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Posted on 12/11/2003 2:07:57 PM PST by ecurbh
I'm getting ready to settle in and watch American Idol.
I don't know whether it's FR or my lousy dial-up, but it's taking forever to load the pages. I'm going to throw myself in bed for a while.
Be back later!
Entmoot 2004: There and Back Again, a Hobbit’s Tale
Morning on Monday, Jan . 12…I didn’t get up early enough to watch the sun rise. The wind has died down and the surf isn’t as heavy. It’s supposed to be warmer today. Yay!Mmmmm….bacon for breakfast. G’nad fried bacon and cooked eggs to order (I had scrambled with cheese on top.) Hair and Mrs. G’nad made those shake – n – pour pancakes. Ecurbh had James Taylor playing. I went back for bacon and there were two left on the plate…got one. Mrs. G’nad came back “who ate my bacon!” Uh –oh…..it was still on the paper towel and I didn’t know it was spoken for. Rosie’s trio started playing after James Taylor.
Wneighbor mixed bread while we clean up the kitchen and there’s yet another grocery list being drawn up. Ruthy posted that she’ll be coming back on Wednesday! I wrote this on the oceanside deck since it’s warmer outside today. The wind has picked up. There are fisher guys…at least three…up and down the beach. G’nad’s kids wanted to swim and/or boogeyboard in the ocean. That didn’t last long. They switched to the pool after a few minutes. G’nad said that there were jelly fish washing up on the beach. Mmmmm….Wneighbor’s bread can be smelled throughout the house while Anime is playing on the big screen. Kewl! Wneighbor’s making salsa too!
I made the Balrog Wings today. Hehehe…..I made them around lunchtime, more or less, right when g’nad, Hair, ecurbh, Ramius, and SuziQ went to pick up tickets for NASA. Later on that evening while waiting for supper, I posted on the thread that I had made the wings. That’s how Hair found out about them.
The pool guy came and told us we should keep the pool covered so it would heat properly. They covered it up so it would be nice and tasty that evening. The bug man came and sprayed…woo hoo! Jen and Rosie went out boogey-boarding and got scraped up a little on the sand. I got too close to the water (just wanted to see how cold it was) and got my jeans soaked. Laundry time coming up!
It’s a lazy afternoon at the beach kind of day and I spent the day being lazy. Spent some time staring at the water, listening to the surf, watching birds. We saw some dolphins. The fisher folk were out and there were a couple of guys out in the water looking like they might try surfing any minute. There was this older guy walking on the beach toting a golf club. Okaaaaaayyyyy……
While waiting for supper, I was keeping 2J company on the thread. Steve was at his class and she was watching The Two Towers Extended Edition that I sent. Supper. G’nad grilled chicken breasts and mushrooms and SuziQ made bowtie pasta with a white sauce that had sun-dried tomatoes in it. We had steamed broccoli, salad, and garlic bread. Mmmmmmmm…..
We watched ecurbh’s Bugs Bunny cartoons and suffered two crises: 1. the ice machine isn’t working right and 2. the remote for the DVD player went missing….AAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!
After supper I just hung out with Wneighbor, Hair and Ramius on the patio. Hair wants a coconut to take home and root. Wneighbor was thinking about stealing onoe off the neighbor’s tree. (the neighbor has great landscaping.) Ramius was saying that you don’t steal from private citizens…steal from the government. That’s The Code he and his buddies lived by in college, I believe, and told how they snitched a flag from a state building. “Great!” Wneighbor says, “You can help with the coconut.” But Ramius, true to The Code, declines. There was some discussion about whether Hair could get her rooting coconut at a roadside stand or a nursery place or just asking the neighbor if she could have one from his tree. Hair posted to Ruthy asking if she (Ruthy) could get one for her.
What does this look like happened? This is the back of my pony's head right behind her ear, which I am holding in my hand. The epidermis skin with the hair on it dried up in a big dry flap and fell off. The skin underneath is pretty clean looking, not puffy or weepy, just new skin and doesn't seem painful, in fact the pony likes me rubbing it, as if that dead skin itched till I pulled it off. Is this what rain rot looks like or is this something else?
Greetings from Steve in Mosul
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