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

http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/ ^

[Corin Stormhands]

XGI, don't you have access to Chat?

I'm not a keeper of the keys. But I know someone who is.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Even though I didn't watch, it was fun watching the rest of you chat about it.

[JenB]

You weren't watching? Well, glad you kept company anyway.

[Corin Stormhands]

It froze up my whole computer several times near the end. It was a pain.

But I enjoyed the chatting. We should do something like that on a semi-regular basis.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

We watched the first game of the college world series... Texas beat Florida, 4-2.

[HairOfTheDog]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FR_Hobbit_Hole/

If you click to join, one of us will get the notification and let you in.

[SuziQ]

I had gone for over an hour to get Clare, and the chat was still going when I got back. Then right at the very end, it booted me. Go figure.

[JenB]

Oh, baseball?

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Yup, NCAA basebell... Game 2 is tomorrow afternoon. If Texas wins again, they're the champions!

[300winmag]

I received a freepmail from Corin the other day about the son of a classmate who's going through Marine bootcamp right now. He needs some encouragement, and since he wants to be a helo crewchief, this will be waiting for him at home for encouragement: the first (and maybe only) Hobbit Hole aircrew knife...

It's made by Gerber, in the USA, and is just about the slickest, most luxurious aircrew knife I have ever seen. A zillion adapters for MOLLE and velcro, a vinyl-coated sheath for quiet, great blade design, and a separate line/seatbelt cutter. The soft plastic handle is electrically insulated from the blade, and the steel buttcap. The buttcap can be used to crack plexiglas canopies, hammer, or crush skulls. Oh, and the slot in the sheath is a carbide sharpener.

The knife doesn't seem too big, which is important for anyone in a helo, where space is limited. But it compares favorably in size to our Hobbit Hole Camillus BK2, which is actually a big moose of a knife, when you see it up close.

It's a really elegant, well-thought-out tool. If I could get these at a discount, I could see giving a lot away to happy troops.

[300winmag]

Ping to the previous post

[Overtaxed]

But I enjoyed the chatting. We should do something like that on a semi-regular basis.

Everybody should rent the Rankin Bass version one weekend.... :)

[HairOfTheDog]

Everybody should rent the Rankin Bass version one weekend.... :)

If all of us rented that at the same time, it would double the view statistics for the movie for the whole year!

[Overtaxed]

...and really ruin the data for someone who doesn't have anything better to do. :)

Good morning! [sip]

[HairOfTheDog]

~sip~

[osagebowman]

Morning Winmag - that is a great looking knife. Haven't seen one like it before.

[osagebowman]

Morning - warming up out there, got to admit the a/c does feel good. A bit more gardening to do yet this a.m.

We have several volunteer cannas that will moving to a different planting bed; don't know how they feel about it but there is present locations in the vegetable garden and the herb garden is not my idea of good spot. Got the miracle grow mixed to water them in.

[Overtaxed]

Morning!

Today's experiment is all the glass doors closed on the sunroom, the sliding glass door to the house opened.

Should do some gardening this morning but I'm just too lazy. :)

[sip]

[osagebowman]

Have the thermometers been calibrated? Time and Temp charts ready? Are planning on factoring humidity and wind speed/direction?

Inquiring minds want to know. :-)

[Overtaxed]

hehehe....no. Just got a little alkyhol thermometer sitting out there.