Well, I am ready for tomorrow. After I got home from Austin this afternoon, and after I took a nap while (allegedly) watching the news, and after we had dinner, Jody and I went in to Georgetown to get supplies for me to finish the chicks covering in their enclosed run. The plan is to let them escape the chicken coop tomorrow morning, and I will finish the cover during the day. I figure I have four or five hours of work to get it completed, and then it will be time to take a nap. Or time to cut the grass. Or time to be diverted in to starting another project. We shall see.Hare -- Verb. to go swiftly. tear. Andrew hopped on his motorcycle and hared along the country road to deliver the message to his father.
Did You Know? No doubt you've heard (really) Aesop's fable about the speedy hare and the plodding tortoise. The hare may have lost that race due to a tactical error (stopping to take a nap before reaching the finish line), but the long-eared mammal's overall reputation for swiftness remains intact. It's no surprise, then, that hare is used as a verb meaning "to move quickly." The very old noun hare (which refers, in its most specific zoological sense, to a member of the genus Lepus, whose young are usually able to hop a few minutes after birth) first appeared as hara in a Latin-Old English glossary around the year 700. The verb was a long time in coming: it developed from the noun around the end of the 19th century, and people have been "haring off" and "haring about" ever since.
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