The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...

ecurbh

[ecurbh]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)
• Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On...

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

[g'nad]

the dogs have a pen... but there's a gap in it... they don't think their dogs would leave the pen... (in a pig's eye...) my wife told them they need to fix the pen...

[osagebowman]

g'nad; yup, the "our dogs never go off our place" type; got 'em in the city, got 'em in the country. A simple application of shoot-shovel-shutup may be what is called for. Unfortunate for all concerned but obviously necessary.

[msdrby]

Elf-boy's godmother has a brother heading out to Iraq next week. I am working on an address for him. I will let you and WN know when I get it. (Got to show off the knife today.)

[300winmag]

Elf-boy's godmother has a brother heading out to Iraq next week. I am working on an address for him.

Please work fast. I'd much rather send it out while they're still here, rather than after they're overseas. Thanks for the good detective work.

[msdrby]

Unfortunately, he is heading out from Germany, not from here. Else, I would have had his address sooner.

[msdrby]

(He was home for Christmas on leave, but left before I could get his address, and Elf-boy's godmother doesn't know the Germany address ~ I'm going through his father to get the new address.)

[Rose in RoseBear]

I love dogs, but you're perfectly right, g'nad. If they go after you, what would they do to your stoopidbirds and your kids?

As for "oh, my dogs would never get out of our yard ..." Bullwheeze. I've owned dogs. When I was a kid, we put up an eight-foot-tall hurricane fence around our property. Even that didn't dissuade our dogs from escaping on occasion --- if they didn't dig out, they would crawl up that eight-foot chainlink fence to get out.

They're warned. Now do as you must.

[Professional Engineer]

I was watching via internet from the NASA/JPL website. Really cool. It went from 12,000 mph/102 miles up to ZERO/touchdown in thirty seconds.

[300winmag]

I was watching via internet from the NASA/JPL website. Really cool. It went from 12,000 mph/102 miles up to ZERO/touchdown in thirty seconds.

I can't get live video through the firewall, so I had to depend on the knowledgeable freepers on the live thread. It seems like the lander was rolling around for about half an hour, based on the fluctuating radio signal. Then they decided that the low earth angle was responsible for signal multipathing that made it look like the lander was rolling.

I'm glad they got that settled, since I was racking my brains, trying to figure out what would keep the thing rolling along for so long. It looks like it's not setting on the base petal, but it can right itself later. Waiting for news of NASA news conference later.

[Professional Engineer]

It looks like it's not setting on the base petal, but it can right itself later. Waiting for news of NASA news conference later.

I think Spirit came down on the base petal. Pretty neat how any petal down works. Just unfold, and it self rights.

[300winmag]

Pretty neat how any petal down works. Just unfold, and it self rights.

But it's only upright when the base petal is on the ground. It keeps flipping from petal to petal until the base is on the ground. It's also pretty amazing how this bigger vehicle folds itself up into a volume the same size as the smaller Sojurner. That's because it had to fit inside the same airbag system and launch fairing.

[Professional Engineer]

I didn't realize they were the same airframe/air bag system. Makes sense though.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Ann does need to eat a few cheeseburgers doesn't she.

And some ice cream. And a few steaks.

(I got called a "liberal fat chick" on another "We Love Ann Coulter" thread right here on FR when I said pretty much the same thing! lol)

[GulfWar1Vet]

Good morning all...:)

[g'nad]

g'mornin'...

we gots ice here... everything's coated and it's still comin' down... it's s'posed tuh change tuh rain in the afternoon, then back to freezin' rain and snow tuhnite, snow tuhmorrow, and mebbe tuhmorrow nite...

guess church is cancelled...

[RosieCotton]

Good morning! Looks like you're the first one up! Lazy hobbitses...

Though I suppose maybe they're just busy with first breakfast?

Catching up on news here...

[RosieCotton]

we gots ice here... everything's coated and it's still comin' down...

Oh, yuck! Not good!

Close to fifteen below here with plenty o' wind...but that's wayyyyyy better than ice any day!

[g'nad]

yeah... the stoopidbirds is hatin' it...

still on coffee here... gots to wait till the chickens lay some eggses fer breakfast... thet're squeezin' 'em out now...

[RosieCotton]

Gonna stand over 'em with a frying pan?

Have they recovered from the invasion yet?

Stupid neighbors...

[SuziQ]

Nah...we had real wimmin there.

Spoken like a TRUE Southern Gentleman!