The Hobbit Hole XII - Tree and flower and leaf and grass

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

...Tree and flower and leaf and grass

• 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...
• Ninth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IX - A sudden tree or standing stone
• Tenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole X - That none have seen but we alone.
      Special Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!

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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[RosieCotton]

How do you work 'em?

[PurpleQ]

:-O

OMGosh! Shame on you!

[RMDupree]

It is the easiest thing in the world, Rosie!

Just unscrew top and add water to the bottom part, Then you put in the middle part which is like a metal strainer, that's where you add the espresso grounds, pack down, but not too tight. Then screw on the top tightly and put it on the burner. Done!

Once it starts perking, you can stir up the first drops with a teaspoon of sugar (or Splenda, in your case) in a mug until it forms a caramel-looking cream. Add the rest of the coffee to this cream when the perk is complete and you have a delicious large espresso.

Serve in small cups like these.

[JenB]

Hah! Used the first few minutes of lunch break to register for my classes. Good thing, too. One was down to 7 seats left. That class is going to have over forty people in it! I've never had a CS class so big.

Now, fix lunch and stare at the campus map so I know where I'm going....

[HairOfTheDog]

Yeah.... I know. It was a bad sting.... got stung by several bees. Only takes another one like that and I could be in trouble!

[RMDupree]

Espresso Camping Coffee....yummmmmy

[msdrby]

I was like that. As a kiddo, I got stung by several bumble bees out in the woods in Post Oak (That was where the shootin range was.). I passed out, and came to after we got home, where I promptly threw up all over my mom's shoes.

I have been REAL careful not to get stung since then.

[PurpleQ]

...she wanted to see! Don't let her try to fool ya'

[Wneighbor]

That throat thing was what I was going to call for help for - if it had happened. As it was - I was breathing fine. Just kinda like *bad* flu symptoms.

I did go to the doctor for 2 wasp stings on my ear a few years ago. I was dizzy and feeling like I might pass out. I sought help then.

[RMDupree]

Sexy thongs, Master Dwarf!

I've got to run out and pick up my sister from the mechanic's. She dropped off her car to get the AC fixed.

Be back later!

[RosieCotton]

OK, I want one now...I'll have to check prices next time I'm in a cooking store!

I love espresso and cappuccino, but rarely have it. Not like a lot of places around here serve good espresso! And I got very spoiled during my stay in Italy.

[PurpleQ]

Cya

[msdrby]

I am gonna have to drag out the espresso maker!

[2Jedismom]

In the USA, stings cause 3 to 4 times more deaths than do venomous snakebites. Millions of people in the United States are injured from venoms produced by insects and other arthropods each year. Of these injuries about 25,000 result in severe injuries and about 32 result in deaths. The average person can safely tolerate 10 stings/lb body weight; the average adult can withstand >1000 stings, whereas 500 stings can kill a child. However, one sting can cause a fatal anaphylactic reaction in a hypersensitive person; more often, toxic reactions to Arthropods venom components, may manifest clinically as anaphylaxis, after 50 to 100 stings.

[JenB]

We have a good family friend - sort of a substitute aunt for us kids - who's allergic to nuts and bee stings. Last time we were in Canada, she got stung, and had left her epi-pen at the hotel... we were so scared, but she didn't have a reaction.

[msdrby]

Thanks, check out my profile page. I added the baby ticker to it.

[Wneighbor]

The last time I got stung a lot I didn't have that physical reaction - VERY FORTUNATELY!!!

I was on a bike trip with 7 guys in ministry to northern New Mexico. We were in BFE panhandle of Texas and rode into a swarm of honeybees! They flew into my T-Shirt and started stinging!!! About 1/2 mile ahead was a convenience store that saved my sanity! I pulled in there and I know I freaked those guys out cause I had a tank top on under my T-shirt and I was ripping only that T-shirt off in the parking lot of the store to get them bees gone!

One of the ladies went in the bathroom with me and counted 8 bee stings on me. OMG!!! That was itchy miserable. I put Cortisone on 'em at every gas stop after that trying to get 'em to quit itching.... pretty much gone the next day - but that day was hot and they were terrible for the rest of that ride.

[Corin Stormhands]

Come to think of it...I saw Arachnaphobia in Eastern Washington State...

[2Jedismom]

My neice is allergic to peanuts. She can't even go in Wendy's...they cook (or used to cook) with peanut oil and just the oil in the air would cause a reaction.

I order her Easter candy from Vermont Nut-Free Chocolate. Get her little sister's there too...they don't have any peanut items in their house.

[Wneighbor]

I gotta go back to work. That student just didn't show but I've got more things to get done today so I don't have to work any other days.