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

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[ecurbh]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Tomorrow we may come this way...

• 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...
• Seventeenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVII - A new road or a secret gate...
• Eighteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVIII - Though we pass them by today...

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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[JenB]

Bah, ignore the clueless ones.

I'm working on getting some pictures! Some of 'em I might post to the thread, the generic ones, but I'll collect a few of the neighborhood and email those to you...

[RosieCotton]

Wonderful! That'll make it a bit more real. ;-)

[JenB]

It won't be really-real until you get out here, I know, but we can sure work at it...

I wonder if it's possible to get to the roof of this building - it's one of the tallest around, six stories. That would be an interesting view.

[RosieCotton]

Eek! Don't kill yourself trying to take pictures!

[JenB]

No, I know there's a stair that lets onto the roof, what I don't know is if it's "authorized personnel only". And don't worry, I like heights but avoid edges.

[SuziQ]

Yeah, did you see Hair's self-portrait?

[Corin Stormhands]

Heh...I'll be posting mine tonite.

[HairOfTheDog]

Heh... I was just bein' brazen...

ecurbh wondered what I'd do all day here by myself while he's at work. We've been together nearly 24/7 since his arrival here, with just short exceptions.

I said "I'll probably just walk around naked"
He said "Gasp... you never do that when I'm here"
I said "Exactly!"

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

He said "Gasp... you never do that when I'm here"

Eh, newlyweds...

[Corin Stormhands]

Speaking of things you don't do when other people are around, wife just told me Nana practically walked in on her in the bathroom just to say "cheese makes me constipated."

~sigh~

We got four more weeks before the surgery...

[JenB]

I feel your pain...

I am so glad my parents are young. By the time they get aged and decrepit, my sibs and I should have grown children we can make do half the work ;-)

[SuziQ]

wife just told me Nana practically walked in on her in the bathroom just to say "cheese makes me constipated."

I'm tellin ya, the older they get, the younger they get; act just like kids did when they were toddlers!

[Corin Stormhands]

I'm tellin ya, the older they get, the younger they get...

We've started telling people we have five children: Jr., Luke, Nana, Sam and Abby.

But you're right, it's like having another child to care for.

[RosieCotton]

I know I'd likely be singing a different tune if I didn't know now what I didn't know then, so to speak...but I wish my mother had had a chance to GET aged and decrepit.

It never occured to me until a month before she died that she wouldn't be around until she was in her eighties or nineties, like the rest of the wimmin in her family.

[JenB]

Oh, don't get me wrong - I would rather look after my parents myself until they're 102 than suffer like you have. All I meant to get at was by the time they need help, most of us should be not just self-sufficient but at a point where we can really care for them. It's not so easy to take care of an old person and a toddler at the same time, as Corin has illustrated for us.

Now, my grandmother, her we're going to put in a nursing home...

[JenB]

Right, plus by the time they're in their nineties I'll be in my seventies... eep, good thing that's a long time off.

[HairOfTheDog]

[HairOfTheDog]

Yep.

[Corin Stormhands]

I understand Rosie. I'm just two and a half years younger than my dad was when he died. I feel cheated out of a lot of time with him.

Still, it's hard (in a different way) to watch them get old.

Nana doesn't ~want~ to be a burden. And I'm guessing she really doesn't see how much she ~is~ a burden. Her problem these days is that she's mostly stuck in her room and we're the only people she sees.

[JenB]

I don't suppose teaching her about message boards and finding one (OldLadiesWithWeirdProblems.com?) for her to spend time on, during the day, would help? She might just be too old for that...