The New Hobbit Hole

[HairOfTheDog]

Good afternoon! - Though it is still decidedly morning here... Got myself cleaned up and then cleaned the barn... not too smart to do it in that order!

Kids are sure durable... I remember recovering quickly! How wonderful that was.

Gonna have some breakfast and then head to town.

[SuziQ]

Are folk around this weekend in the hobbit hole?

I logged on about 10 ish this morning, but got busy doing all kinds of stuff. I had to pick up the teacher materials for my daughter's Confirmation class (I'm teaching a different group from hers), went and looked a some lots on which a builder is putting up some new homes (way to close to the Interstate!), got some newly picked apples for the pie, filled up Sir SuziQ's car, then came back home to finish washing and drying his clothes for his bidness trip. Just hanging out right now waiting for the Chinese leftovers to finish heating for a late lunch. I'm gonna make the pie later on and we'll have that for supper!

It is a dreary, cool,rainy day here, but I can't complain because I haven't had to water the new grass seed for a couple of days! It is supposed to stay chilly all next week. I guess Fall has truly arrived. The colors are turning faster on the trees now, and it is just lovely!

When I was little, we used to go out 'to the country' to visit my Daddy's sister and her family. We loved running through the woods, playing with her bird dog, Mike, and watching the cows in the field next door. After she died, one of my brothers rented her house from her sons. It had been many years since I had been to the house and I drove right past it because I didn't realize it was so CLOSE to where our house was! It was only a couple of miles out of town, but when I was young, it seemed like it took forever!

[SuziQ]

I can pick up the pony's new raincoat for this year

When I was out driving around today, I took a detour through some country roads. I saw a couple of horses in a paddock. One had on a rain blanket, but the other did not. I felt sorry for the one without; as I said before, it is rainy and chilly!

[SuziQ]

I finally logged on to the name generator and got a couple of interesting names. My Elven name is 'Melinduneiel'. It is a lovely sounding name, but I consider my self a little more Hobbitish, and that one is 'Lobelia Grubb from Stock'!

[2Jedismom]

My hobbit name is May Loamsdown. Yuck.

Well, I have a hundred dollars worth of hotdogs and supplies ready for the pumpkin patch...and it's raining. If people don't show, I don't know if I'll get my money back...

ARGHHH!

[HairOfTheDog]

Hullo!

Well, horses don't actually need raincoats, any vet will tell you that... Left outside, they actually grow pretty protective coats. But I always remind my vet that horses do not natively live wild in this climate either, given a choice, they migrate south in winter.

I blanket Bay because if I do want to work him in winter, life is a lot better if he doesn't have three inches of hair.

The first year, I didn't blanket the pony. She doesn't do any work at all, and it wouldn't really matter if she grew three inches of hair, under most conditions she would be just fine. That is probably what is happening with the two you saw. One is probably going to be used this winter, the other isn't.

Then we had a bad storm. Six inches of snow, which then turned to freezing rain.

I didn't have my closed stalls in the barn yet, only their loafing shed which is under trees. The heavy ice and snow was cracking branches that were falling on the roof of the shelter, and their instincts told them to get away from the trees. So they stood out in the weather.

Bay was OK... His blanket keeps him perfectly dry, but the pony got soaked through and was in serious trouble. The rain fell on her and froze... and she was shivering with her head down. I think she was in real danger of becoming hypothermic.

I didn't own a blanket for her, I didn't have a place to lock them up inside, and I decided that would never happen again. I brought her in the lean-to and brought out every towel in the house and a spare comforter off my bed and started trying to get her dry and warm. I went to the store and bought her a blanket. A relatively cheap one, for emergencies. I still planned to only blanket her during really bad conditions, but Bay wears his 24/7 once the temperature stays below 45, so I gradually just started leaving hers on too because I felt the same as you when I looked out and one was protected and the other wasn't ;~D

And I built their closed stalls the next summer, so that I would not be stuck again with no way of getting them out of storms like that... Only put them in during extreme conditions.... Heh. Now they are put in most every night it might sprinkle. I am just a softy... But I am so grateful for the ability to not worry about them.

This year she got a premium blanket like Bay's new one... (This pic is last year's coats) I need to take a picture of them in their new blankets... they got really good ones this year, on sale, and they match ;~D

[HairOfTheDog]

Hehehe - I have always wondered what would happen if I threw a party and nobody came!

Have they showed up yet? - Or are you still waiting?

[JenB]

Hello! I have been cleaning nonstop since 8. No fun! We painted, carpet cleaned, did bedrooms... thimgs aren't bad now. Oh, I'm tired and I still have homework...

Scott, if you want Elf-y names, check at the back of Silmarilion - there's a short Elvish dictionary. You should be able to string something together! A couples times I have used the name "Elwen" - for "Elf-maid" or "Star-Maid". I like both meanings and it kinda suits me...

[HairOfTheDog]

Speaking of no one coming to the party, my friend just called, now she isn't coming till tomorrow morning. After I washed and put clean bedding in the beds and cleaned up the guest room of course. I guess it needed doing, but I get so few visitors it will probably have to be done again before the next ones.

Her husband is a nurse and works the night shift, and I guess he thought he was going to work but then isn't now, so she is staying home tonight instead of slumber party. What a bummer for me!

[HairOfTheDog]

Hullo! I am gearing up to go to town still... I keep having little distractions!

[JenB]

Well, have fun when you get there...

[Overtaxed]

That site also has...suprise, suprise....a Personality Test! This time I came out Frodo with Gandalf and Aragorn alternatives. What do I have to do to be a Took?!

[Overtaxed]

That site also has...suprise, suprise....a Personality Test! This time I came out Frodo with Gandalf and Aragorn alternatives. What do I have to do to be a Took?!

[Overtaxed]

Doh! Doh!

[JenB]

What do I have to do to be a Took?!

Must...resist...answering...

[Overtaxed]

I suppose I could always push a corpse down a well....

[Overtaxed]

I liked the question about Elrond splitting his infinitives at his council.

[HairOfTheDog]

I never have fun in town!

Well, that's not true... I like the guys at the feed store. When I walked in with my moldy hay, they said... "Man, That is crappy lookin' hay! - Where the heck did you buy that?!" They know darn well where I bought it, I come in every week. Actually, they get pretty mad when they get that kind of hay, because it makes them look bad, and you can't really tell it is bad until you open it.

They made sure I got two nice bales in exchange! So how can I stay mad?

And some bedding and grain, so I still didn't get out of there cheap.

And I picked up the pony's new raincoat. Don't know if it fits yet cuz she is clear out at pasture! I bet she comes in when I start unloading the truck.

[Overtaxed]

The dough is ready. Time to make the pizza!

[HairOfTheDog]

I thought pizza came in boxes already made!