The Hobbit Hole IV – The Road Goes Ever On…

[Wneighbor]

Night Jen! Have a better day tomorrow!

[RosieCotton]

Bread is awesome...hope I can duplicate it next time!

And now to bed, and now to bed!

[Corin Stormhands]

Of course! (she hasn't been paying attention)

Kids these days...

[Corin Stormhands]

Does he look like you or his mom?

Those are g'nad's eyes, that's fer sure.

[Wneighbor]

Goodnight Rosie!

I'm starting to think my coming home from work just triggers everyone to get sleepy!!! Or run away..... :-)

[ecurbh]

Well, some of us are still AT work. (Only 2 1/2 hours left though!)

[Corin Stormhands]

Speaking of slacking...you got a plot yet?

That's dang near a week and a half away...I don't need no steenking plot!

[Wneighbor]

So, what's this I was reading during class about you maybe leaving earlier than planned? Finishing up your work earlier than expected or just taking off?

[ecurbh]

Well today is my last day at work. If I can get the car loaded and the futon delivered early enough in the day, I am hoping to get started tomorrow afternoon and make it at least to Fargo, maybe to Bismarck.

[Corin Stormhands]

you gotta map? survival kit?... firearm?...

Yup. Nope. Nope.

You do realize you just announced to the Nazgul that an unarmed Hobbit is venturing out his front door...

[Corin Stormhands]

Whew!! The pressure's off!

The pressure's off ecurbh...

[Wneighbor]

So, I thought you had to work all the way through until Thursday or something. To get accumulated vacation pay.

It's a shame we don't have Hobbit Hole Dwellers along your path for you to stop and sack out with on your journey. Would be a big help to you for sure!

[Wneighbor]

Surely you don't think elves feel pressure? We have eternity to get things done!!!

[Rose in RoseBear]

You know, people will pay handsomely for freshly-laid eggs.

Back during the Depression, my mother taught school out in Alpine, Texas. (For those who don't know, Alpine is out West Texas way, in the high country just east of El Paso.) Mamma taught nine students in a one-room schoolhouse that served as the church on Sunday, and she rented a room from Miz Marzet (Mrs. Morrissette, if you compensate for that West Texas drawl), a well-known and respected local cook. Miz Marzet had chickens that lay huge brown eggs. Supposedly, such fresh "country" eggs would help a sick person heal, and people would pay 5 cents a piece for them, even back then --- and back then, 5 cents would buy enough crackers and bologna for a working man's lunch.

You know, 2J, the eggs of free-range chickens might go over very nicely in some chi-chi restaurant up there ... you should inquire ...!

[HairOfTheDog]

get started tomorrow afternoon and make it at least to Fargo, maybe to Bismarck.

Behave yourself in Fargo.... Cop there is a good one!

[ecurbh]

No, I just had to give two weeks notice to get that. I did find out today that I won't get any profit sharing at the end of the year, in spite of the fact that I gave them 8 months of my life. Sticklebats.

[ecurbh]

Oh ya, yer durn tootin'!

[Wneighbor]

And Alpine is one of the best spots in Texas.... right after Ft. Davis! 'Course, just down the road from one another it's kinda natural they'd be sorta the same.

I have checked out the Sul Ross website several times.... just in case they need an experienced CADD intructor. If I went out there ya think you and Bear might make it out to moot? In the mountains?

Had a great aunt and uncle taught school in Wink. Not the same scenery but close geographically. Well, comparatively, for Texas.

[ecurbh]

I've been to Alpine TX! It was one of our stops the summer I was in a touring christian music group.

[Wneighbor]

Well, tomorrow is one of my busier days. If I don't get to talk to ya, have a safe trip! And I'll be praying for travel safety!