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The Hobbit Hole XXIII - Let them go! Let them go!

Posted on 07/12/2005 8:11:36 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Let them go! Let them go!

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: 2Jedismom

You bought trays and stuff? Fascinating!


3,381 posted on 07/30/2005 1:17:14 PM PDT by RosieCotton (Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: RosieCotton

Naw, I'm using recycled black tv dinner trays that I got when I bought some Swanson's Hungryman TV dinners.

I'll buy and re-use the trays if this works ok. This is just the experimental mode...the prototype, so to speak.

I wish you could get the compartmentalized aluminum trays like the used to come in, but I can't find any just like them. They have some on Ebay that are actually for TV dinners, but I don't want to spend $20 on a few trays.

I'll have to settle for carry-out type trays.


3,382 posted on 07/30/2005 1:21:11 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: 2Jedismom

what on earth are thrips?


3,383 posted on 07/30/2005 1:25:25 PM PDT by JenB
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To: JenB
"Thrips are 1/20” long insects with fringed wings. They are yellow to dark brown. Thrips present on fruit at harvest bother consumers and contaminate harvested berries."


3,384 posted on 07/30/2005 1:44:15 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: JenB

They look like mites except they fly...very very tiny. The ones on my blackberries were yellow and they were just crawling with them. You couldn't just rinse them off because they were all down in the blackberries.


3,385 posted on 07/30/2005 1:45:31 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: 2Jedismom

Gross. Nasty little things.


3,386 posted on 07/30/2005 1:46:52 PM PDT by JenB
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To: JenB

And they bite. They feel like a little itch just out of nowhere, because you can hardly see them.

The worst experience I've ever had with them was when we were drying our clothes on the line and Matthew was a newborn...they got all in the clothes and when we put them on him they were biting him and we didn't know it. He would cry and wiggle and broke out in a rash. I had no idea what the problem was and the doctor didn't either and prescribed hydrocortisone cream.

Then, sitting in church, I was holding him in a blanket and I saw them...all in his blanket. I literally jumped up and ran out and took all his clothes off him.

I still get a sick feeling over that...


3,387 posted on 07/30/2005 1:50:11 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: JenB

Yeah...we hates them, precious.

Gotta go, Steve said he'd be home by four and it's about 5 minutes till.

See ya!


3,388 posted on 07/30/2005 1:52:50 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: 2Jedismom

You'd think they'd sell aluminum trays at the grocery that would work...but I guess they just sell those plastic picnic plates.

We used to have ceramic compartmentalized plates. Dad hated 'em...thought they were silly. I imagine those could go in the oven...but maybe not right after the freezer! Guess not.


3,389 posted on 07/30/2005 2:01:11 PM PDT by RosieCotton (Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Corin Stormhands

What does a non-recluse spider wear under its kilt?


3,390 posted on 07/30/2005 2:14:52 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (First adjust, then avenge.)
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To: RosieCotton
There's a fawncy-pawnts store in the BIG mall here that's fun to look in (incredibly, I found a coupla useful camping items there) that sells fine china (maybe just porcelain) compartmented dinner plates.

So there's your "more money than brains" thing when it comes to some people.

3,391 posted on 07/30/2005 2:20:49 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (First adjust, then avenge.)
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To: 2Jedismom
You like your food segregated?

I can't even eat. The food keeps touching. I like military plates, I'm a military man, I want a military meal. I want my string beans to be quarantined! I like a little fortress around my mashed potatoes so the meatloaf doesn't invade my mashed potatoes and cause mixing in my plate! I HATE IT when food touches! I'm a military man, you understand that? And don't let your food touch either, please?

3,392 posted on 07/30/2005 2:30:51 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Help us support our troops! - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: HairOfTheDog; 2Jedismom

Heh....I hate it when food runs into my other food.


3,393 posted on 07/30/2005 3:44:28 PM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: HairOfTheDog
Winmag, I think we should remember to add these FReepers to the ping list you use for your product and report updates that you post here, and ecurbh too, when he posts the emails.

You could do me a hugh favor by maintaining a ping list for me that I could just paste into the "to" field. Just email me a new text file every once in a while. Thanks.

3,394 posted on 07/30/2005 3:52:03 PM PDT by 300winmag (FR's Hobbit Hole supports America's troops)
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To: 2Jedismom

Nope no thrips. Just some grass clippings and those wash off. The cobbler looks great and the fried green maters were purty darn good. Big'ol ate his with ketchup, I had them with ranch dressing. Muy bien! Might have them again soon because I have several green maters that were shaken loose.


3,395 posted on 07/30/2005 3:59:49 PM PDT by Lil'freeper
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To: 300winmag; Ramius; g'nad; Sam Cree; HairOfTheDog

Evening Gentlemen-was able to partake of a great gunshow here. The summer show draws large numbers of high quality dealers and this year there were over 100 displays and 550 tables of assorted weaponries. Darn near sensory overload.

There was a fine display of US Military weapons, one was all the variations of the M-1, another Shotguns, including our favorites, M-97 and M-12 through current.

For the fans of older stuff, there is group that had a display of Lewis and Clark accoutrements, showcasing their air rifles. Learned quite a bit since I knew the gentleman and he likes to visit. They have made several, duplicating the originals, and are taking orders but at the price of new car I was content to look and listen. Those early airrifles were quite impressive.

Similar displays of cartridge coversion colt police models and SW No.3 revolvers most of the SW revolvers being historically attributed.

Got a great walnut flag case for our flag. The right sized for the way it's folded. Didn't know there were two sizes of cases, one for funeral flags and one for regular flags. I knew the ones I usually saw were too big, but didn't know why.


3,396 posted on 07/30/2005 4:09:07 PM PDT by osagebowman ((Help us support our troops! - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/))
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To: RMDupree

Evening Ruthie: Those are great pics of the trailride. Yes, it looks like Becky has a new friend all right. Sounds the ride was a real adventure, btw, doesn't anyone where cowboy hats anymore?


3,397 posted on 07/30/2005 4:11:58 PM PDT by osagebowman ((Help us support our troops! - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/))
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To: Corin Stormhands; Lil'freeper

Evening, yes, artificial Christmas trees are our friend as well. Our luck with buying one fresh enough to last through New Years has dwindled over the years till we took one down the day after Christmas since it was loosing so many needles. The artifical tree takes that worry off the plate and the wire branches allow for more ornate and unusual ornaments which we tend to favor now.


3,398 posted on 07/30/2005 4:15:30 PM PDT by osagebowman ((Help us support our troops! - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/))
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To: ExGeeEye

Evening, the plastic plates in my camping set have the comparments, three as I recall but I don't know how well they would hold up to microwaves or heat. They certainly are tough, I've had em for , well a long time. :-)


3,399 posted on 07/30/2005 4:18:47 PM PDT by osagebowman ((Help us support our troops! - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/))
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To: Overtaxed

Evening OT - see previous post on air rifles. :-)


3,400 posted on 07/30/2005 4:20:26 PM PDT by osagebowman ((Help us support our troops! - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/))
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