The Hobbit Hole XVII - A new road or a secret gate...

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

A new road or a secret gate...

• 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.
      Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
• Twelfth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XII - Tree and flower and leaf and grass
• Thirteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XIII - Let them pass! Let them pass!
• Fourteenth thread: The Hobbit Hole XIV - Hill and Water Under Sky
• Fifteenth thread: The Hobbit Hole XV - Pass them by! Pass them by!
• Sixteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVI - Still round the corner there may wait...

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]

We were out diggin' a trench....

You expectin' to be invaded?

[HairOfTheDog]

~shakes head~

Not that kinda trench unless we ~really~ kept digging.

Nope - about a 30-foot long drainage ditch so water doesn't stand in the paddock any more, we were gettin' some mud and permanent standing water in one spot.... that drains into a low spot outside the fence now, and I think it will dry out now between rains.

[HairOfTheDog]

This trench:

[ExGeeEye]

So you're near enough to Lebanon to use that as a planning destination?

Good enough for me. I'll be likely driving, especially if I have lead-launchers with me.

[ExGeeEye]

Oooooo! You wetlands destroyer, you!

What if that was a rare, AIDS-curing mosquito species you just-- umm-- extinctified right there?

[Corin Stormhands]

You gonna gravel it or put in a pipe to keep it from washing out?

[RosieCotton]

What if that was a rare, AIDS-curing mosquito species you just-- umm-- extinctified right there?

Were you here for the tansy episode? Not really related, but somehow that reminded me of it...

[Corin Stormhands]

Were you here for the tansy episode?

Pullin' that tansy probably started the drainage problem to begin with.

[HairOfTheDog]

I think we'll just keep working to widen it and keep it scraped out and see how it goes... I picture a big foot-wide ditch working as well as anything. The horses are in there and will probably crap a dam in it from time to time, but we can run a shovel down it and sloosh it out. Until now, all the water from the driveway drained out there and had no where to go. On top of that, we had attempted to fill in the low area by the gate with spent shavings which just turned to deep suck-muck. There's a big lowland out in that shrubby area the trench leads to that fills with water anyhow. I think the muck will drain now and dry up. And I am gonna keep shoveling more of that muck by the gate out of there.

[HairOfTheDog]

[Corin Stormhands]

We've had a similar problem at the pool. Except with us the pool was leaking. One of the guys built a HUGH drain to dry out some of the land. For years the old guard said "it's an underground spring, it's groundwater."

Until the year of the drought, when I finally got fed up and screamed "There IS no GROUNDWATER!"

[RosieCotton]

AAAHHHHHHHHH!!! Run away! Run awayyyy!!!

[HairOfTheDog]

Anywhere horses travel back and forth in winter can turn to mud, the lucky part with us is that the soil really is pretty sandy and it dries out pretty quick when the rain stops. I didn't have bad mud in previous years - not till we filled by the gate and trapped and held all the water that comes from the driveway. That, in hindsight, was a big mistake.

But I always had that lake in winter.... and always thought it wouldn't be too hard to drain it, if only I had a man with a shovel ;~D

[Corin Stormhands]

if only I had a man with a shovel ;~D

You're a hopeless romantic.

[HairOfTheDog]

What really cracks me up about that visit from the county tansy cop is that the freeway and county road right of ways are just rampant with tansy.

I had noticed and was gonna go pull that plant.... next time I was out there.... ;~D

[Corin Stormhands]

She prolly thought you were feeding it...

Later. I'm outta here.

[g'nad]

So you're near enough to Lebanon to use that as a planning destination?

yup... I'll email out detailed maps tuh git yuh from town tuh the Ridge...

[RosieCotton]

And now I know what you're referring to, for better or for worse...

[RosieCotton]

I had noticed and was gonna go pull that plant.... next time I was out there.... ;~D

Yes, but who knows WHAT it would have done in the meantime?? I mean...look at it! It's plotting something, you can tell!

*shudder*

[RMDupree]

The eeeevil tansy of Doo-ooo-ooooom!

Evenin' everyone!