The Hobbit Hole XXVI - Home is behind, the world ahead

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Home is behind, the world ahead

• 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!
• Twenty-Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXIV - Sand and Stone and Pool and Dell...
• Twenty-Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXV - Fare you well! Fare you well!

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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[RMDupree]

He was more gnome-ish than dwarvish...

One of those "distant" relatives you studiously avoid mentioning, by chance?

[Ramius]

Ack... gotta wait three more hours. It's gonna drive me nuts.

[RMDupree]

(((Bear)))

Vitamin C + hot toddy + rest.

Hope it's a passing thing, Bear.

[RMDupree]

Sorry, hon. That dratted time zone thing.

Although, I wish I had another 3 hours before it started. Alyson isn't home yet and I have the absolute certainty that the doorbell will ring the moment 24 starts.

Got the VCR ready and tested to tape, just in case.

[SuziQ]

We're DVRing it, so we won't start watching until about 8:45 so we can just speed through the commercials. ;o)

[Ramius]

heh...

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Thanks... woke up with a cough this morning, and it's gotten progressively worse as the day went on, so I'm thinking it's a cold. I take vitamin C every morning anyway, and I'm sucking on Cold-Eeze lozenges steadily.

Rose has got a touch of it too... she's been sleeping off and on all afternoon.

[RMDupree]

~sigh~ Just got off the phone. She'll be here in 10 minutes.

The Bears game is still on though. No Jack yet.

Looks like it'll be starting late here as well.

[RMDupree]

Nyquil, baby. Cures whatever ails ya! ;-)

Or at least it does for me. Almost every time.

Weird.

[Ramius]

Maybe they'll just join 24 in progress... and miss the first ten minutes...

[RMDupree]

*glares*

[RosieCotton]

Cold-eeze usually zaps stuff for me. I *hate* the taste, but it's better than a long, dragging cold.

[Ramius]

:-)

[SuziQ]

We loved the movie, and the soundtrack is great! Paul got it for me for Christmas. We're gonna try to catch it at the theater where you can buy supper.

[SuziQ]

We borrowed your "warm" weather it seems. ;-)

WAAHHH! I want it baaaccck!

[RMDupree]

In a few days...

[RMDupree]

24 is starting here...

No doorbell yet.

[SuziQ]

Our David says that Austin is the absolute worst place he's ever lived as far as allergens are concerned!

[RMDupree]

A car just pulled into the driveway. ~sigh~

I hate being right.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Oh yeah, Austin is bad for allergies. When I woke up this morning, I thought I might have had a little reaction to the trip to Fredericksburg yesterday... lot of dust and cedar trees out that way!

But then it started getting worse instead of better, so now I think it's a cold.