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

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[RosieCotton]

Hats are cheaper!

[RMDupree]

I'm left speechless and dsiturbed by that photo, g'nad.

[JenB]

We have heaters, it's just I'm always colder than everyone else around me. Usually in the winter I wear layers but I forgot today. Oh well.

[HairOfTheDog]

Yes, hats are cheaper... But the oven costs more to heat than the furnace.

[RosieCotton]

Those look nice and soft.

This isn't really THAT weird, though, is it?

I think people used to usually wear a stocking cap to bed, back when houses were harder to heat.

[Wneighbor]

The reason I used to bake bread so often was that it warmed up the kitchen so nicely! Oven on for a while, nice fresh bread fragrance.... and then, I don't eat the bread. So, I'm not making it with just me here. Would be a HUGH waste.

[RosieCotton]

I don't use the oven to heat...but staying in the kitchen when I'm cooking is only good sense! It's warmer in there.

Does mean that whenever I have my brothers over, they crank up the heat...'cause they AREN'T in the kitchen and they think I keep the house too cold - mid sixties, which really isn't all THAT cold.

[Wneighbor]

Yeah, I still don't understand Aragorn's choice. Here is a warrior woman of royal lineage throwing herself at him, and he turns her down for an ~elf~

I think I'm offended. Are you lookin' to see the warrior woman side of an elf?

[HairOfTheDog]

people used to usually wear a stocking cap to bed, back when houses were harder to heat.

Yes, back then! My grandma said that in Minnesota winters, the kids all put a big rock in the fireplace (like the size of a football, in the evening, and when it was time to go to bed, they would wrap the hot rock in a towel or blanket and take it to bed with them.

But that was when there was no 'lectricity.

[HairOfTheDog]

They called the rock a 'pig'.

[JenB]

Aragorn's not good enough for Eowyn anyway. Besides he's too old.

[Wneighbor]

I like that newboy! He's showing real promise in that photo! :-)

Might hafta get one of those for Buck. :-)

[ecurbh]

Yeah, Eowyn does deserve someone that understands concepts like soap and shampoo.

[HairOfTheDog]

Fantastic pic, g'nad!

[RosieCotton]

My grandma said that in Minnesota winters, the kids all put a big rock in the fireplace (like the size of a football, in the evening, and when it was time to go to bed, they would wrap the hot rock in a towel or blanket and take it to bed with them.

Heh...we used to do that, back when we had the old wood stove. Thing didn't heat worth a darn...there would occasionally be ice in the toilet and the bedrooms were NOT toasty. I think my folks just figured that's how woodstoves heated...until they got the new one. That thing puts out a LOT of heat, and though it's still colder upstairs than down, it isn't as bad as it was.

[JenB]

Or the concept of "quality time".

[RosieCotton]

Got any pictures of that individual?

[ecurbh]

Umm... yeah. Just a minute.

[Corin Stormhands]

nothin' wrong with a little night cap...

[Wneighbor]

Do you ladies have something against heaters?

Nope! My heater is on. And as I've told EVERYONE who knows me back home my favorite thing about my new house is having HEAT!!! My old house didn't have heat or air conditioning. Heat was provided by a coupla space heaters. Hence, maniacal bread baking whenever we were home long enough.

No dryer to heat the house there even. It was in one of the outbuildings so that was wasted warmth to us. The cats stayed *real* close to it though. :-)