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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!
WHOA! That’s some series weaponry! I’m sure UpChuck Schumer wouldn’t approve. ;o)
Got the kids off and into college. Joseph likes his dorm room, and his roommate is a sorta quiet guy who is WAY into sports, so he's Joseph's opposite. But he has several suitemates who are as into video and PC gaming as he is, so he'll find some friends. We also got him hooked up with folks at the Catholic Student Assoc. (CSA; always makes SirKit chuckle), and he likes them, so that is a good thing.
We introduced ourselves to the Pastor of the Parish, and told him of our kinfolks in town, and that Joseph is the nephew of a fellow priest in the Diocese, so Father Tommy now knows Joseph. ;o) He's one of the FBI (Foreign Born Irish) in the Diocese, and speaks with a thick Irish brogue, so it's funny when he throws "y'all" into his speech. Seems natural, just humorous when spoken with the brogue.
It was great visiting with family, though, and we'll see them again next month when we bring down a trailer-load of various and sundry building materials, and electrical and plumbing stuff to put in storage, to get it out of our garage while we're remodeling.
Clare and I went over to New Orleans, and my niece took us down to the French Quarter. I haven't been there in years, and Clare had never been, so we went to the Cafe du Monde for cafe au lait and beignets, then just walked around some. Went into St. Louis Cathedral; what a gorgeous place!
Then we found Marie Levaux's VooDoo shop. What a hoot! It's actually more Santeria than voodoo, because that blends the voodoo with Catholic iconography, so you have dried chicken feet sitting on the shelf next to statues of Saint Barbara, and crucifixes. Strange brew, to be sure. My niece found some little saint statues, and I got one for Clare. It is of Saint Clare, the patron saint of Quality TV Programming, and she's in the typical Medieval saint pose, but she's holding a TV Remote Control in her hand. ;o) Natalie also found one for Saint Vivian, the patron Saint of those with hangovers. She's holding a Bloody Mary. She got that one for her brother, because his dog, Vivian, had just died, and he was still a little sad about it. Also he drinks, so it was appropriate. ;o)
So it was a fun trip, but it's good to be home. We're now 'empty nesters'! Feels strange, after almost twenty-nine years, but it's nice and quiet, that's for sure! Now we have to start working in earnest on the house, so we can get the heck out of MA!
We were in the New Orleans airport waiting for our plane when I saw on CNN that Obama had chosen Biden. I was THRILLED, because Biden is SUCH a goober! Takes some pressure off McCain, but no matter who he picks, the MSM won’t like the choice, and neither will some number of Republicans.
mmmmmm...pancakes...
There was a big fat chipmunk on thedeck this morning when I went out to water some plants. He sort of danced back and forth around the grill.
Our "watch dog", of course, never saw him.
That's jes' beautiful.
Miss Cat is napping at 10:15.
Never even knew it existed until you mentioned it. It looks like a ripoff of the Czech "Scorpion". Maybe Afarat chose it because he couldn't handle a "manly man" cartridge like a 9mm.
Another interesting choice was Hermann Goering's S&W Model 10. He could have had his choice of any pimped-up Walther he wanted (sorta like Saddam and his buddies, but with exquisite engraving rather than cheap gold plating), but instead bought on off-the-shelf American cop revolver from a gun dealer in Hamburg.
Welcome home!
I guess I'll spend the afternoon tidying and writing instead. Got a short story in the works. Did I tell you guys I have yet another typewriter? This one's a desktop model (an Olympia SG3) -- not a portable. For reference, a picture with my up-to-now biggest typewriter, which is the same make and of approximately the same vintage. They go well together!
It's...substantial, to say the least. VERY nice to type on, though. The portable typewriters are a bit of a compromise, and although the portable in the shot (an Olympia SM9) was kind of the equivalent of a 17 inch notebook in its day (i.e. a luggable rather than a road warrior), it still doesn't have the wonderful solid feel and the nifty extra features that big beast does. I like it a lot. May get rid of some of the smaller once, except that really cool old one with the glass keys. And the one that matches the big one. And the little green Hermes I used for last NaNoWriMo. And the old black glass-keyed Royal that doesn't currently completely work, but which was free, so I couldn't pass it up. Aw, dang. I'm doomed to be surrounded by those little suitcases, I think.
Mmmkay. Marie Levaux’s sounds a little too bizarre for me. :-\
Glad the trip went well and that you made it safely back!
I got my grilling done, dishes cleaned, wine drunk, and game watched. Nap time!
Thanks! It was a fun trip. Everyone asked WHEN we’re finally moving down there. I just told them they’d see us when they see us. ;o)
Bizarre, it is, but that's what the Creole culture brought to New Orleans. There were slaves who had had their own religious beliefs in devils, 'haints' and spells, and they just overlaid Catholicism onto that when the missionaries arrived. It is certainly an interesting store, that's for sure.
That’s a cute one. What a pretty kitty!
CZ61 is much smaller that the PM 63 ......yet has same design features as you point out. I was in Italy when the Brigatta Rosa aka Red Brigades killed PM Aldo Moro with a CZ61......
Wonder if the chipmunk is still trying...
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