The New Hobbit Hole

[Overtaxed]

Awww you know Matthew will be getting a whistle for his birthday! :)

[2Jedismom]

Yeah! Thinking of a Meg D, but the shipping is twice the price of the whistle from the Whistle Shop!

[Overtaxed]

You'll have to buy in bulk, then.

[Overtaxed]

Fellow Freeper could use some Hobbit Help:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/711336/posts

Awake! Fear! Flood! Foes!

[2Jedismom]

Thanks OT! I pinged my homeschool list.

[Overtaxed]

I don't think she has flood insurance.

[2Jedismom]

No, that is my understanding. Terrible.

[Overtaxed]

Is Kerrville in a flood plain?

[2Jedismom]

I don't think normally it is...flash floods maybe but this is torrential flooding apparently.

[Overtaxed]

I don't carry flood insurance either, but then I'm not in a flood plain. I didn't get flooded during Floyd and that was dubbed the "500 year flood" by our erstwhile politicians.

[htur_75]

I wish I had the ability to take pictures like that

That reminds me, when ecurb gets back on line you should ask him about his pictures. If you like nature photos, he has taken some beautiful ones. Hopefully he will have a website up soon for everyone to see.

[JenB]

Good evening! How are you? I seem to have my email working again, so I'm happy. It's Friday, where's the party?

[HairOfTheDog]

I am here, - got half the pasture fenceline weed-whacked today so I feel that the long weekend may turn out to be productive after all, if I keep it up tomorrow.

Keeping myself entertained on threads about horses and dogs tonight! - A rarity on FR to have both! - And the Hobbit Hole too!

[JenB]

I was just reading a creation/evolution thread. Stupid people on both sides! Smart people on both sides, too, but unfortunately the stupidest sounding person is supposedly on the creationist/Christian side. (Um -let's say it makes your old friend from the Dimensional Door look, er, rational. Practically Socratic.)

[HairOfTheDog]

[sigh] I know, there are people who argue the God cause so irrationally and obnoxiously that it causes me to doubt the whole idea sometimes. I can't stand the religous threads, really, I can't. I admit to having a belief system that does not quite fit any of the ians or ists or ics, but it is a hard-won balance of everything that I have heard and believed.

When I see fellow christians arguing bitterly and cruelly over the meaing of a word that was not even written in our language, let alone in a usage we use today, I have to think: "well, there is no way either of you have 'got it', or you wouldn't be acting this way.

[Sam Cree]

"Keeping myself entertained on threads about horses and dogs tonight!

I was reading one on low fat vs low carb. That always gets people almost as emotional as the creation / evolution debate. Which means it'll be entertaining.

Might wait for the morning to put in my 2 cents (since the issue gets me emotional also).

Do you fall on one side or the other of the creation /evolution debate, JenB?

[JenB]

Sadly, you're right - we do tend to major in the minors, don't we? Just remember, God invented the whole thing but He lets us people mess it up, so nobody's exactly right. Except us Presbyterians (PCA, anyway) because we're just so much better than anyone else. Well, some of us are. Those ones who don't properly fence the communion table, they're on the road to Hell! Yessirree, Heaven's sure going to be a lonely place with only about seven of us, Moses, and God up there... and we're not too sure about Moses.

[JenB]

Yes, I believe in six-day, literal creation. I'm a bit flexible about the age of the earth, and quite frankly it may not have been made on a Thursday, but hey, I figure I believe in God, a few miracles is nothing really.

[HairOfTheDog]

Yeah, at least you will have a lot of peace and quiet up there!

[JenB]

Not likely because since the world is ending on Tuesday, my brothers will probably be up there too. In which case it won't be quiet and the angels will be leaving for Florida in droves.

Just kidding about the Tuesday thing. I'm not that nuts!