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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!





TOPICS: The Hobbit Hole
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To: HairOfTheDog; RosieCotton

Luke is still lobbying for another pet. If you catch one, can you fax it to me?

Use a salmon for the cover sheet.


4,601 posted on 08/15/2008 6:10:34 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (http://dontgomovement.com/)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Salmon and a kitten ought to fit in the same box. :~)


4,602 posted on 08/15/2008 6:11:58 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

For a while at least...


4,603 posted on 08/15/2008 6:23:01 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (http://dontgomovement.com/)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Penned cats? That will not end well.


4,604 posted on 08/15/2008 6:33:45 AM PDT by Overtaxed (What gun is best for bitter clinging?)
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To: HairOfTheDog; Corin Stormhands

4,605 posted on 08/15/2008 6:35:57 AM PDT by Overtaxed (What gun is best for bitter clinging?)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Somehow I’m thinking you may catch sister cat again. Repeatedly.

She apparently doesn’t have the best of memories.

Hope the kittens are still young enough to be tamed!

Ungh...it’s already too hot out there. And I got out the door late. And if today is anything like yesterday, I’ll be ready to pass out from sheer boredom by about ten.

At least it’s Friday! And there was a fresh pot of coffee ready when I got here. Little things....


4,606 posted on 08/15/2008 8:45:47 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton
I'm thinking I'll catch her repeatedly too, if I let her go... so that's why I built a pen to hold her in yesterday... she can be part of the bait for the kittens.

For last night I just left it open and fed them in there... and have the trap sitting there too, so they get used to seeing it. If I catch momma first, I'll empty her into the pen (hopefully) and reset it for the kittens.

I Wicket tested it... it held her!


4,607 posted on 08/15/2008 8:51:34 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

Looks good!

I like the Wicket test. ;-) “Let meowt!”


4,608 posted on 08/15/2008 9:20:18 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton

Well, I figure if I have to hold one or both mommas, they’d like that better than being in a dog crate... either that or in the back of the truck. I’m curious if I can put both mommas in there together. They used to be friends and sleep together before they had kittens, you think they still are now? I never see them together any more, the one still having her litter with her.


4,609 posted on 08/15/2008 9:23:25 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog; RosieCotton

Well obviously the one still bears the shame of having the welfare state take her children away.

As I once heard a welfare client say “she had her children taken away because she was an unfilthy mother...”


4,610 posted on 08/15/2008 9:37:29 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (http://dontgomovement.com/)
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To: Corin Stormhands

They’ve both had kittens taken away. And I suspect there was some kitten swapping taking place. The kitten Barkley killed was bigger than the rest of that litter, seemed the size of Wicket’s litter.


4,611 posted on 08/15/2008 10:22:52 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

Well, good luck with catching them.

News story around here are about the pest-control operator who avoided jail time for gassing three feral cats. A local TV station hired him to deal with the cats. He was fined $250 each and sentenced to 12 months in prison for each cat. He’s managed to avoid the jail time, but has to pay the fines.

Law says that “companion” animals must be euthanized by a vet. Thing is, feral cats aren’t really “companion” animals.

And, had they gone to the SPCA and not been adopted, they would have been released, not euthanized.


4,612 posted on 08/15/2008 10:30:21 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (http://dontgomovement.com/)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Huh?


4,613 posted on 08/15/2008 10:36:20 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: Corin Stormhands

idjits...


4,614 posted on 08/15/2008 10:38:54 AM PDT by g'nad
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To: HairOfTheDog

No, srsly...

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-08-15-0194.html


4,615 posted on 08/15/2008 10:42:31 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (http://dontgomovement.com/)
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To: g'nad

well, there you are...

how’re you doin’?


4,616 posted on 08/15/2008 10:42:56 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (http://dontgomovement.com/)
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To: Corin Stormhands; 300winmag; osagebowman

busier than a one-legged man in a butt kickin’ contest...

wrappin’ things up... headin out to Iowa in a few... been a year since I been home...

I been keepin’ tabs, but been werkin’ crazy hours tryin’ tuh get this project to production... so close... so close...


4,617 posted on 08/15/2008 10:47:22 AM PDT by g'nad
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To: g'nad

you really ought to give Iowa a try...provided you were contrary...

take care of yerself...


4,618 posted on 08/15/2008 11:09:28 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (http://dontgomovement.com/)
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To: Overtaxed

Hey! I have six exact replicas of that rabbit! Heh heh!

Hyacinth had eight more but I just discovered one died. So I’ve been out dealing with that and am now getting ready for work.


4,619 posted on 08/15/2008 11:42:53 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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Could the clock *possibly* move any slower?

Three hours.

*sigh*

THREE hours.


4,620 posted on 08/15/2008 2:02:40 PM PDT by RosieCotton
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