The New Hobbit Hole

[2Jedismom]

I am truly a mess! For the better part of this beautiful day, we worked out in the garden. We had a lot of prep work to do, plus a lot of weeding and loosening of the soil. We planted 4 broccoli plants, 4 cabbages, 4 cauliflower plants and about 150 onion plants, eight leaf lettuce plants and a thyme plant! We also planted about 50 snow pea plants, just because Joshua loves them so much and can "graze" on them while out in the garden.

Anyway, I gotta get cleaned up, then I'll be back too...maybe try to get into the egroup chat room.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

It was just a little plain.

Bet you forgot the worcestershire sauce!

[MozartLover]

Hello to all of my hobbity friends! I feel I've been neglecting you of late..........lots of stuff happening here, you know, that...."life".....stuff that sometimes comes up & gets in the way of freeping.;^)

I'm not even going to TRY to catch up, unless of course there have been any interesting PICTURES posted recently I should be aware of.;^)

Hubby & I have decided we really must relace our 30-plus year old set of books; I'm re-reading FOTR, he's up to TTT; and pages are falling out (and those that are there a a lovely shade of yellow), covers are missing, etc. Perhaps I will take a trip to Barnes & Noble this week.

I don't know how many of you are familiar with this site, but there are some really cool pictures here and it is updated frquently. Musings of Viggo. And no, it's not all about Aragorn all the time.:)In fact there is a lot of "Hobbity" content.

[MozartLover]

From the above website:

VIGGO QUOTE OF THE WEEK:

“When everything looks worst, the individuals in the fellowship have to find in themselves some sort of hope. They have to meet their individual challenges so that the group challenge can work. In the end, it really isn't about only Frodo, or only Gandalf, or only Aragorn, or what have you. You can be a fan of any one of the characters, but in the end I think you end up being a fan of all of them.”

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

You can be a fan of any one of the characters, but in the end I think you end up being a fan of all of them.

So true. In fact, I think you will find that HairOfTheDog has become a big fan of Boromir!

[HairOfTheDog]

That is a good Viggo site, I have been there, and I will go check it out now...

Not much has happened of late I guess... Today I have been spellbound-glued to the Live Eagle Nest Cam here in Washington State. There is a pair of eagles tending some eggs there that are set to hatch around the 22nd.

I have been copying some of the events there here in my Best of Eagle Cam Photo Album If you would like to catch the highlights and don't want to watch them for hours the way I have been. They do spend hours just kindof sitting on the eggs while the other one hunts and does eagle stuff. Then they switch. Kind-of curious to see waht they will do now that the sun has set and it is getting dark... Don't know if the mate will return and settle in for the night while we can still see anything.

Lucius - were you watching the eagle cam today when Mr. Gwahir finally came home? - Click my "Best of" link up there if you didn't - it was cool.

[HairOfTheDog]

Now stop it! - Stop it I say!

[MozartLover]

Hmmmmm............something tells me I missed something............

BTW my bro-in-law still hasn't seen the movie but now says he WILL go. All my propogandizing finally paid off.;^)

[HairOfTheDog]

hehehehe - you missed the personality test that was posted up yonder thread somewhere. It tells you what LOTR character you resemble from your answers to its questions. Due to some previously undiagnosed personality flaw, I turned out to be Boromir. I think it was only because I was drunk at the time, but I haven't bothered to retake it yet.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Lucius - were you watching the eagle cam today when Mr. Gwahir finally came home?

Missed it, was out catching some dinner for me and Mrs. Sulla. You can clearly see that there are two eggs in your pics. I looked up some information on eagles, it seems that the females are larger and stronger, and that the second egg usually hatches about 40 days after the first one. If this is true, this will be a long running show.

[MozartLover]

oh wow......I want to take that test..............I'll dig through the thread tomorrow & find it. Right now my pillow............and chapter 8.....are calling me.:)

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I turned out to be Faramir, Captain of Gondor, so Hair is my long lost brother, but this annoys her for some reason.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

By the way, there is a new thread on The Two Towers in our little Hobbit topic.

[MozartLover]

Really?

Boy, I'd better start reading faster............

[HairOfTheDog]

I am just jealous of Faramir. True, Dad likes me best, but Dad is also clearly losing his marbles. You are cuter and smarter, and the people like you. I am a not-too-bright jock with easily corruptable principles. (although my profile read a little bit more complimentary, I know the truth)

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Well Faramir doesn't enter the story until half the book is over, and it is not that bad to grow up the heir-apparent of the greatest country in the known world. Just because you have to put up with 'the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune'! (especially the arrows)

[HairOfTheDog]

You're not kidding about the arrows... Diameter of table-legs they were!... Still smarts.

[HairOfTheDog]

It's at 2245....

[Luis Gonzalez]

Helm’s Deep.

Down the valley of the shadows,
in the red, and bloody dawn,
rode the forty thousand demons
bringing evil to the land.

Pass the word among the kingdoms
to every corner of the land,
find the one who has been chosen
to wield the power in his hand.

Face the demons,
stand your ground,
on this day Hell rides on Helm’s Deep.
To the last man,
we’ll wage war,
for this day death calls on Helm’s Deep.

Gather all your sunrise warriors,
ride them hard, and ride them fast,
comes the Dark Lord and his legions,
we must meet them at the pass.

Farmer, warrior, Lord, and Wizard
stand together at the wall.
Seven Kings shall heed the message,
a ring of gold to bind them all.

Face the demons,
stand your ground,
on this day Hell rides on Helm’s Deep.
To the last man,
we’ll wage war,
for this day death calls on Helm’s Deep.

[Luis Gonzalez]

I know, it's sophomoric...but I wrote it while I was in HIgh School.