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The Hobbit Hole XIV - Hill and Water Under Sky
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Posted on 08/05/2004 5:47:31 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

...Hill and water under sky

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: HairOfTheDog
He asked for four knives, all to be given to his guys.... I think we should send five ;~D

I got the email, and replied to the Major. He WILL get five, including one for himself.

2,921 posted on 08/16/2004 1:49:54 AM PDT by 300winmag (FR's Hobbit Hole supports America's troops)
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To: 300winmag
Good morning!

And "see ya later..."

Time to go to work.

2,922 posted on 08/16/2004 4:03:59 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (Nothing of the Dog.)
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To: ExGeeEye; Overtaxed; RosieCotton; Corin Stormhands; JenB; HairOfTheDog

Good morning happy campers!


2,923 posted on 08/16/2004 4:14:23 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: Lil'freeper
Grumble, grumble, grumble.
2,924 posted on 08/16/2004 4:34:36 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
Just for you, I'll include a special tag:

Good morning happy campers!!! < /sarcasm >

Looking on the bright side- it's a great day! (It's too early for someone to have ruined it.)

2,925 posted on 08/16/2004 4:36:44 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: JenB

My buddy Pete goes by Pchan.


2,926 posted on 08/16/2004 4:42:03 AM PDT by TalonDJ (wanted: witty and insightful tag line)
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To: Lil'freeper

On the other hand it's early enough to think up new deviltries. Hehehe...


2,927 posted on 08/16/2004 4:42:38 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Fedora

Oh I will download it as it comes out and then wait to watch it until there are 15 or 20. once I start on a series I like I prefer to have plenty on hand to really burn the addiction in :P


2,928 posted on 08/16/2004 4:44:35 AM PDT by TalonDJ (wanted: witty and insightful tag line)
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To: Lil'freeper

ug, back to work after a week off... I hope I can remember what I was doing... *crawls off to the shower*


2,929 posted on 08/16/2004 4:46:30 AM PDT by TalonDJ (wanted: witty and insightful tag line)
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To: 300winmag; HairOfTheDog; Wneighbor; ecurbh

What a great way to start the day!

Good morning!


2,930 posted on 08/16/2004 5:15:41 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: Lil'freeper; ExGeeEye; Overtaxed; 2Jedismom; Corin Stormhands; JenB; HairOfTheDog

Good morning! Man...morning came awfully early today.

I'm so behind here I don't know that I'll bother to catch up...it's so much more intimidating going 50 posts at a time instead of a hundred, too! Grrr...

Watched "The Mummy" with my brothers last night. Hadn't seen that before. Entertaining in an Indiana Jones-ish sorta way.


2,931 posted on 08/16/2004 5:21:42 AM PDT by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: TalonDJ

Good morning!


2,932 posted on 08/16/2004 5:24:19 AM PDT by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: Lil'freeper; Corin Stormhands; HairOfTheDog; g'nad; RosieCotton

Well, we picked maters yesterday...and put by 13 pints of sauce! We had an (admittedly small) wheel barrow full of them! I'll post pics here after the jedis get up.

Also picked our first habanero pepper. Steve had a small nibble, didn't chew it, just put it in his mouth for a minute. Had to take it out! He coughed and choked for about 15 minutes!

Our bush is loaded with them...three more should come ripe today!


2,933 posted on 08/16/2004 5:25:55 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: 2Jedismom

My 'maters are really sad. The one tomato holder thingie I had didn't work well (will NOT stay in the ground, no matter what I do!), and the plant is falling over, though I'm doing my best to prop it. And that's the one plant I had left. The other one died.

I do have one cherry tomato plant, and that's doing well, but it's not like I get enough 'maters off of it to be worth anything. It's mostly just decorative.

Maybe next year! And I'd love to have peppers...don't think I could handle habaneros, but jalapenos or something similar would be nice!


2,934 posted on 08/16/2004 5:31:18 AM PDT by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: RosieCotton

Every year, the birds would get our maters! Peck holes in them that would ruin them before we could pick them!

This year we put that big frame over them with bird netting. The jedis could only fit in there to get the tomatoes, which they loved. Got a bumper crop!

Our biggest blow was the gophers got two of our largest tomato plants...sheered them off at the base of the stem, consuming the root ball, even though we'd wrapped the root ball in steel wool...it musta absorbed into the ground. Next year we're gonna make cones of hardware cloth and try planting our big plants like the maters and our squash and cabbage in those.


2,935 posted on 08/16/2004 5:37:20 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: 2Jedismom

I think I'm gonna do the square foot garden thing next year...I'm assuming I'll need to put something behind the back row for the taller plants to climb / be staked to.

How do you normally stake plants? I'm afraid of breaking them!


2,936 posted on 08/16/2004 5:40:44 AM PDT by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: RosieCotton; Corin Stormhands; Lil'freeper

Get "The Square Foot Garden" by...somebody Bartholomew. He tells you how to get started and all kinds of tricks...

Get it soon and you can read and plan all winter!

Biggest problem we have, even during the winter is cabbage loopers getting on our leafy veggies. Yuck, you just can't get them off and if I see one I get sick thinking I mighta missed one. So Steve is going to make a screened box to plant my lettuce and spinach in this year...


2,937 posted on 08/16/2004 5:45:09 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: 2Jedismom

I did pick up a used copy. Haven't really sat down with it, though...it sounds complicated at first glance, but I think I just need to read it. I'm also worrying about how to get the materials and put it together on the cheap. I think probably cinderblocks for the outside of the frame (I can get a good price on those, I think), but not sure how to do the internal dividers.

I'm still having trouble picturing it, though. I mean...my tomato plant is half DEAD, but I'm sure it takes up more than a food. And the zucchini plants are HUGH! Dunno how they'll work in something like that.


2,938 posted on 08/16/2004 5:48:27 AM PDT by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: RosieCotton

You allow for it...he'll tell you (in the book somewhere) how many square feet about each plant will need. And you trim back, too...if you're limited on space. We're not, so we just give the maters all the space they want. We had 4 plants crowded into a 5x10' bed.

And you don't really need dividers...you can just mark them out in the dirt while you're planting. We use a milk crate...one of those plastic box-like jobbers. It's about a square foot. We push it into the dirt to make an indention, then plant inside it.

Hard to describe...again, I wish I lived near ya!


2,939 posted on 08/16/2004 5:58:18 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (TOO MUCH PRESSURE!!)
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To: 2Jedismom; RosieCotton

Good morning all! I have to work this morning, ecurbh has today off.... Today when I get home we are going to figure out a way to block off most of the yard from the pets so we can Weed-n-Feed.


2,940 posted on 08/16/2004 5:59:13 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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