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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: Lil'freeper; ExGeeEye; RosieCotton; JenB; Overtaxed; 2Jedismom; HairOfTheDog
IT'S FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!


8,121 posted on 12/17/2004 4:21:23 AM PST by Corin Stormhands (CHRISTmas: One season. One reason.)
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To: Lil'freeper; ExGeeEye; JenB; Alkhin; Corin Stormhands; Overtaxed; 2Jedismom; HairOfTheDog; ...

Good morning! Dittos on the Friday rejoicing! And it's only a week until Christmas Eve! Not sure if that's good or bad...heh...still have plenty to do before then!


8,122 posted on 12/17/2004 5:15:35 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: Corin Stormhands; Overtaxed; SuziQ; g'nad

Amen -

Christmas potluck at work today, LSA baked a Mississippi Mud cake. Superb. Just four days next week. We're getting Friday aka Christmas Eve off.

Enjoyed the first disc of ROTK-EE last night. Second disc tonight. I can see it will need 'several' viewings. I'm impressed so far.


8,123 posted on 12/17/2004 5:19:52 AM PST by osagebowman
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To: ExGeeEye
You have my PhotoShop...

I probably SHOULD have waited until I coulda bugged you or another of the gurus. Actually, there's no probably to it...

See, what I was working on is...I found a place that will print a paperback book for you if you upload a Word document, and for fairly cheap - about ten dollars plus shipping, and it should be here so I can wrap it for my little sister for Christmas!

They also allow you to create a cover, but I could NOT get the picture right. If I wasn't such an obsessive freak ;-) I woulda waited until someone could have helped me with it, but as it is, I finally gave up on it and submitted it as is at a bit after one this morning. Did I mention I'm an obsessive freak?

Looking at it this morning, it's not QUITE as bad as I remembered, but still awfully ugly. However, my sister will just be thrilled to have it as a "real" book, so I suppose that's OK...however, if I decide to do anything similar in the future, it would behoove me to be a wee bit more patient, and to never make decisions after ten at night!

8,124 posted on 12/17/2004 5:20:18 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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Ungggh...when you stay up until one thirty and wake up at six, coffee is a vey precious commodity.

~sip~
8,125 posted on 12/17/2004 5:21:31 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

Oooh... do share the details on that publishing house!


8,126 posted on 12/17/2004 5:30:23 AM PST by Lil'freeper (Error 404. The page you requested was not found.)
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To: Lil'freeper

http://www.lulu.com

They just do paperbacks, and I can't tell ya what the quality is like (binding and all) until I get the book...but for a quick and dirty publishing job, looks like it'll work well!

Looks like it's primarily a self-publishing site for folks that are selling their work directly, but you can do simple projects as well.

I almost hesitated to do this since I still have soooooo much editing work to do, really...but for ten dollars I can handle it. After January I'll really go to town hacking the story apart and pulling out unnecessary parts, painful as that may be. Heh...I guess the version Teresa is getting is the Extended Edition?


8,127 posted on 12/17/2004 5:35:14 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; All

Yah friday, boo test. I will be much more upbeat later in the day :P


8,128 posted on 12/17/2004 5:42:19 AM PST by TalonDJ
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To: TalonDJ

What time is your test? We can add it to the TPL! ;-)


8,129 posted on 12/17/2004 5:43:46 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

Good morning! Guess what?? Matthew got up after supper and completed the rest of this week's schooling! He has the day off! Then we have TWO WEEKS of no school!

We still have to do joshua's school, but we should be done by mid-morning! Christmas break!! Yeah! Yeah!!!


8,130 posted on 12/17/2004 5:47:00 AM PST by 2Jedismom (HHD)
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To: RosieCotton
I'm thinking that'll be a good solution for the family cookbook I'm working on. Can you include photos in the text? Line drawings?

Maybe I should just go to the website and find out, huh? :P

8,131 posted on 12/17/2004 5:47:02 AM PST by Lil'freeper (Error 404. The page you requested was not found.)
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To: RosieCotton

In an hour and 10 minutes. Thanks.


8,132 posted on 12/17/2004 5:51:11 AM PST by TalonDJ
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To: Lil'freeper

As long as the photos and drawings are embedded in the word document you upload, they can go in. It's a bit pricier for color printing, though, so there's that to consider.

And they'll do either perfect binding (the regular paperback style) or the kinda binding they usually have on cookbooks...that plastic thingie. Dunno the right term for it.

The downside is that it's pretty much straight WYSIWYG - so any mistakes you make in formatting (and I'm sure there will be a few in mine) come through in the final output. I don't think they even look at it.

I'm now remembering all the stuff I didn't do. Like adding a page with the table of contents. And a blank page between the cover and the dedication and the dedication and the actual text would have probably looked better. *sigh*

But it's a first edition! It's collectible BECAUSE it's flawed, right? Heh...


8,133 posted on 12/17/2004 5:54:25 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: TalonDJ

You got it!


8,134 posted on 12/17/2004 5:54:59 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

I just saw on weather.com that they're forecasting SNOW for Christmas Day! A couple of years ago, when we had that big snow on Christmas, it was so much fun! We were settled in for the day because we always go to Midnight Mass, then the party afterwards. We don't get up until about 9 or 10, open presents, then I don't start dinner til around 1 or 2. It makes for a very relaxing Christmas. I just turn on "The Messiah" and do my Christmas dinner thing!


8,135 posted on 12/17/2004 6:31:02 AM PST by SuziQ (W: STILL the President)
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To: osagebowman
LSA baked a Mississippi Mud cake. Superb.

YUMmmmm.

8,136 posted on 12/17/2004 6:31:59 AM PST by SuziQ (W: STILL the President)
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To: RosieCotton

Sweeeet. Thanks for the heads-up. It's very exciting.


8,137 posted on 12/17/2004 6:33:01 AM PST by Lil'freeper (Error 404. The page you requested was not found.)
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To: SuziQ
As soon as all the Hobbit Hole travelers are home...let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

We'll probably open presents on Christmas Eve - we almost always do. Go to Mass, come home, open presents and eat. Then the actual Christmas Day is a bit quieter...we mostly hang out and talk and play games and, of course, eat more.

Our church isn't doing a Midnight Mass this year - only one at nine in the evening, with a hymn singalong before hand. Should be nice.

8,138 posted on 12/17/2004 6:33:52 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
or the kinda binding they usually have on cookbooks...that plastic thingie. Dunno the right term for it.

Comb-binding.... I had a love-hate relationship with the comb-binding machine where I used to work.

8,139 posted on 12/17/2004 6:37:18 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: 2Jedismom
we should be done by mid-morning! Christmas break!! Yeah! Yeah!!!

Sounds like you'll have plenty of time to make some cookies! ;o)

I'm fixin to make a HUGH batch of Chocolate Chip cookies. The school is providing refreshments for a Christmas party for Friendly House, a local social service organization, and the Parish Baking List was called. Then, of course, I have to have some for our family, too!

I found some sugar free 'starlight' mints, so I'm going to make some sugar free peppermint bark. I've got sugar free dark chocolate for the bottom layer, and sugar free vanilla for the top layer and I'll mix crushed peppermints into it. Gonna be good!

8,140 posted on 12/17/2004 6:37:24 AM PST by SuziQ (W: STILL the President)
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