The Hobbit Hole XVII - A new road or a secret gate...

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

A new road or a secret gate...

• 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!)
• Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On...
• Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...
• Sixth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...

• Seventh Thread: The Hobbit Hole VII - But not yet weary are our feet...
• Eighth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we may meet...
• Ninth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IX - A sudden tree or standing stone
• Tenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole X - That none have seen but we alone.
      Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
• Twelfth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XII - Tree and flower and leaf and grass
• Thirteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XIII - Let them pass! Let them pass!
• Fourteenth thread: The Hobbit Hole XIV - Hill and Water Under Sky
• Fifteenth thread: The Hobbit Hole XV - Pass them by! Pass them by!
• Sixteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVI - 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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[JenB]

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch, you know...

Morning. My legs are sore, which is good. My word count is ok. But I do not want to get moving this morning. Can't I just sit here and...

[RosieCotton]

Yer makin' me feel guilty...I need to get out those weights again!

But first I need to straighten up that room so I even have space to exercise. I've been awfully lazy lately. Blame writing...though it's not really the whole story.

My character is starting to fall for the guy, though she's not admitting it even to herself yet.

I'm already sold.

[RosieCotton]

Gotten in 450 words between various stuff this morning. Considering the afternoon is lookin' like it's going to be pretty quiet (break is coming up after tomorrow and things are really winding down already), I may get twice that. I hope...

[JenB]

Well, congrats!

I have decided to take a trip to the used bookstore. Sell some of my old stuff and look for Christmas presents... I only have a month before I'm going home, so I need to be all shopped up by then.

I should be able to get my word count in this evening, though. I hope. I was going to do extra last night, but... well, I got home and felt like watching a bloody and sad video.

[Overtaxed]

The insulation guys are here and I'm putting up stuff so I can move more stuff in.

[Overtaxed]

Hmmmm.....found some ice cream cones in the garage...along with a big box of nails that had never been used. Anyone want a Kansas City Chiefs poster?

[RosieCotton]

Insulation is good...always nice not having to freeze to death.

[RosieCotton]

I still have Indy 500 posters in my basement. Some other kinda car racing, too, but I can't remember what!

The guy who lived there before me was really into racing...also built model cars. The room that's now my bedroom still has marks on the wall because he had shelves on every wall and dozens of cars. Kinda wish I still had the shelves...I'd just use 'em for other stuff!

[Overtaxed]

Yay! Found my Pyrex measuring cup!

[HairOfTheDog]

I am definately too much in some areas, but not that one! Waiting to hear from you!

[TalonDJ]

Mornin mornin.
Ah, two days of PDR... loads of fun. At least I don't have to present. I will probably skip out on most of it. Being low on the totem-pole does have some perks. So it is back to ASIC requirements, woo hoo and stuff.

[HairOfTheDog]

Good morning everyone!

[TalonDJ]

All them Mauser action rifles look the same durn near. Sweet rig though. I need me something in 30ish caliber. I want an M14 but have not got 140k pennies handy.
All I have big is my 44mag winchester that does NOT weight anything and kicks like a mule.

[JenB]

PDR? Does that have anything to do with TPS reports?

[hiredhand]

All them Mauser action rifles look the same durn near. Sweet rig though. I need me something in 30ish caliber. I want an M14 but have not got 140k pennies handy.

All I have big is my 44mag winchester that does NOT weight anything and kicks like a mule.

Oooohhh...yeah! M14!. I'm "thinking" about picking up an M1A or DSA SA-58 (FAL) after the first of the year. I'm torn between the two, and then I have to get "management buy off" on it. :-). I'm hoping though! I love .30 cal rifles. :-) ....yes....I hear ya about the pain of the price. Whether I go bottom line M1A, or a decent DSA FAL, it's gonna run over a grand....OUCH!

A buddy of minehere at work has as one of those Ruger semi-autos chambered for the .44 Mag. It "looks" like a 10/22, until you peek down the (nearly) half inch hole in the end of the barell. :-). THAT thing gives your arm a healthy WHACK, but it's fun to shoot!

That Mauser in the photo with Pudge boy kicks less than my Rem M-700 .243. :-).

[SuziQ]

What kind of brushes did you get, LF? I'm fixing to ship some stockings that my Girl Scouts filled last night, and I wanted to put a little something more in them.

[SuziQ]

The pub where we had the session last week wants us back! Cool..

They like you! They really like you!!

That's great for y'all. I hope you have a great time. I'm enjoying the CD you sent me.

[JenB]

Hi Suzi! What're you up to?

[Lil'freeper]

A whole variety- from toothbrushes, to under-yer-fingernail brushes, to household cleaning brushes. It just ocurred to me that leeeeetle crafty paintbrushes might be called for, too.

[SuziQ]

I'll go to the odd lots store today to see what's available. A friend whose husband works for a large company that makes sports equipment just dropped of some ballpoint pens and lanyards. I had written her the other night asking her to see if he had any smallish things that could be stuffed into the stockings. These are really nice items, and I'll have plenty of them. She also dropped off some drawings that her 6 yr. old daughter had done for the 'armies'. Patty said she didn't even realize her daughter knew anything about the war, but kids pick stuff up even when we don't realize it. Her little girl wanted to send them to some soldiers, but Patty didn't know to whom to send them. I assured her that I would send her daughter's letters, and I'll take a picture of them with the stockings before they're sent and I'll send a picture to her daughter.

I'm thinking I'll also put a disposable camera and a York Photo mailer in the box so that the soldiers can take some pictures when they receive the stockings and I can have them in my York account to show my girls. I'll ask him to take a picture of some 'armies' with Patty's daughter's letters so I can print out a nice photo for her to show her that they did, in fact, receive her letters. I'll even send one of those pictures to the newspaper!