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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: HairOfTheDog
Naughty shopping for toys so close toe Christmas... ;~)

I don't suppose this was on anybody's shortlist anyway. :-)

But it does open up some opportunities... Like the Galco inside-the-pants soft holster (left hand) to fit the 5in 1911 that would work splendidly for both this and my other pistol in a small-of-the-back rig. I'm just sayin' is all. :-).

9,701 posted on 12/11/2007 8:43:11 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Ramius

Too late... :~)


9,702 posted on 12/11/2007 8:45:44 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: ecurbh

Ooh, ack. That’s no good.


9,703 posted on 12/11/2007 8:46:34 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Ramius
Finally took the plunge today and decided on the Kimber Ultra RCP II.

Kinda cute. What's it gonna be when it grows up? :)

I'd like to see FN make a single-stack ultra-compact 5.7mm carry piece. I don't think most armed forces would be interested, though.

9,704 posted on 12/11/2007 9:10:25 PM PST by 300winmag (Life is hard! It is even harder when you are stupid!)
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To: 300winmag

Heh. :-)

They say that its the lightest and most compact 45 on the market, that still accepts a standard colt 7 rnd magazine.

I like that. Well, that and the half-inch holes it puts in stuff.
:-)


9,705 posted on 12/11/2007 9:31:45 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: JenB; RosieCotton
I just hit 70k on my story At least 10k left, maybe more.

Congrats!!

I've been un-crocheting Big'ol's afghan. This is the result of some bad math in the early stages causing it to be more of a trapezoid than a rectangle.... *grumble*

9,706 posted on 12/12/2007 2:57:14 AM PST by Lil'freeper (Don't taze me, bro!)
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To: Ramius

Seven rounds - standard 7 round magazine, very nice.

Now, when you going to pick up a Kimber .22 (kit or dedicated platform) go with the others? I understand they are making one just for you. :-)


9,707 posted on 12/12/2007 5:15:48 AM PST by osagebowman
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To: Lil'freeper

Yeah, my story is feeling clunky right now but progress is progress.

I don’t want to go to work today.


9,708 posted on 12/12/2007 5:55:04 AM PST by JenB
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To: JenB
Today I cleaned a bathroom, replaced a curtain with a decorative hanging we got in Japan, changed sheets, and stripped the ugly border wallpaper from half the kitchen. I feel productive.

Nesting?

9,709 posted on 12/12/2007 6:14:36 AM PST by Corin Stormhands ( It's okay to tell me "Merry Christmas")
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To: Corin Stormhands

*snicker*


9,710 posted on 12/12/2007 6:18:28 AM PST by Lil'freeper (Don't taze me, bro!)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Not yet. Talon’s dad loaned us some concrete shears so we can finally get to work on the counters and since Talon wasn’t feeling up for much work yesterday I started in on the wallpaper.

The rest was because I got sent home early from work due to weather and couldn’t sit still with a messy house.


9,711 posted on 12/12/2007 6:20:17 AM PST by JenB
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To: Lil'freeper
Aw, man...:-( I'm bad about undoing stuff. Unless something is completely, completely off, I'm likely to just keep going. But trapezoidal could make for troubles.

I've been working on the afghan for meeeee. I need more white yarn, though, so I'm at a standstill. It's really rather nice, though. I'm using the same double-strand pattern I used for thenewniece, but making it larger.

I still want to take that one afghan up to Puyallup soon...maybe this weekend, but I'm hopefuly going to this on Saturday (if I can still get tickets!), so I may be all funned out by early afternoon that day. So we'll see.

9,712 posted on 12/12/2007 6:28:25 AM PST by RosieCotton ("Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." -- G.K. Chesterton)
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To: RosieCotton

Nothing like getting to the end of your street to head to work and seeing police tape and multiple cop cars at the apartment complex on the corner. Yay for low rent housing murders.


9,713 posted on 12/12/2007 7:08:49 AM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

Oh my...what happened?


9,714 posted on 12/12/2007 7:10:09 AM PST by RosieCotton ("Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." -- G.K. Chesterton)
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To: RosieCotton

Word is it was a “he found her with someone else” deal. Local news is reporting one person shot and killed around 1 o’clock last night.

One of those things that makes you feel glad to have guns in the house, you know?


9,715 posted on 12/12/2007 7:15:11 AM PST by JenB
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To: JenB; RosieCotton; TalonDJ
Word is it was a “he found her with someone else” deal ...... One of those things that makes you feel glad to have guns in the house, you know?

'scuse me?

9,716 posted on 12/12/2007 7:21:47 AM PST by Corin Stormhands ( It's okay to tell me "Merry Christmas")
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To: Corin Stormhands

Um, because those are our neighbors who are apparently the homicidal types.


9,717 posted on 12/12/2007 7:34:21 AM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

er.... right....


9,718 posted on 12/12/2007 7:37:17 AM PST by TalonDJ
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To say nothing of the Hillary and Obama supporters...


9,719 posted on 12/12/2007 7:37:57 AM PST by TalonDJ
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To: TalonDJ

Yes but at least they aren’t armed (not even for a battle of wits).


9,720 posted on 12/12/2007 7:39:56 AM PST by Corin Stormhands ( It's okay to tell me "Merry Christmas")
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