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The Hobbit Hole XVI - Still round the corner there may wait...
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Posted on 10/05/2004 3:33:41 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Still round the corner there may wait...

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red,
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe,
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell,
Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We’ll wander back to home and bed.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed!

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To: Corin Stormhands

I am reminded of a couple homeschool families I knew who wouldn't let their kids read fiction "because of the bad stuff". The kids got stuck with biographies of martyrs and accounts of the battle of Gettysburg. I always thought there was something a little twisted about that.


3,701 posted on 10/21/2004 10:10:40 AM PDT by JenB
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To: JenB
You could use Bob...

Bob's my Dad's name. I don't wanna confuse my little sister...

3,702 posted on 10/21/2004 10:13:53 AM PDT by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: Corin Stormhands
Wife told me the other day that the Jr. Hi English teacher has a kid in her class whose Mom refuses to allow to read The Hobbit...because it's a fantasy. Kid's gonna read Pilgrim's Progress.

Heh...I'm surpised they allow 'em to read fiction at all.

3,703 posted on 10/21/2004 10:14:29 AM PDT by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: RosieCotton

Fred... Joe... Egbert... Northrup... Trevor...


3,704 posted on 10/21/2004 10:16:13 AM PDT by JenB
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To: JenB

Oops, you beat me to it.


3,705 posted on 10/21/2004 10:16:21 AM PDT by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: JenB

Egbert?

*shudder*

Gotta wonder who EVER thought that was a good idea.


3,706 posted on 10/21/2004 10:17:48 AM PDT by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: RosieCotton

No idea. Maybe Bible names? Hezekiah, Uziah, Theophilus?


3,707 posted on 10/21/2004 10:19:50 AM PDT by JenB
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To: RosieCotton

We're on the last of the Hardy Boys books the boys got for Christmas last year...A Wrinkle in Time is next and I'm SO EXCITED!

I haven't read the book in years and I'm just looking forward to reading it again. I'm thinking of reading it over the holidays and reading it to the whole family. Steve hasn't read it. He didn't read at all when he was young, they told him he was low-average, stuck him in with the ne'er-do-well types and he was just lost. I figured out after hearing him read some billboards that he was dyslexic. He had EVERYTHING turned around.

He ended up teaching Matthew to read using The Junior Phonics Game and in the process taught himself. He could read, he just didn't know HOW to read, if that makes sense.

So he missed out on some really good books because he thought he was too stupid to read.


3,708 posted on 10/21/2004 10:21:20 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (All I want is a pair of red Chuck Taylors, a classic air-cooled Beetle and a poodle. ASG)
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To: JenB

I actually worked with someone who planned to call their next son Obediah. Which I guess is better than some in the scheme of things, but...


3,709 posted on 10/21/2004 10:23:54 AM PDT by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: 2Jedismom
So he missed out on some really good books because he thought he was too stupid to read.

Crap like that really ticks me off. My mother had a sort of similar thing happen in that when she was little, she really wanted to learn to play an instrument. The music teacher at their school told her (before they even really had any classes) that she was a) totally untalented and b) incapable of learning to read music. Now...to begin with music doesn't "belong" to the talented. It's something anyone can enjoy. Secondly, she was NOT untalented! She had a very nice voice and a better ear and sense of rhythm than many of us in the family. After years of us telling her she could do it, she finally started taking cello lessons about a year before she died. She played out with us twice at church related functions and was just thrilled with it all.

It burns me up that she was deprived of that joy for so many years just because some creep of a teacher didn't like her personally or was too impatient to teach.

3,710 posted on 10/21/2004 10:29:40 AM PDT by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: 2Jedismom

Sorry for going off on a personal tangent, but...grrrrrr!


3,711 posted on 10/21/2004 10:30:04 AM PDT by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: RosieCotton

I know, sis...I know. I get a little irritated sometimes that Steve's mom let them get away with it.

Getting his masters is like a kick in the snoot.

My soup turned out yummy! I'm going to bake a nice new loaf of bread and have it ready for Steve when he gets home. He's coming home early so we can go hear Dr. Dobson.


3,712 posted on 10/21/2004 10:35:32 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (All I want is a pair of red Chuck Taylors, a classic air-cooled Beetle and a poodle. ASG)
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To: RosieCotton; 2Jedismom

The "guidance counselor" at our high school told my sister she wasn't college material. Sister felt pretty smug when she got her Masters.


3,713 posted on 10/21/2004 10:36:02 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Please God...deliver us from "President Kerry!")
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To: Corin Stormhands

I was always the last person anyone ever picked in PE for team sports. I thought of that when I crossed the finish line when I ran my marathon. 26 miles in 4 hrs 36 mins 21 seconds.

All those kids in my PE classes can blow that right out their shorts.

:-)


3,714 posted on 10/21/2004 10:38:31 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (All I want is a pair of red Chuck Taylors, a classic air-cooled Beetle and a poodle. ASG)
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To: RosieCotton

My dad was told by the music teacher in elementary school that he couldn't sing. So he won't, except in church, and it's too bad because he has a very good voice.

I like music, even if I'm not that good at it. I sing while in the car, or working at home, or walking through the parking lot (ok, that gets me some stares)


3,715 posted on 10/21/2004 10:43:09 AM PDT by JenB
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To: Corin Stormhands
(didn't want to be swimming whilst I couldn't breathe).

Yeah, I can see how that could be a problem!

Up here, I'd mulch the plants heavily, but then I have to worry about the ground freezing around the roots. I don't think y'all have that problem. Maybe you just need to clean up old branches, leaves, etc. Being from the area, OT could know better what you's need to do.

3,716 posted on 10/21/2004 10:48:06 AM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)
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To: 2Jedismom
We read to our kids every night. We run the gamut from the L'Engle books, which we did a couple of months ago, to "The Sum of All Fears" (heavily edited by the reader) in the last couple of weeks. Clare's at camp this week, so we're reading "Holes" with Joseph. It's a really good book! The movie was great, too, and closely followed the book. We won't be finished with it before Clare returns, so we'll go back to the Clancy, then finish "Holes" later. He's read it before, so he doesn't mind waiting to finish it. We'll likely continue on the Clancy track through "Debt of Honor" and "Executive Orders" after "Sum".

After those, we might pick up the C. S. Lewis space trilogy. I've never read those, and neither have the kids. SSQ just loves them.

3,717 posted on 10/21/2004 11:28:57 AM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)
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To: 2Jedismom
I get a little irritated sometimes that Steve's mom let them get away with it.

Well, she was of the generation that bought into the notion that "We're the professionals, don't try this at home". Our parents assumed that the teachers knew the correct thing to do for the kids. Thankfully, not everyone accepts that nowadays, and parents will be advocates for their children when they believe their children need help.

3,718 posted on 10/21/2004 11:34:13 AM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)
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To: SuziQ

Well, we're off on a short errand... have to find a gift for Sonya's baby shower tomorrow.

I'd really like to buy the kid a skateboard.


3,719 posted on 10/21/2004 12:10:49 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (<<<loves her hubbit and the horse he rode in on :~D)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Heh...

When is she due? I've forgotten.

Man...time flies.


3,720 posted on 10/21/2004 12:11:54 PM PDT by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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