The Hobbit Hole XXII - ...Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

...Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe

• 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...
• Twentieth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XX - And take the hidden paths that run...
• Twenty-first Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXI - ...Towards the Moon or to the Sun.

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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[Penny1]

Sounds like you're in for another fun-filled day!

[Corin Stormhands]

I wish we were there. We did get the truck so we can trail ride this weekend... just to remember why we gave it up.

Personally the way things are going, I'm currently trying to decide what hallucinogen I'll be partaking this evening.

Nothing major. Just the same ol' Corin stuff, which is why I'm not there either. Just seems like it's all here today.

But I've talked to a couple of co-workers, they're thinking the same thing today. Must be something in the water.

Too bad it's not gin.

[HairOfTheDog]

SLOE gin :~D

[Corin Stormhands]

But, of course. ;-)

s'weird. Everybody around here is sayin' it's a wacky day.

[HairOfTheDog]

Hope it's not wacky here... we're goin' trail riding tonight!

[Corin Stormhands]

That's no reason to kilt the thread...

[Penny1]

I think the HH will be a bit quiet from here on out with folks bein' off at Shootmoot. We will just have to entertain ourselves in between the pictures of all the fun being had...

[Corin Stormhands]

ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

It's National Doughnut Day!

[Corin Stormhands]

so much for thinking those were animated sirens...

[HairOfTheDog]

I was out with the horse shoer!

Now I have to go make my honey a sammich. He's rushing home here real quick during lunch for an errand, and I'm gonna hand him a sammich through the window when he goes by.

[Pippin]

Doughnuts?

Doughnuts!

Where's the doughnuts?

[Overtaxed]

The Quest has failed.

I'm leaving the house now....see ya soon!

[Corin Stormhands]

You should get the "Perfect Attendance Award" since you're the only one to make all three Major-Moots.

[HairOfTheDog]

That's true! She has mooted well above the call of duty.

[Corin Stormhands]

Perhaps it's because she never gave in to the power of the SHOOOOOEESSS...

[LSAggie]

OB and OT left at 1424 hours in an evil SUV filled with equipment and substanance. Gypsy and I are here, with the shotgun and the Brach's Bridge Mix, guarding the homestead against any and all invaders.

[HairOfTheDog]

Funny email from my dad. He has squirrels that come right up and look in his windows when they want fed. It's quite a sight.

Probably only a matter of time but had a squirrel-in-the-house event.

Do you know that a squirrel who finds itself inside a house in a squirrel oops-moment, can run so fast it stops being a squirrel running fast and instead turns into a gray blur? I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything move so fast.

The event began by me going out onto the deck and turning around at the same moment that a squirrel came running up the stairs on the T____ side, and apparently seeing me in his intended path instantly diverted through the open slider. Ooops… Once inside he went into panic mode and flew into [Ramius's] room and I zipped over and scooped up Josie and ran her downstairs and closed the door. When I came back up he came back out of [Ramius's] room and in a flash went across the living room and – as it turned out but I couldn’t tell at the time – went back out through the slider. Took me a long time to figure out that yes, he had made back outside.

A curious part of this is Josie had been asleep on a dining room chair, woke up from the squirrel running right past the chair she was sleeping on, and only raised her head and looked at the squirrel with no apparent attempt to move or get up, let alone chase it - even inside the house. Weird cat….

[Corin Stormhands]

We haven't had any squirrels quite that brave. But we've had some birds look in the window when the feeder is empty. And there's a bird (I think it's a bluejay) that puts up a fuss when I'm out there and the feeder is empty.

[HairOfTheDog]

That's the system this squirrel has worked out with my dad... he shows up at the window, and dad runs out and puts peanuts in the feeder.

[HairOfTheDog]

I thought the grey squirrel blur running through the house was a funny image ;~D