and bock beers/ales. I’m not a fan of anything too hoppy, but almost anything else is game.
Ooo, that looked like fun. 
Actually Jane’s tended to waffle back and forth on its exact classification. OK them ------- I’ll settle for a Churchill. After all I often smoke them so I may as well drive one as well. 
We’re supposed to get a couple inches of snow tonight. Tomorrow will be about mid-40s. I am quickly getting tired of the weather being this interesting.
Good morning, I guess. 
I didn’t want to sleep in - not at all. Dammit.
But the critters have been tended to and I just finished a sammich using the last hard-boiled egg. Guess I should boil some more, as **FCD **likes to grab a couple for quick meals.
Semi-busy day ahead. Apart from the inevitable laundry, we’re going to install the new closet door today. Once **FCD **wakes up, he needs to take down the 2 sliding mirrored doors, and we’ve got to uninstall the tracks. I need to to empty the closet, including the shelf. Then we’re going to install a second shelf because there’s a lot of wasted space up high.
We’ve also got to take down the old door frame/trim so we can put in the new door/trim. Plus we need to find the door handle - we’re reusing the ones from the bedrooms that we replaced because the idiot cat could open them. It won’t be a problem on the closet because it will open out, and Taz hasn’t mastered that yet.
Anyway, once the new door is in place, I’ll sort thru and reorganize the closet contents, and I’m hoping we can get rid of some jackets that someone never wears but refuses to let go.
My other chore is cleaning the critter fountain, which takes all of 15 minutes at most.
We’re promised sun today and temps in the low 50s. I think that’s close to average. I can deal with an average day.
Happy Sunday!!
Happy Sunday!
It’s a cold 28 degrees outside. There’s a few inches of snow on the ground but the road is clear.
There’s a little snow on the sidewalk but it’ll probably be gone in an hour or so. It’s supposed to be in the upper 40s today, and then in the 70s later this week.
I’ve been up since 5, which isn’t so bad since I went to bed around 10.
I got woke up once by the thunder of cat feet, followed by the usual yowls, hissing, and spitting.
I think Carl Sandburg never owned a cat.
I’ve only gotten a little done, the kitchen is clean, the fridge has been cleaned out, and the recycling is ready to go out.
Both critters have settled down and are napping.
I have to call the vet tomorrow about Ripple getting a bordetella and flu shot, or see what the vet says about it.
I think he is getting an ear infection so he needs to go in anyway.
In the insanity moment of the day department
Ripple and I were sharing a bag of popcorn. I used to hand a piece to him but I’ve started tossing them around the room. That keeps him busy as he searches for the pieces.
I thought wow, I am really being rude tossing his treats on the floor,
Then it hits me - Sari! Are you crazy? He sticks his nose up the cat’s butt and tries to munch on kitty litter.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 63 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 75 and mostly N.O.S. this afternoon. We shall see. Today’s plans are to deheathenate, have a <snerk> Quickie! <snerk> N.O.L. and pursue sloth afterwards. This bein’ the first Sunday in Lent we shall begin the service with The Great Litany. Also known as The Great Monotony. Actually I like The Great Litany especially when it’s sung as we will today.
Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy demands to be fed. Also, purtification for deheatenization must be accomplished.
Happy Sunday Y’all!
Good morning mumpers!! Busy making some fresh Krispy Kreme donuts disappear as I type this, so things are good. The rain has left so it’s sunny but cool (40F) but into the 70’s on Moanday.
Planning on doing as little as possible today. I am in full “maybe tomorrow” mode.
I can haz cultural question?
Disclaimer: I know books and movies are full of shit. In a way, telling a story is bullshitting the listener, who is a voluntary accomplice to being bullshitted. I know anything that’s key to the story is likely to come out of the writers’ left elbow or worse.
But sometimes there’s a detail which I would have thought invented that life shows me to be true, and these have included important key points about the way some subjects are taught in different places. OK, so I’m watching this movie and at one point there’s a math class and “it’s unsolvable, you have too many variables; you need to know z”. That’s not at all the way we would have phrased it; would it make sense to any of you guys or was the writer as familiar with actual multivariant algebra as I am with the intrincacies of Cantonese grammar?
(We would have said “there’s one more variables than equations; you need to pick one variable and solve for that one”. Solving for a variable means that you indicate what would be the results of the rest as a function of the values that one takes).
What’s the difference?
The rain & then snow started right about predicted last night, the snow came down fast & furious at first & then…stopped. No continuing thru the evening (when I was going to go out & get some long exposure pics of it :(), no heaviest overnight, no snowshoeing this morning. :mad: Across the street (sunny side) the driveways were barely wet, mine needed the ice scraper & then the shovel.
Time to start the rest of the day’s activities; I’m already like the butcher who backed into the meat grinder.[spoiler]He got a little behind in his work.
Try the waitresses, tip me, & the veal will be here all week. [/spoiler]
No worship today; we’re being Catholic and going to the Convent this evening for vespers (and to visit Aunt Sister Jean) so we decided to sleep in. Not as much snow as predicted but some ice early on which is melting away as I type this.
doggio, it was fun.Good art, good music and good beer. You couldn’t ask for more.
nava, I don’t have the answer to your first question, but the spoon thing I do. A regular spoon on the table that one would use to add sugar to and stir coffee with or eat peas is smaller and in restaurants, a different shape than a soup spoon.teaspoon flatware - Bing In home flatware sets, the soup spoon is usually just a bigger version of a regular spoon. soup spoons stainless - Bing In a restaurant, it’s usually a round spoon with a deeper bowl. https://finestflatware.com/products/oneida-king-james-18-8-stainless-set-of-4-bouillon-round-bowl-soup-spoons?variant=21032186694&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=Bing%20PLA&utm_campaign=Shopify%20Shopping%20Campaign%20(manual%20cpc%2010/18/17)&utm_term=soup%20spoons%20stainless&utm_content
Getting the usual Sunday chores done today. If it doesn’t start raining, I’ll take Nelson to the dog park. If it rains, we’ll go to PetSmart so he can be around other puppers.
The new door is in place, but due to the difference in the sizes of the old and new frames, I need to get some paint to touch up around the new frame. Plus we need a new piece of base molding since the old one is about an inch too short. Dammit.
We’re about to head to Lowe’s and to lunch.
Oh, and the laundry’s done. All I have left to do is clean the critter fountain. And chill. Much chillage on tap for the afternoon.
screech OK, stop right there. In Spain the spoon one would use to use sugar to and stir coffee with
and the spoon one would use to eat peas or soup with
are different ones. The second one is bigger, akin in size to the general forks, whereas the first one is part of the dessert/breakfast sizes.
ISTM like what you guys are calling a “regular spoon” is what we call a “(coffee) little-spoon” (cucharilla or cucharilla de café) and what you guys are calling a “soap spoon” is our “spoon” (cuchara).
In one of those sets of cutlery that carry several servings containing one spoon, one fork and one knife each, would you call that one a “soup spoon” or a “regular spoon”? We’d call it “spoon” and use it to eat soup or peas, but not to add sugar to coffee (you’d risk kicking all the coffee out of the cup if you did that).
Nava - have I got some news for you. heh, heh, heh.
OK - first up - you are right on the math in the film. It was written to sound math-y for a non-maths person. It was not a cultural thing at all.
On to spoons - if we are using a full table service, we would have several types of spoons.
[ul]
[li]A very small spoon for sugar, jam, or stirring coffee[/li][li]A long handled spoon, called an “iced-tea spoon” that we use for stirring tall drinks[/li][li]A dinner spoon, usually called a “tea spoon”, which is set with the meal and is used with the meal[/li][li]A soup spoon, also referred to as a table spoon, which is used for soup - it is larger and generally has a bigger bowl - you would use it for liquids[/li][li]If you get really persnickety, there is a ridged spoon used with fruit[/li][li]And… possibly, yet another spoon for dessert[/li][/ul]
It was snowing when I got up. I’ll just sit here with my coffee and pretend I know nothink!
Hubby leaves today for 2 weeks. He hates traveling, so he’s miserable and grouchy, poor thing. I am making myself available to help him get ready, and otherwise staying out of his way.
MetalMouse it sounds like you’re having a good morning.
Ruble & Spidey are we narrowing down the type of our new toy?
Speaking of which, do y’all remember when someone took the tank from the National Guard Armory in Southern California (I believe) and went on a car flattening spree with it? I believe the good times ended when it ran out of gas. I can’t remember if he was trying to reach his girlfriend’s car or what his story was. 
I’m used to eating with a knife, a fork and a spoon. However, Mama Plant had a box of these. Nine pieces, and the correct one was expected to be used.
I should add that if one isn’t being formal the spoon in that 3-piece table setting you mention is also the spoon that is used to stir coffee, AKA the “regular spoon”. A lifetime of practice keeps us from sloshing over the side. Of course, we also favor GIANT mugs. 
Now I want to go through and name all of flytrap’s setting pieces. It was missing the iced tea spoon and the ridged fruit spoon. sniff Of course, it has things that we didn’t use, so I’m a déclassé peon.
Actually, your mugs are the size of our regular coffee cups but taller. The volume is the same, the form factor is different.
And thank y’all for the culturation and edumacation.
Ridged fruit spoon, AKA grapefruit spoon.
Maybe. At a certain point I can be happy with anything!!!
Sort of like the carefree days of my youth come about Last Call
Regarding spoons - my flatware rack has 2 sizes - teaspoons and tablespoons. Tablespoons are used as serving spoons. Teaspoons are for eating cereal, soup, ice cream, and anything one eats with a spoon.
I don’t care what Miss Manners says and I don’t care what any of you folks think either. So 
Back from Lowe’s. I was able to get a sample size of paint that theoretically is the same color as our walls. I’ll use it to touch up where I’m about to spackle. If the mismatch is too awful, I’ll deal with repainting the hall some day. But not any time soon. Maybe when I paint the baby’s room.
But first, time to clean the critters’ fountain.