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The Hobbit Hole XVII - A new road or a secret gate...
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Posted on 11/03/2004 6:16:42 PM PST by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

A new road or a secret gate...

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: RMDupree; SuziQ; g'nad; Overtaxed

mmmm! Donut!

Well, I just ground up the second to the last batch of habeneros. Honestly, and I'm not kiddin' one bit...one almost needs to wear a hazmat suit to deal with this stuff. I opened the top of the grinder and got hit with the airborne powder in the back of my throat and couldn't hardly breathe for a couple of minutes there.

It's gonna taste GREAT on breakfast tacos!!


1,841 posted on 11/15/2004 8:35:31 AM PST by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: 2Jedismom

Hmmm... on the one hand, you need a hazmat suit... on the other hand, you're eating it for breakfast... mixed messages here...


1,842 posted on 11/15/2004 8:43:05 AM PST by JenB
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To: 2Jedismom
got hit with the airborne powder in the back of my throat and couldn't hardly breathe for a couple of minutes there.

I'll never understand why this would be considered a ~good~ thing to ingest!

1,843 posted on 11/15/2004 8:44:10 AM PST by RMDupree (HHD: My heart remains in Washington, volcano or no volcano....)
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To: RMDupree; JenB

Well, eating it is one thing, breathing it, having it hit you in the eye, or accidently rubbing your nose with it on your hands is another thing completely.

I'm gonna try a half a teaspoon of it in OT's hotwing sauce soon...


1,844 posted on 11/15/2004 8:52:41 AM PST by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: 2Jedismom

And I thought my little "sriachi makes everything better" was weird.


1,845 posted on 11/15/2004 8:54:37 AM PST by JenB
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To: 2Jedismom

On our first date, PE and I both had habaneros on our plate. I didn't know it was gonna be that hot and ate it whole. PE ate his just cuz I had one. We thought we were dying, LOL!


1,846 posted on 11/15/2004 8:55:11 AM PST by msdrby (remind me to drink more water... and less coffee)
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To: 2Jedismom

could it be a fuse?


1,847 posted on 11/15/2004 8:57:03 AM PST by msdrby (remind me to drink more water... and less coffee)
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To: msdrby; JenB

The really weird thing is, I started off just literally eating a few grains of the dehydrated powder on my food...couldn't tolerate more than a very sparse sprinkle.

Now, I can eat a pretty good dash of the stuff! You really do build up a tolerance!

But wafting into your lungs isn't appropriate. LOL


1,848 posted on 11/15/2004 8:59:50 AM PST by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: msdrby

Hmm...could be, I guess! It might be the transmission and a fuse.

Steve hasn't even looked at it yet...he took us to the birthday party on Sat. morning and a friend brought us home so he could go straight to a study group. Then after his study group that evening, we went to a Coburn victory party. Then on Sunday, he fixed the truck and went to the library to study. Then we went to church when he got home.

He's in his last weeks of school...I doubt I'll see him again except in passing for the rest of this semester! :-)


1,849 posted on 11/15/2004 9:03:23 AM PST by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: 2Jedismom

But at least you have more internet time...


1,850 posted on 11/15/2004 9:07:50 AM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

LOL This is true!

Oh Jen, you should hear what I'm hearing! Joshua is reading! The curriculum is taped off the satellite, you know...and I am sitting here watching and listening to him sounding out the words and reading them aloud.

I told him just now "Wow, Joshua! You're doing GREAT!" and he replied "I love to read!"

What an absolute thrill.


1,851 posted on 11/15/2004 9:12:48 AM PST by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: 2Jedismom

Now that is good to hear! Phonics make all the difference, as far as I can tell. Reason number 523,633 why no kid of mine will see a goverment school... unless I'm dead first...


1,852 posted on 11/15/2004 9:14:01 AM PST by JenB
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To: 2Jedismom
*snif*

And when we first started hangin' out here, he was just a baby!

I want kids!

1,853 posted on 11/15/2004 9:14:45 AM PST 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

Sigh... let's not fret over this one again... you'll get me down too...


1,854 posted on 11/15/2004 9:19:13 AM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

I gotta lotta years on you.

Ugh...writing this story is getting me down, though, because I'm giving her things I ain't got...but she's almost me. Frustrating.

In other news...I may try to look for another job around here sometime in the near future. I'm still not really making it, and I certainly can't move anywhere because I don't have enough to even cover gas for a trip. So...prayers on that, I guess.


1,855 posted on 11/15/2004 9:24:16 AM PST 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

Oh, dear... yes, sounds like that needs prayers. What else is in the area?

If you can get money for the trip, somehow, you can always crash with me as long as you need to. Unfortunately pets aren't allowed :-(


1,856 posted on 11/15/2004 9:26:33 AM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

Considering I didn't have much luck when I was looking last time, I'm not really sure what's going to happen. I may just start keeping an eye out and hope for the best. But I don't like changes, which is why it takes more than a nudge to get *me* out the door to anything new.

I may look a little outside the area - northern NH - and assume that I'd have a longgggg commute until I could find a place and sell the house. But even that would make it tricky to have the dogs.

That's the main problem - the dogs. I can almost certainly find a place where I could have cats, but not too dogs. And honestly, they shouldn't be alone even as much as they are. But I also feel like it would be a horrible, horrible failure on my part if I let them go.

I'm just racked over all this. It's been a tough week, 'cause I'm working all this over in my mind.


1,857 posted on 11/15/2004 9:30:50 AM PST 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: JenB

And the other thing is, there's no way I'm gonna make Shootmoot, unfortunately, unless I *do* find something else, and quickly. Right now, I'm not sure how I'm going to get to Ben's wedding, and wishing I hadn't said I would be a bridesmaid just in case that doesn't happen.

</whine>


1,858 posted on 11/15/2004 9:31:58 AM PST 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; JenB

It's so exciting! And he's only doing kindergarten! He starts first grade next year!

I really love this curriculum...we've done SO much better using this. We're already a third of the way through school! Just made my life (and the kids too) so much easier...

Matthew just finished his math assignment, sitting here with me in the kitchen, while I got a batch of bread baking in the machine!


1,859 posted on 11/15/2004 9:33:26 AM PST by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: RosieCotton

Oh... dear... well, that certainly sounds worthy of prayer...

And we'll figure out a way to get you to ShootMoot if - if we have to make Suzi drive you out there!


1,860 posted on 11/15/2004 9:34:21 AM PST by JenB
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