After noon. You are back from picking up
three bags of dirt for a hole in the north quadrant of yard. -- The bags and
distributed, raked, seeded and covered with straw. Carol is finding a small
hole for the remainder of the last bag. - Amorella
1327 hours. "Remainder" doesn't look spelled correctly but the
checker has it correct. I checked, and it is correct. I cannot remember the
last time I used the word. Perhaps my error is because I'm not familiar with
seeing it in print. The self-evident "main" as the base is the
problem. According to my Oxford/American the origin is Middle English from
Anglo-Norman French, from the Latin remanere. This origin is from late
Middle English which is from the Old French (expressing extreme
force) and manere meaning to
stay. I never thought of remain in terms of staying through extreme force
-- I was thinking of remainder in terms of a division problem, not those
remaining of an Army division, for example. Words are so interesting it is no
wonder I have spent a lifetime in their organization and manipulation of
thought. How can anyone be bored living in this world?
You drove for three more bags of dirt. Didn't listen closely
enough to Carol direction for placement (where she already had seed) dropped
more on, tried to rectify it, apologized and you are letting her do the rest
herself (which is what you believe she wanted to do in the first place). -
Amorella
1427 hours. After fifty years of marriage one would
have thought I would have caught onto the situation but I didn't. I just wanted
to get it done and go back inside to the air conditioning. When I got over to
Ace Hardware I told Jim and his mother that if I had bought six bags of dirt to
begin with I would have had three 'remain' in the garage to soldier on for
another day. Both agreed as it is one of those unwritten laws covered by
working in or around the house. You don't have to inspect too many garages or
sheds to know this is true.
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