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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[RosieCotton]

Don't forget the St. Christopher clip for the sun visor! ;-)

You'll be OK...though I admit I did have my sister with me. She didn't so much navigate as talk me out of panic mode when required. It wasn't nearly as bad as I imagined it'd be, though.

[Overtaxed]

Miss Cat chews sometimes but mostly, she licks.

[JenB]

Yup, we got that! Talon is a licensed NRA safety instructor dude, and g'nad acted as our range master. When we were doing handgun practice, we had three targets and three supervisors. I think the only way we could have been safer would have been to not load the guns, and where's the fun in that.

Heh, we got our choice of about fifteen lovely pieces of deadliness.

[HairOfTheDog]

Coincidentally, the first full day ecurbh and I spent together, we went shooting.

[Overtaxed]

Any lurkers try to make a surprise appearance? ;-D

Not with all the live ammo going off around there. :)

[RosieCotton]

The downside was that now I want abunchagunz.

*sigh*

[cyborg]

What an interesting first meeting! LOL

[JenB]

You know that sign g'nad has that says "Trespassers will be killed and eaten"?

Yeah.

Don't think anything happened... I suggested kidnapping thegirl but even though Rosie loves her more than I do, she thought it would be unwise to kidnap the daughter of a man who has his own arsenal. And hundreds of acres on which to hide a body.

[HairOfTheDog]

It seemed an odd dimension for a coop.

[RosieCotton]

Heh...yeah. Wonder what the neighbors thought.

[Petronski]

On that run, once east of the NJ line by about 10-15 miles, it unwinds into an easy, roomy, non-aggressive run.

The tough part is the mixmaster at Throgs Neck in the Bronx. Even then, not too bad.

Keep to the upper deck on the GW and the express on the 95 in Jersey.

If a country mouse like me can handle it, anyone can.

[HairOfTheDog]

It builds trust fast ;~D

[mstar]

Family lookin good!

Japan, ... in July! Have you been there before? Sounds like you and family are doin' gooood.

Terry is in Indiana, then Mexico next week. Aimee' and I are going to drive down to Galveston tom for a day or so. She is going back to Calif to finsh up what little she needs to graduate. The school gave her scholorships, so it's a go. So we are going to try to have some good times before she is gone again.

[Overtaxed]

There's a shootin' range not too far from me...Wednesday is Ladies Night.

[Overtaxed]

Probably thought we had our own range war goin' on.

[RosieCotton]

We're realizing we don't know the apartment complex's rule on firearms.

I can't imagine they forbid 'em entirely...but maybe I'm naive. Just seems like it'd be too hard to enforce in this kinda area.

I just want a .22 rifle and a smallish revolver. Is that so much to ask? Hmm...

[HairOfTheDog]

Did you ladies have to clean the guns afterwards? Did you find the smell of Hoppe's No.9 to be as sensual as I do?

[Petronski]

Sounds like a pretty good size pen for a couple fat chickens, though. They sound like heavy bastards, and if that's the case, a short "fence" would do. Let'em pick out dough and feed in a controlled range.

[cyborg]

I'll say! LOL I'll try to remember not to point the gun in his general direction.

[JenB]

No, the men chivalrously set up and tore down. We cleaned shrimp.