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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!
It’s actually been fairly tame so far...but sometimes it takes a few hundred posts for one of those to really devolve.
Oh boy. The cringe came 0.10 seconds after clicking the link. *sigh*
Ok, so the twisted NaNoWrimo Gene finds the idea of off-ing the spouse instead of divorcing because the prison sentence is less burdensome than the lawyer/alimony/childsupport racket very interesting. Could be good story material.
Makes for a good motive, even if the guy is actually hoping to get away with it rather than do the prison sentence.
Hm.
Speaking of writing, I did a few hundred words on the NaNo story this morning. It isn’t much, but at least it’s moving. I’d like to finish that one, roughly, and then put it away for a few months.
Amen!
Now THAT’S cute!!
Have you seen this?
http://www.co.thurston.wa.us/events/2007-flood/aerial-images/index.htm
The ones that really got me were the ones with the cows. :-( Poor things...hope most of them got out OK.
Some of them didn’t. There was a dairy farmer down there that lost ~hundreds~ of cows. Wet, drowned, carcasses everywhere.
I was encouraged that in a lot of those shots I ~didn’t~ see horses and cows standing there around those farms, so we can only hope they’d been moved to higher ground by then.
Since there was a levy break, not just regular high water, it hit a lot of people who didn’t have a “well the river’s flooding again” plan. It flooded areas that don’t usually flood.
In pretty bad shape here. Still have power, thank goodness...a lot of folks don’t. Our pretty oak out by our driveway is demolished. Our lawn is full of large limbs!
Been out all morning with thenaybor. Remember that big cottonwood on the corner? A limb from it went through her roof. We helped her get a tarp on it, because on top of all the ice, it’s POURING, thundering and lightening!
I got pics but am sneaking...will post them when I can.
(They let me stay home from orientation.)
I bet Becky doesn’t have power... she posted in the wee hours that her trees were breaking. It’ll be mess at the very least around her place.
I’m amazed at some of the pictures of the roads in particular - what’s normally just a dip in the road show as the road completely disappearing under mud and water. LONG stretches. I wonder how many people ended up stranded in upper rooms for the duration, without power or running water.
Lots. there were people who had to cut their way out of the top of roofs... it came fast when the levy broke, just like New Orleans. No warning.
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Scary stuff. :-\ Getting trapped like that is my worst nightmare. Fire or water, either one is frightening.
So...what did you think of the new farrier? And what did he have to say about Bay’s feet?
Heh... I couldn’t figure out why you thought it was a FReeper till I finally saw the title ;~)
It’s a series alarm clock. ;-)
Nice guy, not a spring chicken, he’s been shoeing horses since 1947. Pretty spry for nearly 80. I was just praying Bay wouldn’t have an “Arab” moment and hurt him. But Bay was a kindly old gentleman.
For twenty years he ran the farrier school that used to be here in town, operated by the community college, years ago. I remember it. It folded for lack of students a few years after he retired the first time.
Now he takes on a few clients, and writes.. He may use the pictures of Bay’s feet in a future article.
He thought Bay’s feet had been butchered. He doesn’t have much that’s good to say about NB shoeing. He’d like to see much more in the form of schooling and certification for farriers. Anyone can hang out a shingle and call themselves a farrier... and it’s hard for owners to know who’s qualified.
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