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Posted on 06/17/2004 7:09:03 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
The Hobbit Hole will be Represented in person by 2Jedismom, Bear in Rosebear, Rose in RoseBear, Overtaxed, Penny1, RMDupree, Scott from the Left Coast, Wneighbor and Ramius (brother of the bride)
Thank you all for coming! And for everyone watching and participating from home via that camera, we hope you can enjoy the day ~almost~ as much as being there!
Any idea on what to do with about 300 very green apples?
"Aren't I ~complaining~ about my mom now? *grin*"
LOL! Yes, but you're complaining about her complaining, so it's anti-complaining :) There's a time and place for complaining, it's when it gets excessive that it's a problem. I don't hear you complaining in the Hole very often, just periodically when stuff is getting to you, which is normal. Now if you start complaining every other post, then we may have to make you watch Bakshi as punishment. . .
boil 'em up, mash 'em up, put 'em in a stew?
"It SEEMS like mandolin would be the result of an illicit union between a guitar and a fiddle..."
Isn't that how orcs were created, too? :) Okay, I'm looking up what my enecylopedia says on "mandolin" now, and it says, "It was probably copied from the lute", and also the 4-stringed mandolin is "tuned in fifths, like the violin". Now a fiddle is basically a type of violin, right?--wonder if that would fit with the guitar/fiddle union theory.
Apple pie?
Or if Ramius ever gets the potato cannon fixed, they may be useful as ammo!
Sit on 'em and squash 'em one by one?
Are they tart? You could make apple pies, apple crisps, cobbler, sauce....
A fiddle IS a violin, yes.
Two different names for the same thing. In general, classical musicians call it a violin, other styles refer to it as a fiddle.
The HORROR!!!! No complaining from me, I assure you. Bakshi is evil.
They'd be better projectiles than pie, good idea!.... they are really super green. Inedibly tart. Wouldn't have been ripe till August.
I'm gonna toss them out for the bunnies and birds... and I am not even sure they'll eat 'em!
mmmmm....tarts....
How tart is too tart? The horses will eat them, but they make a face when they do!
Speaking of bunnies, have you seen any of the babies yet?
I guess if they're still tart after adding sugar, they're too tart.
More from the violin article:
"Musicians have used many kinds of stringed instruments. . .for thousands of years. But no one knows when players began to use bows, instead of just plucking the strings. Chinese players used bowed instruments in the AD 900s. A hundred years later, musicians used forms of bowed instruments in many countries in Asia, Europe, and northern Africa. In the 1400s players started using bows to play instruments of the guitar family. These bowed guitars developed into the instruments called viols. The first violins date from the 1500's. They were developed from the early bowed instruments, rather than from the viols. For many years, viols and violins developed side by side, each influencing the other. But by the late 1600s, most musicians favored the violin family, and the viols dropped out of use."
There are still enough for many pies high in the tree. I think we'll wait, and make pies from those when they are riper!
Maybe you can feed them to the squirrels.
Nope! - Adults hopping around this morning, but no sign of younguns yet... I don't remember what time of year they appeared last year, so I don't yet know if something is wrong this year or not!
Sure, if they'll eat them, they can have 'em.
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