All This and a Rain Barrel
So, on Friday, Mom signed up for a drawing at the fair. Mom won a rain barrel. So, she went in this morning to pick it up. Now I have to modify the gutter downspout for the barrel.
Pulled the burst hydraulic line. I estimate that the other hose is probably a similar length, so I might pick up a second hose just in case. Depending on how much they cost. I already have hydraulic fluid, and I have an idea of how to fill it in the H. One of the long term things I'd like to do is to restore the H. (And build a building to store it, and the hay mower, out of the weather.) That's money I'll have to save up a long time for.
Time for bed. *hugs*
She hoodwinked the rich fool out of much of his fortune.
Word of the day for Sunday August 4, 2013
hoodwink • \HOOD-wink\ • verb
: to deceive by false appearance : dupe
Did you know?
A now-obsolete sense of the word "wink" is "to close one's eyes," and "hoodwink" once meant to cover the eyes of someone, such as a prisoner, with a hood or blindfold. ("Hoodwink" was also once a name for the game of blindman's buff.) This 16th-century term soon came to be used figuratively for veiling the truth. "The Public is easily hood-winked," wrote the Irish physician Charles Lucas in 1756, by which time the figurative use had been around for almost a century and a half. Over two hundred and fifty years later, this meaning of the word hasn't changed a wink.
Pulled the burst hydraulic line. I estimate that the other hose is probably a similar length, so I might pick up a second hose just in case. Depending on how much they cost. I already have hydraulic fluid, and I have an idea of how to fill it in the H. One of the long term things I'd like to do is to restore the H. (And build a building to store it, and the hay mower, out of the weather.) That's money I'll have to save up a long time for.
Time for bed. *hugs*
She hoodwinked the rich fool out of much of his fortune.
Word of the day for Sunday August 4, 2013
hoodwink • \HOOD-wink\ • verb
: to deceive by false appearance : dupe
Did you know?
A now-obsolete sense of the word "wink" is "to close one's eyes," and "hoodwink" once meant to cover the eyes of someone, such as a prisoner, with a hood or blindfold. ("Hoodwink" was also once a name for the game of blindman's buff.) This 16th-century term soon came to be used figuratively for veiling the truth. "The Public is easily hood-winked," wrote the Irish physician Charles Lucas in 1756, by which time the figurative use had been around for almost a century and a half. Over two hundred and fifty years later, this meaning of the word hasn't changed a wink.