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The Hobbit Hole XVII - A new road or a secret gate...
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Posted on 11/03/2004 6:16:42 PM PST by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

A new road or a secret gate...

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: osagebowman

Houston, we have a toaster oven!

:-)

They were on sale at the Family Dollar for $8! Steve said "Get it! We'll put it away in case of emergencies after we get the oven fixed!

I'm toasting a piece of bread in it now. Seems to be working! Gonna try cookies next...


5,881 posted on 12/06/2004 5:18:26 PM PST by 2Jedismom (Rejoice! rejoice! Immanuel shall come to thee, O Israel!")
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To: 2Jedismom

Congratulations!

I did a LOT of baking in one of those when I was in Germany. We weren't supposed to have anything but microwaves...but we didn't have a chow hall on base, so people kinda looked the other way when it came to things like toaster ovens and hot plates.

You can make bread and brownies and cookies in 'em...in very tiny amounts, of course! Even broiled a steak or two in it.


5,882 posted on 12/06/2004 5:20:18 PM PST 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
Hmmmm....do ya think that pop-up toasters would be jealous of toaster ovens?
5,883 posted on 12/06/2004 5:23:37 PM PST by Overtaxed
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To: RosieCotton

When Steve and I first got married, all we had was a toaster oven and a two-burner countertop grill and we did GREAT! My in-laws finally got us an oven, but we really didn't NEED it. I baked birthday cakes in it and everything. It was a Black and Decker. Sadly, at some time or another, it passed on to it's great reward up in our attic here...we tried it when the oven broke.

This one is pretty tiny...but seems to work just fine, for $8!


5,884 posted on 12/06/2004 5:23:50 PM PST by 2Jedismom (Rejoice! rejoice! Immanuel shall come to thee, O Israel!")
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To: Overtaxed

Finding out might be dangerous...


5,885 posted on 12/06/2004 5:24:19 PM PST 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: Overtaxed
I would think one would need to be discreet.
5,886 posted on 12/06/2004 5:25:36 PM PST by 2Jedismom (Rejoice! rejoice! Immanuel shall come to thee, O Israel!")
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To: RosieCotton

Maybe Guido catches the Evil Overtoaster toasting the toaster oven.


5,887 posted on 12/06/2004 5:26:12 PM PST by Overtaxed
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To: 2Jedismom
Well if both of them are sitting on the counter, it would be rather obvious.
5,888 posted on 12/06/2004 5:27:24 PM PST by Overtaxed
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To: RosieCotton

Evenin' there evellybody! [sip]

Boy... ya chatty bunch over the weekend. I think I'm mostly caught up.


5,889 posted on 12/06/2004 5:31:21 PM PST by Ramius (There's no place like 127.0.0.1)
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To: Ramius

I continue to admire your tagline!


5,890 posted on 12/06/2004 5:32:48 PM PST 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

Will it hold a large wreath? I'd tried using the gigundo suction cup type hook, but after a few days it fell off. I'll have to keep a lookout for the magnet type. We always put our wreath on the outside of the storm door, now. We had a lovely plastic boxwood wreath literally melt when it was on the steel door behind the glass storm door. It gets vey hot because the front door faces due west.


5,891 posted on 12/06/2004 5:33:56 PM PST by SuziQ (W STILL the President)
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To: Ramius; All

Anyone else following that fire in Chicago? Gosh...that has to be about the scariest thing anyone could experience, especially post 9/11.


5,892 posted on 12/06/2004 5:35:55 PM PST 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: g'nad
SSQ's Daddy died in late May of 1998, just a week after he and Granny had sold their house. They were planning to move to the coast where SSQ's older brother is a priest, and were going to live in one of the 'old folks' apartments. A week after the funeral, the moving van came, and his Mom had lost her husband of 39 years and house of 37 years.

She walked into the apartment they'd made plans to occupy and she just couldn't do it, so she moved in with George, who had an apartment at the opposite end of the rectory, that Granny and Granddaddy had been staying in whenever they'd come to visit.

When I saw her again, later that summer, she said she was really depressed at not being able to be at her own Parish and near her friends. She knew that there was no way she'd have been able to stay there by herself, the neighborhood had been deteriorating for years, but she still felt that keen sense of loss, and she couldnt' make George understand that she just wasn't interested in getting involved in his Parish.

What a blessing for your neighbor that your kids like to visit.

5,893 posted on 12/06/2004 5:42:18 PM PST by SuziQ (W STILL the President)
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To: Overtaxed

You correctin' me or Captain Kirk?


5,894 posted on 12/06/2004 5:43:09 PM PST by Corin Stormhands (These are the posts I forged in life...)
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To: Corin Stormhands; Overtaxed

Captain Kirk, I believe.

Didn't this come up before?


5,895 posted on 12/06/2004 5:43:57 PM PST 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: g'nad; Lil'freeper
Cletus means an inbred hillbilly with obvious deformations and deficiencies...

It ain't polite to talk about muh family if'n yuh don't ping me...

5,896 posted on 12/06/2004 5:44:22 PM PST by Corin Stormhands (These are the posts I forged in life...)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Hehehe....I'm correcting whoever it was that wrote it...splitting infinitives like that in public!


5,897 posted on 12/06/2004 5:46:56 PM PST by Overtaxed
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To: osagebowman; Overtaxed; Corin Stormhands; 2Jedismom; Ramius; RosieCotton; JenB; HairOfTheDog

yeah, but some of the branches wanna grow back intuh the trunk...

gotta call from the hi skrool... asked me tuh teach special ed tuhmorruh... I said yes... what the hell wuz I thinkin'?...

actually, the only reason I said yes was because the teacher I'm subbin' fer is takin' her boy tuh the MEPS station... headed fer boot camp... least I could do...


5,898 posted on 12/06/2004 5:47:37 PM PST by g'nad
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To: Overtaxed

What's a little grammar when you can make warp speed?


5,899 posted on 12/06/2004 5:48:04 PM PST by Corin Stormhands (These are the posts I forged in life...)
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To: Overtaxed; RosieCotton

The cookies turned out vey good! Just sugar cookies from a tube, but the kids love 'em. The house has that cookie-baking smell!


5,900 posted on 12/06/2004 5:48:34 PM PST by 2Jedismom (Rejoice! rejoice! Immanuel shall come to thee, O Israel!")
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