The New Hobbit Hole

[HairOfTheDog]

Spongebob is on

Hullo! - Tackling my chores, one by one, with stops in between at the Hobbit Hole!

[JenB]

Man, writing is a chore today. Fortunately it's still better than studying about recursive-descent parsers.

[HairOfTheDog]

SInce I caught you sneaking.... you get another spongebob! As a gift.

[JenB]

I'm gonna get you for that... gonna write lots and lots today so you have to kill many, many trees to print and read my story.

[Overtaxed]

It's supposed to be football.

[JenB]

Oh. That doesn't sound good.

Yay, at least I've done a thousand words today. Man, I'm going to get behind... must at least get Gil into an even worse situation.

[HairOfTheDog]

so you have to kill many, many trees to print and read my story.

Hroom hoom! - I don't see why you are taking everything out on me!

[JenB]

Now that's a much better picture!

[2Jedismom]

You would not believe the work I've done! I got a huge amount of the leaves raked and piled most of them onto a tarp. Then I drug them around to the back yard and the boys have been playing in them! (That mashes them up and then we use it for mulch in the garden.)

Then I mowed and mulched the rest of the front yard leaves into tiny pieces.

Then I sprayed the house with house cleaner and then took a MOP and scrubbed the entire front of the house. We had so many spiders that they had pooped an incredible amount on the front of our light bamboo colored masonite-sided house! Who knew spiders could poop so much!? Most of them didn't tolerate the house cleaner solution I used.

Then I spiffed up the outside of the windows with Windex.

[Overtaxed]

Come and do my house tomorrow?

[JenB]

You sound over-efficient. I washed a car, studied, and wrote about... 1300 words today. Saturdays are for being lazy!

[2Jedismom]

Unfortunately, I think someone stole the boy's pumpkins that they got at their pumpkin patch party a couple of weeks ago...

[JenB]

Oh, well, they'd be getting moldy anyway, right? So... someone did you a favor and got rid of them early?

Man, I sound like Pollyanna. Sorry!

[2Jedismom]

Well, the last time I saw them, they were in great shape. We picked them fresh off the vine on October 12th. We were going to roast the seeds. A good thing is the boys seem to have forgotten about them...out of sight, out of mind so to speak.

But it depresses me. We just live in that kind of world now. And our neighborhood isn't that great. Last year, the kids built a snowman in the front yard and it got torn down and the stuff stolen off it. I hate it that they are unable to do things in their own front yard.

I am able to take them to my mom's house and they play outside with the neighbors. They moved in right next door, much to my delight...five homeschooled children and I was already good friends with their mom. An answer to prayer. The kids in our neighborhood are wild and have no manners or even basic understanding about what it polite and good.

[Snake65]

I've been tracking my extended version online...Best Buy shipped it, and it is moving through the bowls of the Post Office reeeeeally slowly. What's especially frustrating is that is shipped from a suburban Chicago warehouse and I'm in Chicago too...I was hoping to get it a bit early.

Ah well. Cleaned the office and vaccumed up cat hair from behind the 'puter. Then it's time to do some writing.

[JenB]

That's really sad. We have our own bit of property, not as much as at our old house. There, our backyard was very narrow but it went down for ages, and there was about a mile of woods behind it, and nobody else in the area had kids so we wandered all over their woods too. Here... well, there's a really nice piece of woods next to us but it belongs to some really nasty people who threatened to sue us if we so much as set foot in it.

But we don't really have neighbors. There are a couple houses behind us, and one next to us, but none of them have kids, and the next-door folks are the local Republican committee people so they're never there. We're really rather fortunate there. It's so nice not to live in a neighborhood.

[Overtaxed]

Sorry to hear about the pumpkins. :(

I've got a bit more of my daily quota written and a few plot twist and subplot material I'm thinking about. I'll try to get this plot thing more organized before the week starts so (hopefully)it'll be easier to write during the week.) Right now I'm taking a tea break, watching the end of the Busch race, and practicing on the Feadog.

[JenB]

Excellent! Incidentally, if you want to share your disjointed scenes, I'd love to see them... you could email them to me if you wanted to share.

Man, I'm kinda stuck. I mean, I know what I want to do but I can't write it out. Let's see if I can just get to a good stopping point and work on it more tomorrow.

[Overtaxed]

Well....it's kind of disjointed but so far I'm writing the same point of time from three different characters' viewpoints. I still can't decide whom to make the viewpoint character but I've got a bit of background/ motivation stuff down.

[Overtaxed]

BTW, since it's gotten cooler do your whistles...uh...form condensate and drip more readily than in the summer?