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The Hobbit Hole XIX - Tomorrow we may come this way...
The Freeper Hobbit Hole ^

Posted on 01/27/2005 9:59:05 AM PST by ecurbh

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Tomorrow we may come this way...

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!

See also: http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net

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To: Darksheare
Those are good wav files! I may steal borrow them...
1,701 posted on 02/06/2005 11:47:58 AM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear (Here at home we'll play in the city / Powered by the sun)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

;-)
Feel free.
I pirated them fair and square myself.

I also grabbed some others and have them at that webpage.
Like this one:
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/BMK175/Zimstuff/r79proces.wav


1,702 posted on 02/06/2005 12:00:23 PM PST by Darksheare ("Cast off your amazing human ruse and show them our mighty robot form!" - but I'm a ghost!)
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To: SuziQ
Gotta love that; Andy walking on the new leg CARRYING his crutches!

I always look at faces first, especially the eyes. Andy has that look of "I've got beter things to do than roam up and down this hallway, so I'm going to get this done as fast as I can."

2J, I reread those firsts posts. Only two months ago, and look how far he's come. Sorry to hear about his Gunny, but at least he went the way any Gunnery Sergeant would want to go.

Also in rereading those firsts posts, I didn't notice that Andy's father is a veteran. He's earned one of our new HH pocket knives. I have their home address, I just don't have his first name. Could you supply that?

1,703 posted on 02/06/2005 12:22:14 PM PST by 300winmag (FR's Hobbit Hole supports America's troops)
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To: 2Jedismom
Great blog! We're thinking of setting up a webpage for our house remodel. SSQ wants to set up a camera so we can get the picture from hole in the ground to housewarming! We did some of the 'hole in the ground' shots last summer when the boys were playing with Gimli, our big Tonka toy. I know I got some still shots of them braking that giant rock apart into large slabs.

He got a great idea from "Fine Homebuilding" magazine last month. A guy in Southborough, MA had built a geodesic dome structure over the area where he was adding a family room to a house. Got SSQ thinking that it would be great to have the work area completely covered. He could come home and work in the evenings, even for an hour or so without having to set up and take down the tools everytime; he could just leave them out. That would save him so much time. It would also make the job go faster because we wouldn't have to be delayed because of weather.

1,704 posted on 02/06/2005 1:37:03 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

braking = breaking!


1,705 posted on 02/06/2005 1:38:42 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

Hah, a home improvement blog would fit right in here...


1,706 posted on 02/06/2005 1:42:03 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB; SuziQ

My "home improvement" consisted of translating my worldly goods along all 3 spatial axes...


1,707 posted on 02/06/2005 1:51:03 PM PST by ExGeeEye (Belgium!)
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To: ExGeeEye

Let me see... wouldn't that rotate them out of our plane of existence? I seem to recall that's what happened to the planet of the Bug-Eyed Monsters in "Have Spacesuit Will Travel".


1,708 posted on 02/06/2005 1:52:41 PM PST by JenB
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To: RosieCotton; Overtaxed
I'll just keep that one room closed off, and try to fend off any Sackville-Bagginses...

Watch out for the Sackville-Clintonses...


1,709 posted on 02/06/2005 2:05:34 PM PST by Corin Stormhands (One Iraqi purple finger took more courage than John Kerry's three purple hearts.)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Heh...though in reality, except for a very few things, I WANT people to cart everything away.


1,710 posted on 02/06/2005 2:08:14 PM PST by RosieCotton (A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. - GK Chesterton)
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To: ecurbh

MUST we relive the wardrobe malfunction?


1,711 posted on 02/06/2005 2:14:22 PM PST by RosieCotton (A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. - GK Chesterton)
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To: JenB
Hmm...I remember that...the book is right here and stuff....

Let's say east-west is x, north-south is y, and altitude is z...

So my stuff moved x-2 miles, y-12 miles, and z+12 feet (all figures approximate), while remaining stationary relative to the percieved "present" on the t axis...

I'll have to reread HSWT again now...

1,712 posted on 02/06/2005 2:17:51 PM PST by ExGeeEye (Belgium!)
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To: RosieCotton

You know, one way to do it, after you've sold everything you want to sell, is just open up the place for a 'cart it away for free' day. Just make sure you've moved everything out that you want to keep, put a sign up that says "Moving, take what you want", then when it's done, load up for one last trip to the dump. Then all you'll have to do is clean and lock the doors!


1,713 posted on 02/06/2005 2:23:16 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

That sounds like a good idea, as does Hair's indoor garage sale.

The furniture is going to be toughest. I'd LIKE to get a little for it...but if I have to, I'll give stuff away in the end. I don't have much time!


1,714 posted on 02/06/2005 2:35:16 PM PST by RosieCotton (A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. - GK Chesterton)
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To: ExGeeEye

Having to reread a classic work like that is no hardship!


1,715 posted on 02/06/2005 2:41:52 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

I think we need to talk soon!

Margaret is all gung-ho about the idea of driving there and then to the wedding. Eek! That's awfully soon!


1,716 posted on 02/06/2005 2:47:50 PM PST by RosieCotton (A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. - GK Chesterton)
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To: JenB
Well, I have to find it.

It is, however, in the room.

1,717 posted on 02/06/2005 2:50:23 PM PST by ExGeeEye (Belgium!)
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To: JenB
Peewee was trembling and gasping and the Mother Thing comforted her. When Peewee had control of herself, I said nervously, "Mother Thing? What did he mean? ‘Their planet shall be rotated.’"

he looked at me without letting go of Peewee and her great soft eyes were sternly sad. ("It means that their planet is tilted ninety degrees out of the space-time of your senses and mine.")

Her voice sounded like a funeral dirge played softly on a flute. Yet the verdict did not seem tragic to me. I knew what she meant; her meaning was even clearer in Vegan than in English. If you rotate a plane figure about an axis in its plane – it disappears. It is no longer in a plane and Mr. A. Square of Flatland is permanently out of touch with it...

("You do not understand, dear gentle Kip -- they do not take their star with them.")

Good story :)

1,718 posted on 02/06/2005 3:03:48 PM PST by ExGeeEye (Belgium!)
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To: ExGeeEye
grr...She looked at me...
1,719 posted on 02/06/2005 3:04:57 PM PST by ExGeeEye (Belgium!)
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To: RosieCotton

Heh, well, if it'll be easier to work things out over the phone I'll call you some evening. Let me know...


1,720 posted on 02/06/2005 3:10:09 PM PST by JenB
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