Running Bear’s April 2026 Coffee Shop

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Good Morning All!
58F @ 47% partly with some wind. Was 55F when I got up at 0330 - 55F? Must be spring!

Burning pretty much done for this year. It did get pretty hot at times and needed to move the chairs, tractor and other stuff further away a few times. Dumb Sh.t me decided to take out underbrush between Neighbor Brice and us. Did talk with him about it and he OkieDokie'd it. Ya, all green stuff so now the burn pile is about 30ft in diameter and I can not pile anymore on top. So, another pile started. Don't think those will dry in the next 20ish days, so next year.

Maria found a ...um... rustic medicine cabinet in Bonner's Ferry, so off we go for that and Super 1 as we are out of fruit, milk ... stuff like that.

Geesh, just looked outside at the burn pile, wind has started things going again. Maybe.....

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Good morning all, lifting my coffee cup to you. 57 here now and sunny supposed to get around 70 today. My Missus is going to lunch with our G'niece Nataley since she is getting off school early today. My plans are to drink coffee. Thank you guys for the well wishes and prayers [they are always coveted].
TomO the logos all look good, but I think the bottom one looks best.
The Moon Mission looks great, I think we need to be there just to mess with some of the far out radicals. Tell them we are not invading, but since we were the first ones there, we are the indigenous people! I know I have a sadistic sense of humor. 😁
You guys have a great day today.
 


Well, I get to go screwing this afternoon.

I just cut a bunch of Fascia boards.

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What's the collective noun of muliple fascia? (not the plural... like a Murder of Crows)? Would be a Tendon of Fascia? A Mussolini of Fascia? A foot of Fascia?
 
troyphoto said:
Well, I get to go screwing this afternoon.

I just cut a bunch of Fascia boards.

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What's the collective noun of muliple fascia? (not the plural... like a Murder of Crows)? Would be a Tendon of Fascia? A Mussolini of Fascia? A foot of Fascia?
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A plethora. But "bunch" was just fine too, IMO. That said, it would probably be too weird as a title to a TV show.

And if I may add, as to your opening sentence: Way TMI. Although not intended as such, I'm sure.
 
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Good afternoon, all! Some fine weather for the next couple of days. Overnight temps in the 50's with daytime highs in the mid 70's. Best of all the humidity is down. I haven't posted much lately, mostly because I had nothing to say. We just plod along, day by day.

Louis - It was nice to hear Cecilia was doing well.
TomO - Like the logo. I may have to dabble and see if I create one for myself.
Kevin - Hopefully PT takes care of the issue.
John - I was going to comment something in vain of "where Jimmy Hoffa ended up" but I remembered you're in the UK, and it might be meaningless.
Boris - Loved the NYSW loco, but what caught my eye more so was TEXT STOP. It's been a long time since we've been on a road trip.

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STAY SAFE
LATER
 
RhB Michael said:
The plural form of fascia is fascias or fasciae.

What is the difference between a collective (more than one) noun and a plural noun?
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Well, for example, a team is singular (British folks notwithstanding) but it represents a collective of people. But more to the point, the collective is a single object that represents a plural number of objects. You can have two murders of crows. One on that side of the tracks, and one on this side. The collective itself is the noun, not the items it's composed of.
 


chadbag said:
Well, for example, a team is singular (British folks notwithstanding) but it represents a collective of people. But more to the point, the collective is a single object that represents a plural number of objects. You can have two murders of crows. One on that side of the tracks, and one on this side. The collective itself is the noun, not the items it's composed of.
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Way over my pay grade, but I'm sure you are right. Which leaves me wondering: Would two murders of crows then be referred to as just a single murder? In which case parsing it back out into two requires further explanation. Or would the two combined be knows as murderers?

And, running further along the rail...: Would three murders of crows or more all perched upon the same power-line...be known as "Murderers Row?"

These are the kind of questions that have me staring at the ceiling all night. And why I wander in here at 3 AM too.
 
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chadbag said:
Well, for example, a team is singular (British folks notwithstanding) but it represents a collective of people. But more to the point, the collective is a single object that represents a plural number of objects. You can have two murders of crows. One on that side of the tracks, and one on this side. The collective itself is the noun, not the items it's composed of.
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But also a collective of only those crows a part of it, right? Not a part of the crows which are each a part of the collective on the other side of the road?
 


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