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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: Professional Engineer

We do? We've been thinking of maybe just a timesharing deal of some kind... a couple weeks in the summer.


6,561 posted on 08/28/2004 8:35:48 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: JenB

She didn't ticket us. Just a warning to got get 'em Monday! I have gotten pulled over often enough, but I've rearely gotten tickets. Of course... The couple I have gotten have been dooooozies.


6,562 posted on 08/28/2004 8:37:15 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: SuziQ
When our #2 son was home, he got me on the Mozilla Firefox browser instead of IE; could that be what the problem was? What viewer would I need to install?

It is probably some Java thing that is not installed in Firefox by default. I have Firefox as my default browser too, but use IE for Java-type things such as the Yahoo chat and game sites. Even if Firefox is installed and set as the default browser, IE should still be on your system (I don't think it ~can~ be removed from Windows).

6,563 posted on 08/28/2004 8:38:30 PM PDT by ecurbh ("Hippies. They wanna save the world, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad." ~Eric Cartman)
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To: JenB

They tend to frown on rebounding checks. ;-(


6,564 posted on 08/28/2004 8:45:15 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (A bumper sticker collage ~ Save Water Drink Nukes your Honor Student and DRIVE!)
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To: HairOfTheDog

LOL. I used to try to imagine parenthood. Reality is approxiamtely a million times better than I imagined.


6,565 posted on 08/28/2004 8:46:31 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (A bumper sticker collage ~ Save Water Drink Nukes your Honor Student and DRIVE!)
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To: JenB; HairOfTheDog

~VEY~ nice pics, Jen! I find that there is just something so spiritually refreshing about the mountains. There just ain't nothing like it. To quote James Taylor:

We thought we ought to walk awhile
So we left that town in a single file
Up and up and up mile after mile after mile

We reached the tree line and I dropped my pack
Sat down on my haunches and I looked back down
Over the mountain
Helpless and speechless and breathless


6,566 posted on 08/28/2004 8:46:49 PM PDT by ecurbh ("Hippies. They wanna save the world, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad." ~Eric Cartman)
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To: All

See y'all later, I'm beat!


6,567 posted on 08/28/2004 8:48:37 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: ecurbh

So, will you be voting for RockyMoot '07?

I love mountains, too. If we get a nice weekend in late September, I want to drive into the mountains again and look at the foliage. I need a hiking partner, though! All these wonderful places to go and no one to share it with!


6,568 posted on 08/28/2004 8:55:19 PM PDT by JenB
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To: JenB

Yeah, Rocky Mootin' would be cool, I'd dig it. I haven't been to the Rockies in several years now. Or we could have it here in the pacific NW... in addition to the mountains, we gots the ocean!


6,569 posted on 08/28/2004 9:08:14 PM PDT by ecurbh ("Hippies. They wanna save the world, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad." ~Eric Cartman)
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To: RosieCotton

I'm in Phase 2, but I ate em anyway! LOL! I found some really tasty sugar free maple flavored syrup made by Maple Grove Farms, the same folks that make the maple syrup we buy!


6,570 posted on 08/28/2004 9:09:24 PM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)
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To: osagebowman

I'd love to go to New Mexico sometime. I suggested it for our family vacation next year, but the older boys wanted to go to Northern California, so we're going to Yosemite! I'll just have to plan the NM trip for 2007!


6,571 posted on 08/28/2004 9:11:39 PM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)
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To: HairOfTheDog

WHOA! Great Banner!


6,572 posted on 08/28/2004 9:12:31 PM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)
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To: JenB

Wow! There's still snow in August? Who took your picture, or did you set the camera up on a timer?


6,573 posted on 08/28/2004 9:15:13 PM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)
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To: Professional Engineer

Oh heavens, she's so CUTE! She's not so 'bitty' anymore!


6,574 posted on 08/28/2004 9:19:32 PM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)
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To: My back yard
Like Matlock meets Cochise or something.

LOL! I really like the story I listened to. I'll have to see if they have anymore on cassette or CD for when I drive Clare up to camp in VT.

6,575 posted on 08/28/2004 9:21:51 PM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)
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To: RosieCotton

Writing to MBY reminded me to tell you about coming up to VT again. Clare will be going to homeschool camp at Hulbert again. I can drive her up on 10/17, so maybe we can get together again for dessert or supper or something in Lebanon again! If we come up early enough, Clare will be with me, and I can take her to camp later.


6,576 posted on 08/28/2004 9:23:49 PM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)
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To: JenB

CO is too danged COLD too much of the time!


6,577 posted on 08/28/2004 9:24:37 PM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)
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To: RosieCotton; Bear_in_RoseBear
I practically cried the first time I saw that episode. Poor little guy!

Me, too. It was truly depressing!

6,578 posted on 08/28/2004 9:26:52 PM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)
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To: SuziQ
Random tourists took pictures for me.

Yup! Get up above treeline - say, 11,500 feet, and it's cold enough for the snow to stick around. It was close to freezing, I think - the wind made my ears sore. There was one ridge I trekked to the top of that had a lot of snow - here's another pic.


6,579 posted on 08/28/2004 9:34:38 PM PDT by JenB
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To: HairOfTheDog
but also because she didn't ticket me for tabs that expired in ~MAY~.

Dang! She was nice! I got stopped in NJ once for expired license plates. I had never received the notice, and I just didn't think about it. I had both my older kids in the car, and they were 4 and 1 yrs. old at that time. I was in a parking lot at the time, and that trooper wouldn't even let me drive the car to our house which was less than mile away!! I even suggested he follow me to make sure I didn't go anywhere else!! Left me stranded with the two little kids at a shopping center! I was so angry I burst into tears when I called SSQ to come pick us up! It's a good thing he wasn't out of town on a trip or something! I'm STILL angry about it, 20 years later!! Law or no law, you don't need to treat people like that!!

I had to drive over an hour to pick our older son up just a couple of weeks ago because of the same thing!! His notice had been sent to his old address, and hadn't made it to our house with mail forwarding before the thing expired. And we hadn't noticed the sticker, either. We possibly could have done the re-registration FOR him because his car was HERE the whole time he was in France!! He was less lucky because they TOWED his car, and he not only had to pay the fine for the overdue registration, but he also had to pay a $50 tow fee!

6,580 posted on 08/28/2004 9:35:09 PM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)
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