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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Evening OT; Did you convert the double board high bed to another single high one?
Cool!
Nice job with the sawzall and the t-post driver.
Channeling Buzz Martin...
Thanks, Hair. Is your chainsaw out of whack? Sawzalls are good to have, though. I think.
Evening Sam, glad to hear there's some improvement. Please convey our concern to Jeanne. OB & LSA
Thanks, OB!
The Silver Age Green Lantern? I guess then there must have been a golden age. And bronze age?
There are some great images on that site! I've got to rent that show I guess, if that can be done.
Great...my eyes are dilated, which *really* doesn't help that spectacle.
Ungh...I hate it when they dilate your eyes.
Back when I started collecting comics in the 70s and 80s, that was considered the "Modern Age", but now it's termed the "Bronze Age", running from the early 70s to the mid-80s. From the mid-80s to the present is now the "Modern Age".
Hmm, seeing as how most previous "Ages" lasted 15-20 years, I guess it's time for a new Age to start pretty soon...
Well...unless I go to somewhere that grinds the lenses there - Pearle Vision doesn't - I guess I'm outta luck on using the same frames. Considering I don't have a backup pair of glasses, maybe it's not a bad idea to get another complete pair, though.
But I balked at ordering 'em today. Especially since it'd be nice if I could get something very close to the same frames, and they didn't have anything that close. Dunno where else to go, though.
The doctor guy was even younger than I remembered. Enough so that I think he thought it was kinda cool that my eyes are sooooo different, prescription wise, which I guess means that the left one is considerably longer, back to front, than the right. Lucky me.
Cool! Is that the martial arts star, Bruce Lee? He must have been pretty young at the time.
Since I had a little time, I looked up the location of the funeral home and the church where services were to be held. No problem finding the funeral home but the church was not where it was supposed to be according to the map provided to me. I found it anyway though. It's hard to stump a former cub scout on things like that.
I attended the 6:00pm visitation and even remembered that I was in another time zone there. I met and talked with Mrs. N., I introduced myself and told her where I was from and then told her where I was from in computerland. Her face brightened when I said the words "Hobbit Hole" and so did the face of her mother standing next to her, it seems that PFC N. had also told his mother-in-law about the Hobbit Hole. I also mentioned knowng "300winmag" and she knew him too. (A little name dropping never hurts)
A young sgt. standing beside her said that he thought everybody in the army knew about the Hobbit Hole and the knives. I asked him if he had one but he said that he hadn't been to Iraq yet.
There was a one star General there that I talked with later and he too had heard of the Hobbit Hole and the knives, I asked him if he had one and he just said that he didn't. I cannot remember his name or maybe he could get one too.
I also asked him if it was customary for a General officer to attend these funerals and he said the army sends the highest ranking officer available and often it is a General and that he considered it an honor to attend them and further said that "the highest ranking military man here (at the funeral) was the young soldier lying in the coffin" He was an all around nice fellow and I wish I could remember his name.
The visitation I attended was the last of four visitations and it was packed. It was a closed coffin affair but there were tables containing albums of pictures of PFC N. and Mrs. N. I didn't want to take up very much of her time but I asked Mrs.N. to come over to that table with me and I pointed out a picture of her and PFC N. together and asked if I could borrow it to post at the Hobbit Hole. She was very pleased that I wanted to do that but asked if I was sure that I wanted that particular one, I asked her to pick out one that she liked instead and she chose the one I am posting here. (Probably thought the one I chose made her look fat - woman)
As you can see she is a very attractive young woman and they are just a beautiful couple. I have her mailing address and will send the original back to her right away.
I told you the 4th visitation was packed, well that was a hint at things to come, I think everyone in the county turned out for the funeral. I didn't get another chance to talk with Mrs.N., she was totally surrounded by family and friends at all times.
Like the General, I was honored to be able to attend and if ever another such occasion arises (let's hope not) I will be honored to attend that one too as long as it's within my reach.This one was about 380 miles but what else does an old retiree like me have better to do than to say good by to an American hero?
Rose in RoseBear;300winmag;HairOfTheDog, you know everybody here, maybe one of you could ping those interested to this post?
Noooo....not yet. But I thought about it. :)
The new bed would be 72.5 inches and I have 127 inches between the two beds that are already there. The lawnmower needs 22 inches.
Yeah, modern age is definitely over, I think. Antique dealers consider the modern age to have ended in the early 60's, I believe. Weirdly. Not sure what we're in now!
He didn't live very long, apparently dying at age 32.
Amazing and moving. Thanks for the report.
Oh, wow. Nice write-up.
[snif]
Rose and I were talking about it and decided a "change of age" could definitely be said to have happened recently, perhaps in the early 2000s. I don't know what that would make the period from 1985-2000. I suppose an argument could be made for calling it the "Dark Age", since the publication of "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns" in 1985 is counted as one of the starting points of that Age, and one of the hallmarks of the comics published during that time was the rise of "grim and gritty" characters and plots.
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