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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!
Mine?
Ack! by one second!
Thanks for making me part of that...
He used to pull this act when he was a kitten. It got bad enough that I’d crate him in another part of the house so I could sleep.
Then I got Halvah and they’d play enough that he actually slept through the night. I think she’s slackin’ on the job lately...
Feeling used? ;-)
Can I go home and write now? My brain is tired of werk...
So maybe you should get Tam a kitten...
“Last week I woke up one morning with an earworm for a song from my dream.”
As a musician it’s maddening to me to repeatedly “hear” a song that only exists in my head.
I’ve only once been able to spit one out and have the other guys in the band play it exactly as I heard it in my head, an almost spiritual experience.
I wouldn't go to Myanmar anyways...but I would go to Picher if I didn't have this brain scan/kidney test thing looming! I still haven't heard when it's going to be. It has to be approved by my insurance. I told him I'd pay for it myself and he said "Oh, you won't need to do that." But it sure is taking a long time!
This is from Channel Six.
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| The Southern Baptist team is helping. They didn't have to choose between Picher, Oklahoma and Myanmar. They're going to both of them. |
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| During the past few years, Southern Baptist Relief workers from Oklahoma have helped after disasters, large and small. |
Oklahomans are rising to the challenge of the storm damage both here at home and abroad. As they have so many times before, the Southern Baptist Relief Team is one of those responding. News on 6's Steve Berg reports the Southern Baptist team didn't have to choose between Picher, Oklahoma and Myanmar. They're going to both of them.
Sam Porter with The Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Team says they're actually already on the scene in Picher, and they're prepping for an overseas trip.
"It keeps me busy to say the least, coordinating a thing in Myanmar and also in Picher," said Sam Porter with the Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Team.
Ironically, the Baptist presence in Myanmar might predate that in Oklahoma. Porter says the first Baptist missionary to ever leave the United States went to Burma in the early 1800's.
"I think even our Baptist people don't have a clue how long, that we've been there for almost 200 years now, which is amazing," said Porter. "And they estimate there are at least a million Baptists in Burma, which is now called Myanmar."
Even if the military junta doesn't let them in, they say the local leaders can get out.
"We won't be frustrated. We won't cry if we can't get in. We already know we can get them out. They'll come to us and we'll train them in water purification, building medical and tell them what to do. They can make that happen, and then send all of our goods back in with the nationals," said Porter.
During the past few years, Southern Baptist Relief workers from Oklahoma have helped after disasters, large and small. They have helped at Ground Zero after 9-11, with the Tsunami disaster in Thailand in 2004 and with the last ice storm, among others.
You know, he’d like that.
I don’t think I would, though...
Though I guess it’s about time I accepted and embraced crazy maiden aunt cat lady status. *sigh*
Wear red chuck taylors!!!
:-D
Bah!
How about mostly-sane professional pet adopter?
You're not really there until you and the cats are eating out of the same Purina can...
Or they find your half eaten corpse in a refuse filled house... I am not helping am I? I blame work. Slow day.
Right now, we have six cats.
What does that make me?
(Two are temporary, though.)
I hope I didn’t offend Rosie with the red sneaker comment...
;-)
~sigh~
We’re under a tornado watch. Guess I’ll fetch the blanket and the weather radio and our briefcase full of important papers and put them in the bathtub.
After seeing what happened to Picher, I’m half-seriously considering what one of you said about that empty septic tank out there! That EF-4 stripped everything off the foundations of some of those homes.
Um...thanks...I think. I’m not *quite* there...
I guess it gives me something to aspire to, huh?
I think the two cat limit rule only applies to single gals. ;-)
It’s really a relief to finally admit you’re crazy...I remember how much better I felt when I did it.
;-)
Heh heh!!
I’m freezing. Before I put the stuff in the tub, I think I’ll take a hot soak.
Batter down your hatches!
If you try the septic tank thing... just invest in lots of air fresheners. ;~)
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