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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: 2Jedismom; RosieCotton; JenB

~smiles~

Ho ho ho!

The train is going to get a whole snowscape, but we didn't have time today ;~\


7,161 posted on 12/12/2004 7:15:29 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: JenB

They have a tree up, in any case. We've never really done the outside lights deal. We did last year just a little...but they're so far off in the woods that only we see them and the kids at home aren't really that enthusiastic about putting 'em up.


7,162 posted on 12/12/2004 7:16:14 PM 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

We don't put up much here either, but we do have our lighted houseplant in the window.

The way I figure it... the more lights you put on a trailer house, the worse it looks ;~D


7,163 posted on 12/12/2004 7:17:12 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: RosieCotton

My family's the same way. We have a lighted wreath that gets hung on the side of the house each year - it's about six feet high but that's it. Our house is too tall to put lights on, anyway, Dad would kill himself.


7,164 posted on 12/12/2004 7:17:31 PM PST by JenB (I will not turn into a snake. It doesn't help.)
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To: JenB
(Now I have the passage "Behold the Lamb of God" from Messiah in my head...there are wrse earworms...)

Sounds like a very un-wierd album to want to hear at this festive season of the year. Do your friends prefer "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer"?

Or is it that "Silent Night", "Away in a Manger", and "Hark the Harold Angel Thing"* cover it as far as Jesus is concerned, and it's time for Rudolph?

As far as I'm concerned, the best Christmas music is Christ-centered, and I enjoy "Sleigh Ride" and "Winter Wonderland" as bonus material.

*A child of my cquaintance believed this to be the correct title, and believed it referred to a particular tree ornament. OTOH, as a child I thought the part in Messiah "All We Like Sheep" referred to the choir's appreciation for woolly animals.

7,165 posted on 12/12/2004 7:18:45 PM PST by ExGeeEye (Large coffee, please. Black.)
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To: ExGeeEye

One of them I believe prefers hip-hop versions of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". She has laughed at me because I've admitted I'm too white for her music.

My other friend likes secular Christmas music; "Carols belong in church". I just don't get it. It's weird, I guess Christianity's always been such a normal part of my life, I'm kind of freaked out by casual Christians.

(I'm sure that passage of "Messiah" is where this album's title is from. It's a very, very good album by Andrew Peterson. Has a nice rendition of "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks", and a whole bunch of original songs)


7,166 posted on 12/12/2004 7:22:04 PM PST by JenB (I will not turn into a snake. It doesn't help.)
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To: 2Jedismom

Almost forgot, there's a cool fishing thread here, if you didn't catch it already, 2J.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1300013/posts

Good night All, again.


7,167 posted on 12/12/2004 7:22:12 PM PST by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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7,168 posted on 12/12/2004 7:23:25 PM PST by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: JenB
...I'm sure that passage of "Messiah" is where this album's title is from...

Or from Handel's source document :)

7,169 posted on 12/12/2004 7:23:31 PM PST by ExGeeEye (Large coffee, please. Black.)
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To: ExGeeEye

My family has our own personal version of the second verse of "Angels We Have Heard on High". It begins with "Shepherd's Wife" rather than "Shepherds, why?" and is of course the result of a child mis-hearing things.

Oh, yeah, and we all really like "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer", because our grandmother is the Christmas party-pooper. She doesn't like our family's decision not to "do" Santa Claus, and she's a killjoy anyway.


7,170 posted on 12/12/2004 7:23:38 PM PST by JenB (I will not turn into a snake. It doesn't help.)
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To: Sam Cree

I saw your ping over there.... that's one heck of a fish!


7,171 posted on 12/12/2004 7:24:05 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: ExGeeEye

Duh.... what's what? Oh, you mean that Bible thing people read at church on Christmas Eve and Easter Morning?


7,172 posted on 12/12/2004 7:24:14 PM PST by JenB (I will not turn into a snake. It doesn't help.)
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To: Ramius; 2Jedismom

Look at the evil eye on that shark. Made for seeing in the dark.


7,173 posted on 12/12/2004 7:25:22 PM PST by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Those things are good eating, at least.

I love trains, Hair, good pic, brings back memories.


7,174 posted on 12/12/2004 7:26:48 PM PST by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: JenB

Yes...be careful, though. It has a high level of Jesus content...even in the parts you don't expect...


7,175 posted on 12/12/2004 7:32:37 PM PST by ExGeeEye (Large coffee, please. Black.)
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Good night, all!


7,176 posted on 12/12/2004 7:34:22 PM 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
"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" I recently heard has been reported as being more disliked any more, mostly due to overplay.

I suppose if someone played "The Holly and the Ivy" at me 34 times a day I'd get a tad weary of it...

7,177 posted on 12/12/2004 7:35:11 PM PST by ExGeeEye (Large coffee, please. Black.)
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To: RosieCotton; JenB
I must away ere break of day to earn some more but not in gold...

Good night.

7,178 posted on 12/12/2004 7:38:11 PM PST by ExGeeEye (Large coffee, please. Black.)
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To: osagebowman
Morning Corin, saw a Griswold House contender last night.

That might be a bit much, even for Castle Stormhands.

However, the next-door-neighbor has gotten "into the spirit." I've got work to do...

7,179 posted on 12/12/2004 7:42:02 PM PST by Corin Stormhands (CHRISTmas: One season. One reason.)
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To: Sam Cree

Awesome thread! Love the pictures of the barracuda!


7,180 posted on 12/12/2004 7:43:23 PM PST by 2Jedismom (Full speed ahead, and damn the torpedoes!)
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