The Hobbit Hole XXIV - Sand and Stone and Pool and Dell...

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Sand and Stone and Pool and Dell...

• 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...
• Nineteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XIX - Tomorrow we may come this way...
• Twentieth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XX - And take the hidden paths that run...
• Twenty-first Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXI - ...Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
• Twenty-second Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXII - ...Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe
• Twenty-third Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXIII - Let them go! Let them go!

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]

Yawn, so my tolerance is definitely less than two glasses of wine...

[Professional Engineer]

She's growin' up so fast. (and she's adorable too)

That hit me the other day when I saw her peering into the drawer in the bathroom. Durn, when did she get so tall.

[Corin Stormhands]

Flying is completely different.

[g'nad]

yer momma didn't raise no fool...

[JenB]

Heh, no, and I'll beat up the fool who says she did.

[Corin Stormhands]

I can handle more than two glasses of wine. But we had Mexican tonight. Margaret and Rita were there.

I ain't tipsy. But I'm going up to take out my contacts in a minute and just don't see the need to come back downstairs.

See y'all tomorrow.

[RosieCotton]

Durn, when did she get so tall.

Time for a rousing chorus of "Sunrise, Sunset"...

[Ramius]

Evenin' folks... I just flew in from San Francisco, and boy... are my arms tired... -rimshot-

Howdy all. [sip]

[JenB]

Night, man.

Mmm... margatira... er, mragriea... whatever. You get the point.

[RosieCotton]

G'nite, Corin! See ya 'round!

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I swear if I walked on that thing, you'd have to get the paramedics to bring me back.

All it requires is a leap of faith!

[Professional Engineer]

Not so little anymore is she. Has her own phones and everything. Hasn't tried to bum my car keys yet...she just swipes Msdrby's.

[SuziQ]

Oops, saw you've solved your problem. That sounds like a nice outfit. Classic, but not too dressy.

[RosieCotton]

Good evening!

~sip~

[HairOfTheDog]

Evenin' :~D

[SuziQ]

Oh, ain't you cute!!

[RosieCotton]

I hope so! The blouse is pretty loose...and of a kind that doesn't tuck in. Which I guess means less fussy. And I really do like the color! I tried to find one like it online so's I could show ya, but since it's on clearance, it wasn't on the website.

[g'nad]

It sounds like a good idea...

"Hey Dad, you know those tickets to that marriage seminar...well, I hope it's ok, but we gave them to a friend that couldn't really afford to go but wanted to...and since it's not something that we are in to, I asked her if she'd like our tickets. She is so excited about it."

You come off compassionate and thankful at the same time.

Mrsnad

[HairOfTheDog]

I feel a lot better about giving it away than just wasting it, if they really won't refund.

[Ramius]

Flying is different because airplanes have floors under them, and the windows are too small to get the sensation of falling out of them.

I have a certain yet controllable acrophobic reaction to heights. I write it off as a sincere respect for gravity and all it implies. But I have a very difficult time getting close to edges of cliffs or peering over really long drops.

One of the hardest things I ever did was that bungee jumping thing some years ago off a bridge up in the mountains. Eric, my bud that I went with... was also into skydiving... which I'm not. He said that the bungee jump was magnitudes more terrifying than skydiving. When you're skydiving the ground is a long, long, long way away. When you're bungee jumping the rocks that you're going to bash your head against are RIGHT THERE and you can SEE THEM.

Its funny, but while the bungee jump was terrifying beforehand, once my toes finally left the bridge and I started falling... the sensation of fear *completely* disappeared. It's like there's a mechanism in the brain that clicked on a said "Well... nothing we can do about this now... may as well enjoy the ride... " :-)