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Posted on 08/24/2005 9:50:25 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
New verse:
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Still round the corner there may wait |
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Home is behind, the world ahead, |
One of these days the badgers are going to rise up and throw off their oppressors!
Come see the violence inherent in the system!
You saw it, didn't you?
Saw Holy Grail? A multiplicity of times.
Actually I saw you repressing a badger...
Actually I saw you repressing a badger...
They've outlawed leaf-burning in most large Michigan cities. But one year, visiting relatives in Chesaning (pop. 5000), I drove through while some folks were burning leaves. I was flooded with memories of that aroma back when I was a kid, and the government kindly let us burn leaves.
Around here, fall color is always "iffy". You need the right weather, sunny skies, no rain, and a weekend. Most of the best fall color around here is wasted on weekdays.
One particularly fine day found me driving down a one-lane country dirt road, with nothing but oaks and maples everywhere. The sky was a brilliant blue, and the canopy was flourescent red and yellow. Going up a small hill, there was nothing on the road ahead of me except bright blue sky.
I don't have a picture of it, but it's stored securely in my heart.
Very well...carry on.
But you've been warned.
Only if it weighs as much as a duck.
Well if you weigh it against a big fat duck...
Hehehe....we reserve the right to be silly!
Well, we did our "Christmas Cards for the Troops" event...I planned and organized the whole thing and it went perfectly.
We had it at a friend of mine's church...her husband is the pastor and we had it in her fellowship hall. Everyone brought snacks and drinks.
The Marine that I had come in and speak (a homeschooling dad) was wonderful...he's why we had to do the Christmas cards now...he deploys in a week or so. He spoke on just the right levels, to little kids and young people alike.
The kids asked some great questions...Matthew asked how much an M-16 cost. Some other kid asked if his sword was sharp. He said it wasn't and Joshua asked "How do you kill people with a dull sword?"
Then we all went to work on our cards...my table is covered with drying cards!
I thought I'd need a unit to send them to, Rick, but it looks like the Marine unit this guy belongs to is the one I'll be sending them to. They are a Marine reserve unit here in Broken Arrow.
When it was all over, the adults and the young people cleaned everything up in no time. It really went off without a hitch.
I'm so proud I got to finally do it again...you know they wouldn't let me after I messed it up so bad that time...told me I couldn't do it any more and it was just dropped. Such an important thing, imo...it shouldn't have been dropped especially during this time. They should have let me have another chance.
It took the group splitting and us ridding ourselves of those arrogant leaders for me to finally get to organize it again.
I was going to put that in the keywords, but *somebody* beat me to it :)
*whistles innocently*
How many Hobbit Hole pocket knives do they need?
Note to entire Hobbit Hole:
I just got on another 25 Camillus BK2s, and did some counting. 75 are promised, to date. Aside from the small problem of paying for them, we seem to have more requests coming in than knives going out.
Part of that problem is the engraving. It takes almost two weeks for me to unpack the knives, take the handles off, take the blades in, bring them back, and put everything back together. THEN individual knives are packed, and mailed out.
While I hate doing it, leaving the Camillus BK2s unengraved until the backlog is gone will cut off about two weeks on turnaround time. Requests for a BK2 are taking over a month, and this will cut things down considerably.
Comments? Suggestions?
The engraving is your call.
My comment is more of a plea. Please everyone who hangs here and calls the hobbit hole home, Please Please help winmag out and send $$$ now, regularly and often! We know Rick is too much of a softy to say NO to any soldier... lets not abuse his good nature. Lets just say this has cost thousands more than he has yet received in help from us. ecurbh and I send donations every month, I hope you all will consider doing the same, whatever you can spare.
841 knives have been sent to date. Think about that.
Please support our Hobbit Hole Pocket knives for the troops project.
FR thread here: Help us support our troops!
Thank you!
How many Hobbit Hole pocket knives do they need?
If I may, if this is a BA CHEF group activity, might the members of BA CHEF contribute to buy knives to be sent with the Christmas cards?
When we've recieved requests for a whole unit's worth of knives lately, we've been asking those wives and point-people that are asking to please organize a fundraiser to pay for it. Especially because the most requested knives now are not the little $20 pocketknives.. they are the fancier sheath knives, for which winmag will have to give our current cost.... I don't know off hand.
*nods respectfully*
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