The Hobbit Hole XXVIII - Through shadows to the edge of night

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Through shadows to the edge of night

• 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!
• Twenty-Sixth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXVI - Home is behind, the world ahead
• Twenty-Seventh Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXVII - And there are many paths to tread

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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[HairOfTheDog]

Most landlords don't like pets in the house, though, around here anyway.

Most, but I've never had trouble finding places that would. And the duplex I was in, he had said no pets, but I negotiated them in... I had them with me when I looked at the place. He saw a clean vehicle with well cared for dogs that didn't smell bad... he came around.

[RMDupree]

I know what you mean, Jen. We didn't even take many pictures when I went up to WA last month! And Hair is the Picture Queen!

We were all just ~really~ enjoying being complete sloths for a weekend. :-D

His plane lands just before 11pm EST. He'll be traveling all day, poor guy. We just live SO far apart it takes forever even by plane.

[Corin Stormhands]

[JenB]

No kidding :-( Well, that's why you're moving!

All I can say is that I am very, very grateful for cell phones, email, internet, and other such modern conveniences that make a long-distance relationship moderately torturous instead of impossible.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

heh, they are remarkably similiar, aren't they?

[RMDupree]

All I can say is that I am very, very grateful for cell phones, email, internet, and other such modern conveniences that make a long-distance relationship moderately torturous instead of impossible.

Amen to that!

[RMDupree]

Just lookit him with his wee little boots!

[HairOfTheDog]

Is the hole digging something I could do on my own? Maybe I could get the materials this weekend and at least get started on putting in posts and all.

I hope so! I don't want to dig all the holes :~D

I'll teach ya everything I know about fence building. It'll be good for your arms :~D

I've got a post hole digger and I've got the driver to drive the metal T-posts.

We need to take a picture and draw in where you intend to put the fence to show and perhaps negotiate with the landlord if he's got opinions on it. I'll do that (take pictures) today if you want.

[RosieCotton]

Sure...pictures would be good.

I want to get this started ASAP!

[RosieCotton]

I'm thinking I'll go reallly skimpy on the land behind the store - hardly fence any of that. Mostly just do a line on the other side of the drive.

The less he has to complain about, the easier this will be.

[HairOfTheDog]

The more you fence in the more you have to mow, too. :~D

[RosieCotton]

That's very true too. ;-)

I just hope I can handle the fact that it's pretty rocky here. Gonna make hole digging and stake pounding-in a little hard.

But I'm motivated. That helps.

[HairOfTheDog]

Unless the ground there is radically different from here, it's really not rocky. There's bands, layers of that round glacial till, but it's not everywhere, and it's just a layer, IOW, not all the way down.

[TalonDJ]

heh... can't imagine how that could happen >;-D

[RosieCotton]

Oh, good...I was afraid there'd be TONS of those round rocks, to the point where it'd be all but impossible to space anything evenly.

Regarding the landlord...I'm thinking maybe I'll get some cash on the way home so when I do go to talk to him about this in the next few days, I can also pay him a kind of partial rent for the next little bit. He knows about the fridge and he knows I've done some clean-up work, I'm sure...but I want to show I'm gonna be a good tenant.

[RosieCotton]

If you're still there...can you call my phone real quick? It got moved out of the way last night when we were playing a game, and now I can't seem to locate it.

[TalonDJ]

Or you could just offer to use that cash to do improvements like the fence. He might go for that and then you get to enjoy the use of the money too. Still makes you a good tenant

[RosieCotton]

He doesn't really care for fences, I don't think.

The gardening type stuff will likely fall into the good tenant category, though.

[TalonDJ]

Are you keeping you receipts on everything you spend to improve the place? I would definitely recommend that.

[HairOfTheDog]

Are you gonna pay him rent for April? Does he know?

I just feel like he's probably wondering, because we had a deal, then he changed it. It'll feel more like you've got a real rental agreement when he cashes a check that says "rent" on it.

In hindsight, it's really good that he had that guy do all that cleanup, because it really was depressing. It took away your free rent, but that hurts less than doing all the work now that you have a job.