The Hobbit Hole XX - And take the hidden paths that run...

The Freeper Hobbit Hole ^

[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

And take the hidden paths that run...

• 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...
• Seventeenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVII - A new road or a secret gate...
• Eighteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVIII - Though we pass them by today...
• Nineteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XIX - Tomorrow we may come this way...

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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[g'nad]

I can go without meat...but not good coffee.

yeeesh... tough call... those are my two main food groups...

[g'nad]

At this time three weeks from today, we will hopefully have been on the road for several hours already...

a sudden journey
down unfamiliar paths
with friends beside you
is a chance for adventure
on far off horizons...

we're with yuh darlin'...

[g'nad]

I'm waiting for the boys to get up so I can work on the blog...

lookin' forward tuh that... that is what I loved about muh old jeep... tinkerin' with it, lookin' at all the kewl stuff in catalogs... makin' it mine...

[RosieCotton]

Hopefully after the move I'll have more access to cheap beef. Don't here.

[Corin Stormhands]

mmmmmm....food groups...

[g'nad]

I am getting a new car today.

kewl... is it 4 whell drive?... whats its ground clearance?... wait... you ain't worried 'bout that... nevemind...

[RosieCotton]

'zat your writing?

[2Jedismom]

Oh, here's another supply place...one of the best, I understand, but also pricey. I think it's because it's all German.

Wolfsburg West

[RosieCotton]

Heh...that's going to (hopefully) be a difference, too. One thing I've really liked about the van, uncool as it is...is that I can actually drive over frost heaves and on back roads without bottoming out all the time.

[2Jedismom]

I actually got up in it...really up in the thing yesterday, not the tentative sitting on the front seat I did once or twice before. It was just too filthy to do so before.

The shop vac Steve brought home made all the difference. It was very powerful and just cleaned it right up.

I'll work on the pictures now.

[g'nad]

got two hours of PT (physical therapy/pain & torture) tyhis mornin... the deep tissue werk Active Release Technique (ART) is deliciously excruciatin'... muh PT says that she's never had anyone take it fer more than 15 minutes... they hit me fer an hour every week... right arm, lats, sub-scapular, traps...

in the next few months they'll start hittin' the right leg...

I know her husband... we wuz talkin' last week... she told him I wasn't quite right in the head... that she thought I enjoyed it... cuz I never cry out

she's partly right... it hurts so bad that it feels so good when it stops... I get an endorphin hit when she's werkin' on me...

[g'nad]

yup... jest made it up... not very good, but you get the point...

[SuziQ]

The Saturn Relay is cool looking; kind of a meld between a van and an SUV.

[g'nad]

mmmmmmmm... German engineering...

[RosieCotton]

I liked it!

[SuziQ]

she told him I wasn't quite right in the head...

Yeah, well... ;o)

[g'nad]

heh... folks talk about frost heaves here... ain't seen any over an inch and a half... heh, they ain't seen frost heaves...

[RosieCotton]

Heh...we wuz jokin' that they need a rating system for ours - color code or something. You see signs up before the worst of 'em, but they all just say "Bump". That can mean anything from "your car will bounce a bit" to "your vehicle is about to be eaten alive".

If you see a HOMEMADE sign, that's usually an indication of the later variety, and you'd best say yer prayers quick...

[RosieCotton]

Er...latter variety.

[g'nad]