The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we may meet...

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Still round the corner we may 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...
• Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...
• Sixth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...
• Seventh Thread: The Hobbit Hole VII - But not yet weary are our feet...

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass! Hill and water under sky, Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate, And though we pass them by today, Tomorrow we may come this way And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun. Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe, Let them go! Let them go! Sand and stone and pool and dell, Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We’ll wander back to home and bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade! Fire and lamp, and meat and bread, And then to bed! And then to bed!

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[HairOfTheDog]

Did you see the ping about the Howard Shore tickets? You are going to be in town on July 15th aren't ya?

We got you a ticket....

Seattle Symphony | Your Order

[Professional Engineer]

I received an e-mail from LT Paul today

Howdy [PE},

I have been meaning to send an e-mail to the Hobbit Hole folks thanking them for the knife that they sent.

I have been running in all directions since I arrived here a week ago. I am at Camp [there be injuns here] at the north end of [injun place] and XX miles east of Fallujah. We are attached to the 1st Cav Division here. I have currently tasked with inspection of base camp structures and construction at this base camp which has included coordinating with the Army, KBR, Fluor Daniels, and Iraqi Contractors to determine who is responsible for utility and building maintenance and to find the original contractor, and to get money approved, etc. etc. This will be a busy year for me. Heard a 122 mm rocket go overhead the other night. It hit a contractor's SUV. Fortunately he was in the latrine at the time.

[JenB]

Ranma is the same length as all anime I've seen - about 25 minutes an episode, so it fits in a half-hour tv slot. Skipping the opening and closing (I liked the first opening, but they switched in the second season and it's boring) I can watch about 3 in one hour.

Unlike most animes, Ranma had seven seasons. Most are one season. Really good anime, like "Rurouni Kenshin" or "Slayers", get two or three. I'm not sure how Ranma rated seven, plus 12 episodes OAV and at least two movies.

[Fedora]

Heh...does it mean I've watched wayyyy too many old movies if I could HEAR Jimmy Stewart saying that line as I read it?

LOL! I can, too! :) Also whenever I think of Jimmy Stewart's voice I think of this Saturday Night Live skit where Dana Carvey imitated him--it was too funny!

[Fedora]

BTW I have the following children's books out of the library right now and I'm trying to decide which to read first--nominations?

Madeleine L'Engle, "A Wrinkle in Time"
Franklin W. Dixon, Hardy Boys #2, "The House on the Cliff"
Kenneth Grahame, "The Wind in the Willows"
Lloyd Alexander, "The Book of Three"
Roald Dahl, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
Dr. Seuss, "The Sneetches and Other Stories", "Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose", "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins", "Bartholomew and the Ooblick"

[JenB]

I still have only the first half of Kenshin. And my sister has to watch it before I can do anything else with it. So, presumably sometime around the middle of May I can ship off my Kenshin for making samurai-shaped cookies.

Also... the person who loaned me Ranma may not want it back (be willing to part with the first four seasons cheaply) so we can see about that too. I'd even send Escaflowne, but the subtitling is too hit-or-miss.

Fedora, would you be interested in 'Scrapped Princess' cookies?

[RMDupree]

Hello Hobbit Hole!!

I've been out of the loop for so long....anything I missed that I should know? *grinning*

[JenB]

Wind in the Willows, hands down. A beautiful story.

But the Dr Seuss books are short. 'The 500 Hats' is a favorite of mine.

[Fedora]

Thanks for passing that on! Glad that guy was in the latrine when the rocket hit his SUV--whew! Prayers for Lt. Paul & Co.

[RosieCotton]

Messing about in boats...simply messing...

Seriously though, many of those are a very quick read...not like you couldn't read the Suess books while reading one of the others.

And I really liked L'Engle's books...though Wrinkle in Time is probably my LEAST favorite. It's the first, so you gotta read it...but I didn't like it as much as the later ones. Still very good, though.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a hoot! The poems are much better than the songs in the movie, IMO...albeit less catchy. The pictures are cool, too.

[Fedora]

Fedora, would you be interested in 'Scrapped Princess' cookies?

Sure! When I bake them I'll probably send you some of my own, too--got some Marvel-shaped cookies for one. . .

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Hi Ruthie!

Have been meaning to ask you, are you planning a trip to Texas soon?

[Fedora]

Hi, Ruthy! I'm still catching up today, so when you find out what you missed tell me, LOL!

[RosieCotton]

Hi, Ruthy! I've been in and out, too, so not sure what big things you've missed.

Hair's friend Sonya is pregnant. That's pretty big news in my book. ;-) And PE and msdrby finished thebabygirl's room. It looks very nice! Pictures are about a hundred posts back, I think...

Hm...what else?

[JenB]

I can make SP cookies - it's a fansub I have thanks to Soupy-kun, on cds. All I have to do is burn 'em. I'll try to do that this week and mail 'em to you.

[JenB]

I liked 'Wrinkle in Time'. Somehow, the characters seemed to drop off after that one. And Calvin was barely in 'Swiftly Tilting Planet'. Hmmph.

I prefer 'Charlie' in book form, too.

[ecurbh]

Hi Ruthy!!

[RosieCotton]

Swiftly Tilting Planet was my favorite, though!

[Fedora]

Yeah, I put Dr. Seuss on the list for the sake of completeness, but I don't really count those 'cause you can always take 5 minutes in the middle of another book to read the good Doctor :) I'm also reading them to study his drawing style--I love the way he draws landscapes.

I read Wind in the Willows once in middle school, but it's been so long that when I saw it on the shelf I wanted to read it again. It sounds like it's between that and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I think I'll read Charlie first because I just saw the movie, then Wind next, and Wrinkle after that.

BTW, how's Lloyd Alexander? When I was a kid I always saw his books in the same part of the library that The Hobbit was and was curious what they were about, but never got around to reading them.

[Fedora]

Thanks, that'd be cool of you! :) I'll send you some mailing instructions shortly.