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

Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog

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!

See also: http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net

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To: osagebowman

Yeah, it sounds easy as long as you have a high enough step ladder to reach the ceiling. At least it’s the garage and not the dining room. And I have to get some of that Gardz stuff to do behind the washer.


2,001 posted on 09/01/2007 1:07:46 PM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed

heh, always a project to plan for and then accomplish.

Miss gypsy and annie tag teamed LSA with ‘starving wayside waif’ impressions. Now both are taking their post dinner naps.

I’ve been sharpening some scrapers and drawknives; hatchet is next. Two well seasoned osage splits await. ‘There is a bow in there somewhere’ we like to say.


2,002 posted on 09/01/2007 3:06:35 PM PDT by osagebowman
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To: HairOfTheDog

That’s a great outdoor aquarium setting. Do you think they could overwinter in the stock tank?

Hope Bay’s hoofs (hooves?) are healing up as planned.


2,003 posted on 09/01/2007 3:09:15 PM PDT by osagebowman
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To: osagebowman

I’ve just been vacuuming. Oh joy.


2,004 posted on 09/01/2007 3:45:37 PM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: no one in particular

Just went on a grand adventure to test the new bike luggage (panniers) that arrived in the package yesterday. I loaded ‘em with books and went to the library, then to work to pick up a week’s worth of laundry, then rode to the bike shop and got some gloves (it’s good to have more than one pair...allows for things like, say, washing...), the (free) new county bike map, and a very basic headlight just to help me be seen as the days get shorter. Then I came home.

This was the bike shop where I bought my mountain bike, and where I’ve never felt like I was taken seriously. Really felt good to come cruisin’ in there, knowing I’d come fifteen miles or so to get there, albeit by a bit of a roundabout route. And now I know it’s easy to get there by bike, if I ever get to the end of the day at work and discover I’ve had a slow tire leak or something and need a tube or some help.

Now to clean up a bit and have a nice cold Vernors...


2,005 posted on 09/01/2007 4:01:39 PM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: osagebowman
Well, looks like I’ll have a bit left over do to it again next spring.

Or you could put it in a pickup with some tools, and drive around to see somebody with a bad driveway and sell it ti them. If you are a little short you could add some old fuel oil. Used to have lots of folks offerring to sell us this 'help' when I was a kid.

2,006 posted on 09/01/2007 5:27:10 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (A person who does not want the best for America)
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To: osagebowman

Not sure... they could overwinter outside... question is I think the glass would break if it froze.

Bay’s feet are getting a LOT better.. he’s just about cured.


2,007 posted on 09/01/2007 6:03:58 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

LCS: Funny you should mention that. A week or 10 days ago, LSA was mowing the grass when a fella came by, as you described, saying that ‘they had some left over material from a job and did she want them to professionally seal our driveway’. LSA thanked them for stopping by but said I’d be doing it soon. She promptly forgot to tell me till I started doing the driveway yesterday morning.


2,008 posted on 09/01/2007 6:19:53 PM PDT by osagebowman
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To: HairOfTheDog

Glad to hear that Bay’s feet are on the mend. Good news indeed.


2,009 posted on 09/01/2007 6:20:46 PM PDT by osagebowman
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To: osagebowman

Yes, that ‘professional quality sealant’ often lasts as long as two weeks, and is usually not very toxic!


2,010 posted on 09/01/2007 6:36:56 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (A person who does not want the best for America)
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To: RosieCotton; 300winmag; osagebowman; Corin Stormhands; 2Jedismom; Lil'freeper
Has g’nad started his new job yet? If so, how’s that goin’ for him?

crazy busy...but going well... alot more time on the keyboard than I'd like...

the boss is a strong Christian... said grace befor lunch, and opened thestaffmeeting with a prayer... gruff, abrasive... I like him...

2,011 posted on 09/01/2007 6:51:20 PM PDT by g'nad
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To: osagebowman; Overtaxed

did a controlled burn tuhday... about 6 acres on the East border... woulduh been the brushy hillside to your left as you walked from the house to therange at ShootMoot...

hopefully kilt alotta brush and saplings... then may I can brush hawg it come winter...

oh yeah... and used a boomless sprayer on the pasture... PastureGuard... does a number on serecia...


2,012 posted on 09/01/2007 6:57:17 PM PDT by g'nad
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To: g'nad

Well, sounds like a busy work-life and homeplace-life for you all down on ‘theridge’. I recall that hill. Those boomless sprayers are pretty cool, I’ve seen ‘em on ATVs.

P-G has apparently been pretty successful with the lespedeza eradication; IIRC the MDC is promoting it for quail habitat rehab on CRP and WRP lands.


2,013 posted on 09/01/2007 7:12:56 PM PDT by osagebowman
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

LOL, that’s what the folks at Times Beach MO thought when they got a ‘deal’ on some oil for their roads.


2,014 posted on 09/01/2007 7:14:32 PM PDT by osagebowman
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To: 300winmag
Who stores 18 million of anything on the eleventh floor?

Vellum in printers, millions of cards on the eleventh floor ... were they just relentlessly dense?

First question: what saved them from a building collapse? Second question: what kind of printer did they use for the vellum? Laser would involve heat, and that would be very weird, but ink is equally strange.

2,015 posted on 09/01/2007 7:21:51 PM PDT by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [.... I'm learnin' about gubmint waste, bouncin' my chin on the floorz ...])
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To: osagebowman

yup... MDC recommended PG... $110 fer 2.5 gal... ugh... fer a glorified 2-4-D...

MDC provided the sprayer... it can go on an ATV, but I bungied it on the tailgate... plugged it intuh the trailer light plug... just turn on yer headlights to start sprayin’...


2,016 posted on 09/01/2007 7:23:42 PM PDT by g'nad
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To: g'nad

heh - dang, that was a good idea. Didn’t think about the trailer light plug (filing that one for future reference). I thought you had used the ATV you had at shootmoot. Big Red comes in real handy, don’t it. :-)


2,017 posted on 09/01/2007 7:31:23 PM PDT by osagebowman
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To: Lil'freeper; Rose in RoseBear
From a financial POV, your characters would have found the most security in investing in the infrastructure of the North.

Except during the war, if they were southernors, they might have invested in Europe.

< /Rhett Butler >

2,018 posted on 09/01/2007 7:38:58 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla; RosieCotton
When I was a teenager, I was way into fountain pens. My mother had a basic Parker set someone had given her for college graduation in the 30s, and I glommed onto it whenever I could. It was cartridge-capable, and she eventually showed me how to change the cart. I then found Peacock Blue ink, and I never looked back. I love a good fountain pen!

Then we would take our clubs and go out to kill a mammoth for supper.

You did not! Mammoths were extinct!

You hunted buffalo ...

<giggling as I run away ...>

2,019 posted on 09/01/2007 7:41:36 PM PDT by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [.... Oh, hai, can I has foun-tin pen? K thanx bye ....])
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To: Rose in RoseBear

Out of curiosity, have you found a good replacement for Peacock Blue?


2,020 posted on 09/01/2007 7:58:58 PM PDT by RosieCotton
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