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The Hobbit Hole IX - A sudden tree or standing stone
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Posted on 05/05/2004 7:57:51 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

A sudden tree or standing stone

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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To: Corin Stormhands

Sounds like sneaking out while they're gone would be easy enough... if not for the risk of getting caught. What about one of those 'safety guy' mannequins that will sit in the passenger seat of the car... can you prop up one of those at your desk? ;~D


3,361 posted on 05/18/2004 10:32:19 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog (I am HairOfTheDog and I approved this message.)
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To: HairOfTheDog

It woulda worked before they moved me to Fangorn...


3,362 posted on 05/18/2004 10:37:04 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Senator Kennedy, please take the panties off your head.)
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To: 2Jedismom
I have never had Matthew tested...really need to I guess.

You could administer the test yourself. You can spread it out over several days like they do in schools. I got the test booklets and stuff from Bob Jones University. They send the test answer sheets and the booklets with the questions. Matthew would read the questions and mark the answers on the test sheets. When you're done. you send the whole shebang back to BJU, they'll grade the test and send you the results. I did both the Iowa Test of Basic Skills and the Cognitive Tests with Clare and Joseph.

If he's never done one of those 'bubble tests' before, you can just make a couple of copies of one of the answer sheets and let him practice filling in the 'bubbles' so he can see how easy it is to both fill in or erase, if he marks the wrong one. He'll be less nervous taking the test if he understands that. I think it is less than $50 for both tests and the grading service.

3,363 posted on 05/18/2004 10:40:01 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: JenB
Just tell her when she makes 99th percentile that she should have been 100 (those percentiles always confused me. It always seemed 100 should have been the highest. Is there a 0th percentile?)

We had parents at the Catholic school our kids attended that used to argue with the principal about why their child should not have been in the 99th percentile because they didn't get any wrong answers. She had to explain carefully that their kids WERE the 100th, that 99% were BELOW them. Took them a bit to process that. ;o)

3,364 posted on 05/18/2004 10:45:40 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

Wow, they let you do that yourself? In PA, they have to be administered by a certified teacher or the state won't accept the results. We had to be tested in 3, 5, and 8th grades, as well as turning in a portfolio and evaluation every year.

Mom's so happy. Next year she's down to just three portfolios to have to worry about.


3,365 posted on 05/18/2004 10:46:42 AM PDT by JenB
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Marking my place.


3,366 posted on 05/18/2004 10:47:07 AM PDT by RosieCotton ("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: 2Jedismom
Then I tied several of those bags to the low spot and now Roy won't go near it.

LOL!! You's a smart girl!!

3,367 posted on 05/18/2004 10:50:17 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

Makes me feel not so stupid for having thought the same thing in 3rd grade!

Mom always said the tests didn't mean anything anyway, they were just something the state required. She knew how we were doing, and didn't care if we were 99th% or 5th%.


3,368 posted on 05/18/2004 10:51:05 AM PDT by JenB
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To: RosieCotton; g'nad
Marking my place.

You shure you ain't got some dwarf in ya?

3,369 posted on 05/18/2004 10:54:57 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Senator Kennedy, please take the panties off your head.)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Sticklebats! Head troll will be back in about 20 minutes...


3,370 posted on 05/18/2004 10:58:38 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Senator Kennedy, please take the panties off your head.)
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To: Corin Stormhands

I think Jr.'s paintball gun would fit the bill nicely. It would be clear in just WHOSE yard the dogs had been!


3,371 posted on 05/18/2004 10:59:31 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Wneighbor
we gots the ovaries to see it all done!

Hey, great election slogan! Goes along with, "We don't need no cojones!

3,372 posted on 05/18/2004 11:02:16 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ; Wneighbor; g'nad; ksen; Bear_in_RoseBear; Sam Cree; Ramius; Scott from the Left Coast; ...
"We don't need no cojones!

You'd miss 'em if they wuz all gone.

3,373 posted on 05/18/2004 11:06:44 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Senator Kennedy, please take the panties off your head.)
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To: SuziQ; Corin Stormhands; Wneighbor; Ramius
"We don't need no cojones!

you sure you don't wanna re-think that?...

3,374 posted on 05/18/2004 11:21:33 AM PDT by g'nad (Islam delende est...)
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To: Darksheare
Would have ot call my cat "Miss Bigglesworth" then.

Or "Bride of Bigglesworth"--LOL!

3,375 posted on 05/18/2004 11:33:06 AM PDT by Fedora (I'm Fedora, and I approved this message before I disapproved it)
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To: JenB

Hope you don't get any floods! It'd be nice to have the night off, I bet, though. What will you do with your time off?

I'm watching Kenshin Disc 4 right now. Strangely it won't play on my computer, but the DVD player on the TV will play it.


3,376 posted on 05/18/2004 11:36:22 AM PDT by Fedora (I'm Fedora, and I approved this message before I disapproved it)
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To: JenB
In PA, they have to be administered by a certified teacher or the state won't accept the results.

There is no 'state authority' dealing with homeschoolers in MA. Surprising, actually, considering it's such a nanny state otherwise. We've had great folks who have been lobbying for us.

I did the test for my own use; I didn't have to turn them in to anyone. The first two years we h/sed, I didn't even send in any paperwork to the town School Committee. No one ever asked for anything! At the beginning of this year, the Asst. Supt. asked for a few samples of work, but I haven't sent in anything yet. Just haven't gotten around to it! I don't have to do anything next year though because Joseph will be going back to school. He's going to St. John's, the all boys Catholic high school Paul and David attended. Clare is 16 now, and after that age, you don't have to report at all!

3,377 posted on 05/18/2004 11:49:41 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Fedora

Miss Bigglesworth, AKA "Kearen Cat"
3,378 posted on 05/18/2004 11:53:24 AM PDT by Darksheare (I run down hallways with an idling chainsaw dressed only in my boxers!)
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To: Fedora

Oh, we're having a lovely thunderstorm. Really loud thunder. Glad my computer's plugged into a surge protector.

If I don't have choir, I'll lift, then read a little - halfway through my reread of "Otherland", I was inspired to finish the reread by "Troy" the other night. Quartet by Tad Williams. Amazing series.

Then I'll watch one, or maybe two, Kenshin. I'm on disk 11. Sigh. It'll be done soon. You on the other hand are about the start the Kyoto arc. You'll know it's started when the blood starts flowing.

Of course, it's starting to look like I'll be working late so evening plans may be moot. Ha! Another problem demolished. This is satisfying yet time-consuming.


3,379 posted on 05/18/2004 11:53:37 AM PDT by JenB
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To: SuziQ

Whoa, that's nice. PA is one of the most restrictive states. I can't believe all the hoops Mom has to jump through.

On the other hand, in PA kids are not required to attend school until they're eight, so you only have to turn stuff in for eight years.


3,380 posted on 05/18/2004 11:54:53 AM PDT by JenB
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