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The Hobbit Hole XXXVI - O! Water cold we may pour at need...

Posted on 05/03/2008 8:48:06 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

Web page for our moot reports and troop support information!





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To: Corin Stormhands

Heh heh...not only the reunion.com message, but a reply from a guy named Glen Scott who hit “Reply to All” apparently.

Good morning Corin! Good to see things are going as usual for you.

;-)


1,021 posted on 05/21/2008 7:06:14 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: 2Jedismom; Corin Stormhands

Cool, now that we have Corin’s whole contact list we can use it to steal his life.

Oh wait. I don’t think we want his life. Never mind.


1,022 posted on 05/21/2008 7:08:08 AM PDT by JenB
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To: RosieCotton

Last night I went to my Mom’s Night Out with my BA CHEF friends. They asked about my pennywhistle and I told them “Oh, I still play, but this is my newest interest!” and I took out my pen you gave me. It was passed around and commented on...everyone was fascinated by it, wrote their names with it. One lady said she could vaguely remember her mother using one.

It was quite the conversation piece for a while...


1,023 posted on 05/21/2008 7:09:11 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: Corin Stormhands

I’m apparently not invited.

*snif*


1,024 posted on 05/21/2008 7:22:39 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: 2Jedismom

Fun... ;-)

I’ve been playing music a lot - getting ready for that camp in a month. But I messed up and overdid it this weekend...actually have little blisters under what’s left of my old calluses. Ow.

I’d been thinking about attempting that Irish session one more time, but it’s not gonna be tonight, I don’t think. Ow.


1,025 posted on 05/21/2008 7:25:10 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton; g'nad

Oh no!! Heh heh!

I should play more often...my friends love it and I never freeze up in front of them like I did at Shoot Moot. I still can’t figure how that happened.

Anyway...I have good news! A friend of mine got an incubator from the Extension Agency and is going to hatch Tyson meat chickens as a science project for her kids. The whole thing is free (paid for by Tyson) and I’ll probably try to participate in it next year...but the good news is, she doesn’t want ANY of the chicks once they hatch! She has 24 eggs!

She’s going to give all the chicks to me!

What do you think? You think I should finally invest in a deep freeze, what with the rabbits and now these chicks? Rudolph the Red-Doored Freezer was old and used more electricity than I could afford...we sold it in a garage sale.


1,026 posted on 05/21/2008 7:35:11 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: 2Jedismom

I freeze up at the weirdest times. I mean...at the slow jam I’ve been going to, you’ve got about twenty people all in a big circle, all playing at once. People kind of take turns playing the lead, but the truth is, no one can really hear one lead out of the mix. Totally low pressure. And the rest of the folks there are musicians who totally understand. But even there, when my turn comes around, a lot of the time I start shaking uncontrollably and my hands spasm and physically can’t play the tune.

And yet, I didn’t have a problem playing with two or three others on stage when we were playing at that campground and such like, with me the only mando. Go figure.

That’s a lot of chickens...


1,027 posted on 05/21/2008 7:52:57 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: HairOfTheDog

We’re waiting... ;-)


1,028 posted on 05/21/2008 7:53:31 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton

Sorry.... I keep getting distracted... and my browser keeps locking up... and I have to feed horses... and... ACK! Too much pressure! :~)


1,029 posted on 05/21/2008 7:57:56 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

Excuses, excuses! ;-)


1,030 posted on 05/21/2008 8:01:00 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: 2Jedismom

Heh...I got out my own Core after talking to you about ‘em and have it loaded up with some nice brown ink. Other gal in the office just came in to get some info from me and went to grab a pen to write it down with. She spotted the Core and said, “What *is* that??” Kinda fascinated but repulsed at the same time. It seems to be the norm for that pen. ;-)


1,031 posted on 05/21/2008 9:32:22 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton; HairOfTheDog; All

Joshua just caught a good-sized lizard! Green with black and yellow stripes down the back. I saw it in the turnips and flushed it out, he literally dove head-first onto the ground and caught it!

So far today he’s caught this lizard and four toads.


1,032 posted on 05/21/2008 9:59:41 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: RosieCotton

Did you get the converter? I got the converter but it’s got the blue cartridge in it right now.


1,033 posted on 05/21/2008 10:01:11 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: 2Jedismom

Yeah - it’s using the converter right now.

One of these days I’ll probably order some Private Reserve ink cartridges, just ‘cause they’re handy.


1,034 posted on 05/21/2008 10:05:34 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton
I'm back...took a lunch break.

How does the converter work? Does it just pop on like a cartridge, then you stick the nib in the ink and turn the knob at the top of the converter? That's kinda how I'm understanding it...

This is the one I got for the Preppy...they said it was on back order, but I got it with the rest of my order anyway.


1,035 posted on 05/21/2008 10:37:25 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: RosieCotton
I got Matthew the Technor Core...and you're right, it's an odd fountain pen! Heh heh...

He doesn't like the blue ink in it, so Steve is using it...but it did come with the converter so I'll put Heart of Darkness in it eventually.

I'm going to put the Legal Lapis you gave me in the Pink Preppy when the pink ink runs out.

1,036 posted on 05/21/2008 10:46:27 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: RosieCotton

Oh, and I’m looking for a vial or little bottle of some sort to send you some Heart of Darkness...can’t find one that I trust. They all have “stoppers” instead of lids.


1,037 posted on 05/21/2008 10:47:40 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: 2Jedismom

Yeah, you put it in like a cartridge. And there are a couple of different types of converters, but for the twist type, yes, you’d lower the nib into the ink once the converter is in place, and then turn the knob to draw ink in. You may have to screw it out all the way first. There’s a sort of little plunger inside.


1,038 posted on 05/21/2008 10:48:42 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton

Oh...Ok!

I’m sure my hands will shake.

Well, I’m off. Matthew has to have a tetanus shot before he can go on his choir trip...so we’re off to take care of that.


1,039 posted on 05/21/2008 10:50:29 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: 2Jedismom
That's the Core I've got, too! It's...not exactly sleek and classy.

The other thing I remember about the Core is that when it was new, it didn't feel all that smooth and sometimes skipped a bit. Like it had to break in slightly or something - I dunno!

I'd love to try the Heart of Darkness ink, but no rush, for sure! I want to find some bottles for ink, too, so I can play with mixing again. I'm thinking I may check the grocery where they have toiletry type bottles for travel. The catch is that many of those little bottles would have tops too narrow for a pen.

I've heard the mini Nalgene bottles are the ultimate (they come in a couple different sizes), but I don't know of anywhere locally that carries them. I wish we had an REI in town. What's up with a decent sized Northwest town not having an REI? It's not right.

1,040 posted on 05/21/2008 10:58:02 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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