The Hobbit Hole IX - A sudden tree or standing stone

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

A sudden tree or standing stone

• 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...
• Eighth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we may meet...

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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[Corin Stormhands]

rats

[Corin Stormhands]

it has taken Hair...

[JenB]

Hunnerd miles or so. I've persuaded the boss to send me up Sunday afternoon.

[JenB]

Testing new tagline. Hmm. Maybe not.

[HairOfTheDog]

I like it!

[RMDupree]

I'll have to wait until I see something that just grabs my attention, then quickly change it to my tagline bfore someone else does! :-)

[HairOfTheDog]

I spied it! Have you gotten any ~sleep~ at all?

[RMDupree]

Now you're gonna get me in trouble at work. I laughed so loud just now!!!

[RMDupree]

"Fonzie's a hobbit" fits nicely in the keywords.

[Fedora]

Or "impatiences" - however you spell it.

We thinks it's "impatienceses", that we does :)

[Wneighbor]

I slept from the time of my last post till the time of my first post this morning. I'm still in bed. Sitting up in bed with the laptop in my lap. No coffee still though.

Zeus the pit bull who sleeps with me here woke me up to go out and potty. He's back in now snoring on the floor beside me. He's such a big baby.

[HairOfTheDog]

Where are you and who is this pit bull you are sleeping with ;~D

[Fedora]

Where I'm going to be living is an incredibly safe town. Very little violence or anything. But... in my apartment, at night, alone, a gun would at least give me peace of mind.

I recommend a reverse-blade sword :) Seriously, in addition to getting a gun and learning some basic self-defense, I'd encourage you to look into some home security equipment. There's a company in Evergreen, Colorado called Phoenix Systems, Inc. which has a mail-order catalog I sometimes use that sells reasonably-priced personal and home security equipment--motion detectors, alarms, booby traps, stun guns, etc. You should be able to get their catalog by calling 303-277-0305.

[HairOfTheDog]

booby traps

Yeah - Jen prolly won't be comin' home all plastered the way I did...

[Wneighbor]

I'm at Aunt Cheryl's house. In Valley Mills, Texas. Home country. I am 8.5 miles from my old place near The Ranch. Cheryl and Lynn's house is right across the street from the bed and breakfast where they put up Tony Blair on his visit to this area. I took a picture of Flat Frodo in front of that house.

Zeus is my cousin Jason's pit bull. He thinks he's a lap dog. Somehow Aunt Cheryl and I both ended up with our kid's dogs when the kids moved off.

Zeus is one of the few other dogs that Smeagol gets along with. Smeagol is staying here when I leave today so she'll have a good spot to be when I come up there for wedding moot. With gas prices the way they are I can't see making another trip here in 3 weeks. Don't have that kind of extra cash layin' around so she'll be here with Zeus for about 6 weeks.

[JenB]

If I ever get plastered, I'm sure it'll be at home.

(My mom makes this wonderful little drink with vodka and lemmons sometimes. Mmm... but I've never had more than half of one)

[Wneighbor]

Yeah - Jen prolly won't be comin' home all plastered the way I did...

But, she said she wanted to have Entmoot '05 in Colorado!

[Fedora]

Shotgun would be better than a rifle for home defense... especially in an apartment. You need the opposite of long range ;~D

Once they get in the house at short range, anything is a weapon :) A good drill is to practice looking around the various rooms of the house and identifying potential weapons which can be grabbed in an emergency. The kitchen is a good example: you've got knives, other utensils (which can be thrown as well as wielded--in Rapid Fire Brandon Lee gets trapped in the kitchen, so one thing he does is grab a drawer full of silverware and toss it in his attacker's eyes--then he slams the refrigerator's freezer door into his nose, LOL!), frying pans (I remember Samwise used one of those in Moria :). . .If you find a room without weapons handy, think of something you can keep there.

[Fedora]

They did steal it from us--filthy thieveses! (BTW how come in the pic Dennis Kucinich is holding the Sore-Loserman sign? :-)

[Fedora]

PS: I didn't have room to fit it in the tagline, but Smeagol's campaign motto is that he's the only candidate who disagrees with himself more than Kerry :)