The Hobbit Hole IV – The Road Goes Ever On…

[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

The Road Goes Ever On…

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

[2Jedismom]

I have never digested meat very well...when I was a very little girl, I would steal the meat off the table and run off with it and my mom would have to chase me down and take it away (per doctor's orders.)

Now I just suffer the consequences!

[multipurpose]

Yeah, I've seen both movies. I just LOVED them.. but I haven't read the books though. When the third one comes out, my friends and I are having a LOTR marathon, lol.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

This has been happening to me since I had my gall bladder removed two years ago... has gotten to the point where I just avoid red meat as best I can. Chicken and fish don't bother me though, so I don't have to become a vegetarian thankfully.

[2Jedismom]

Matthew just finished his spelling test...

groan
grown
role
roll
herd
heard
waste
waist
peace
piece
steak
stake
stare
stair
pare
pair

Time for lunch!

[msdrby]

good homophones. Yeah, I have been craving Chinese and Japanese alot as well as Mexican. Oh yeah, and pineapples.

[2Jedismom]

I did it! I taught him the math! I went back, explained to Matthew that this was something he was going to need to know and that he needed to learn how to do the formula.

We went over it and over it and he got it on the first try. I still kept going over it and will probably go over it again here in a sec. Then I've got some problems for him to do and the proof will be in the pudding.

I'll keep you posted. Thank you for your help!

[Corin Stormhands]

Mexican food spam...

Now, there's a culinary experienced I would like to avoid...

[Overtaxed]

Is it 4:30 yet? </whine

[2Jedismom]

How 'bout some coffee? Or tea?

How's the cough, Corin?

[HairOfTheDog]

We have the bed all loaded and will be on the road before 11:00! Will be up there by 1:00 unless your bed becomes one of those cursed mattresses in the freeway.

[2Jedismom]

I think I actually bought one of those...did I ever tell you?

[HairOfTheDog]

You have to buy a mattress from the freeway? - Or did you just stop and pick it up?

[2Jedismom]

I went to a cheap furniture store...you know the kind...great big warehouse like thing. They sold me a cheap mattress for my guest bed.

Two years later, as I was making the bed, I notice there there seems to be an extra seam "underneath" the cover of the mattress. I remember feeling of that seeam and just feeling the blood drain out of my face...I knew something wasn't right.

I went and got a knife and began carefully trimming away the cover. Underneath, and I'm not even being dramatic, was the most disgusting mattress I have ever seen. It had a HOLE in the mattress cover and the batting was just coming out. And the batting was dark brown...like bloody. Like someone had either had a baby right in the middle of it or bled out in that bed. It was absolutely horrific.

I videotaped the entire removal of the "new" cover.

[HairOfTheDog]

Really!

[HairOfTheDog]

Did you take it back?

[RosieCotton]

*shudder*

[HairOfTheDog]

Let me know how this turns out.... we gotta go!

[Corin Stormhands]

How's the cough, Corin?

Havin' some coffee right now. Cough is much better today, thanks. I can usually take one or two Drixoral and get rid of a cold. I'm not quite out of the woods, but I feel much better today. Drinking lots of fluids.

[2Jedismom]

I'm not kidding. Got the videotape to prove it.

Oprah had a program about these kinds of things and I remembered it when I felt that extra seam. It was just like they'd stuck a brand new cover on top of a mattress that had been in a ditch or something. It was absolutely filthy.

I remember Matthew coming in the room while I was cutting off the cover and I wouldn't let him near it.

Someone had taken an old mattress cover cut from another mattress and laid it over the hole, then they just covered the whole thing with new material.

I wanted to barf.

[2Jedismom]

Coffee is good...the heat is soothing. I like to drink regular tea too, because I just like the idea of tannins...I think they are healing.

But have no proof to back it up.