The Hobbit Hole XXXIV - But better than rain or rippling streams...

[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

• 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
• Twenty-Eighth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXVIII - Through shadows to the edge of night
• Twenty-Nineth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXIX - Until the stars are all alight
• Thirtieth thread: The Hobbit Hole XXX - Then world behind and home ahead...
• Thirty-First ThreadThe Hobbit Hole XXXI - Mawwage is what bwings us togethew today!
• Thirty-second thread: The Hobbit Hole XXXII - Sweet is the sound of falling rain
• Thirty-Third thread (Our coming-of-age thread): The Hobbit Hole XXXIII - And the brook that leaps from hill to plain...

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!

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[HairOfTheDog]

Morning!

We’re taking Homer in to the vet this morning. We need a different plan on his skin.

[JenB]

Are you supposed to refer to yourself as the better half?

[Corin Stormhands]

Ah, best to take him today. 'Cause if you took him tomorrow that's what you'd be doing all year.

Whatever happens on New Year's Day sets the pattern for the rest of the year.

< /New Year's Superstitions>

[Corin Stormhands]

Are you supposed to refer to yourself as the better half?

Maybe she weren't referrin' to herself.

I'm just sayin'...

[HairOfTheDog]

Dang... there’s a lot of people who spend New Year’s Day with a headache.

I’m thinking I’m going to do my best to stay up, and maybe be prepared for some fireworks. Hard to predict.

[2Jedismom]

Heh heh!

[Corin Stormhands]

I’m makin’ a resolution to buy Sam some Beano...or not let him to be in the same room.

We’re havin’ dinner with our wine tastin’ group tonite. Don’t know if we’ll last all evenin’ or not.

[Corin Stormhands]

You got pony drugs?

[Corin Stormhands]

Got black-eyed peas?

[HairOfTheDog]

The mild herbal stuff. Better than nothing. I may go ask all the neighbors today, talk over what their plans are, the ones that have been noisy in the past.

[Corin Stormhands]

mmmmm...herbal...oh wait, you meant for the ponies...

[HairOfTheDog]

I wish it was that good ;~) I suspect it isn’t.

[Corin Stormhands]

I’d bake brownies...just in case. ;-)

[osagebowman]

Well, you made it a LOT farther that I could have; glad to hear you are planning to finish (the Movie and the Cleaning). SIP.

[HairOfTheDog]

I’d have to try to find the ingredients somewhere... Maybe the fireworks neighbors... ;~)

Today’s lead story on our local news: “Today is the last day you can legally text-message behind the wheel”.

[Corin Stormhands]

Yeah, ‘cept now I’m going to have to have orcs competing with the sound of Luke’s Wii in the background.

[Corin Stormhands]

I’ll have Not Valerie call you. She’s good at comin’ up with recipes fer what’s in the house. Christmas day she realized she fergot to put coconut on the list she sent with me to thegrocerystore. So we had orange pound cake instead.

[RosieCotton]

Someone keeps asking for it (as 420) on Craigslist and having their posts removed.

I’m thinking perhaps they aren’t very bright.

[RosieCotton]

Meaning herbal ingredients, that is...

[HairOfTheDog]

It’s not the grocery ingredients I would have a hard time finding... ;~)