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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: RMDupree

Morning...

I'm gonna use that as a tagline for a while.

Can I go back to bed?


5,821 posted on 08/12/2005 7:28:00 AM PDT by JenB (Don't play with nurse sharks, vote Democrat or sue God)
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To: HairOfTheDog; Corin Stormhands; Overtaxed; RMDupree; Sam Cree; 2Jedismom; SuziQ; ...
We got new baby chickens...Black Australorps, Araucanas, Light Brahmas and Wyandottes. Got them at a week old. Tonight we have company coming...

two of the girls will be here for a "home visit" to see if we are an acceptable family...do I remove the animal pelts from our home first? :-)

We'll take pics and let you all know how it works out.

Mrsnad

5,822 posted on 08/12/2005 7:28:15 AM PDT by g'nad
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To: 2Jedismom

The Cuda that I got at ShootMoot.


5,823 posted on 08/12/2005 7:29:07 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: 2Jedismom

Gack! Ow!


5,824 posted on 08/12/2005 7:29:18 AM PDT by RosieCotton ("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: g'nad

Awwwww! Cute!


5,825 posted on 08/12/2005 7:30:01 AM PDT by RosieCotton ("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: g'nad

Monsters! What kind of pups are those?


5,826 posted on 08/12/2005 7:30:21 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: g'nad

What are those puppies?? How cute!

Did you get all pullet chicks?


5,827 posted on 08/12/2005 7:30:54 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: SuziQ

Hey, welcome home...too lazy to look back and find where the pics of your trip are...but if you could tell me, I'd love to see them.

We loved Okinawa. It was a great duity station!

Mrsnad


5,828 posted on 08/12/2005 7:31:20 AM PDT by g'nad
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To: g'nad

So adorable!

Shephard-mixes?


5,829 posted on 08/12/2005 7:31:38 AM PDT by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: JenB

Help yourself! :-D


5,830 posted on 08/12/2005 7:32:07 AM PDT by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Anatolian Shepherds


5,831 posted on 08/12/2005 7:33:15 AM PDT by g'nad
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To: g'nad

They're very ~CUTE~ little monsters! :~D


5,832 posted on 08/12/2005 7:33:53 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: 2Jedismom

All pullets...more eggses...

Mrsnad


5,833 posted on 08/12/2005 7:35:42 AM PDT by g'nad
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To: Overtaxed

I'm tellin' ya, it's a GREAT kitchen knife!! It is my all-time best knife I've ever owned in my kitchen. I keep it in my wooden butcher knife block.

Did I tell you about when Steve went to dispatch the first meat chicken? He hadn't really had an opportunity to use his knife and just had no idea how sharp it was.

Well, the directions said to make a cut from beneath the ear to under the beak.

So Steve took that chicken's head in his hand and went to make that cut and *sliced the chicken's head clean off*! He literally stumbled backward with the chicken head in his hand and nearly sat down hard. That knife sliced clean through that chicken neck like a hot knife through butter. Talk about humane...

Steve and I still talk about it...just the other day he said "It's a good thing I didn't have a finger in the way!"


5,834 posted on 08/12/2005 7:38:09 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: g'nad
WOW! They grow big!


5,835 posted on 08/12/2005 7:39:44 AM PDT by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: HairOfTheDog

They are very cute little (for now) monsters...if gnad thinks they will do well with the chickens, looks like we're getting puppies. The Anatolians are supposed to be good with animals and protective of what they "own". The only hitch is the gal bringing them wants them to be inside dogs...said we have to sign saying we'll do that. We want them out at night to keep the critters away (once they get older of course) but would love to have them down in our (non-carpeted) playroom during school and honestly, how could you ever keep our kids from constantly loving on them. It's the whole socialization thing again...only now it's dogs and not kids...

Mrsnad


5,836 posted on 08/12/2005 7:42:20 AM PDT by g'nad
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To: Lil'freeper

Where will you be? D/FW is vey hugh!


5,837 posted on 08/12/2005 7:44:23 AM PDT by Peanut Gallery
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To: RMDupree

I'm not sure who the father is, but mom is pretty bit...probably 80lbs anyway

mrsnad


5,838 posted on 08/12/2005 7:44:42 AM PDT by g'nad
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To: All

now, we're off to find some bowls, food and other assorted dog items at MFA. BBL

Mrsnad


5,839 posted on 08/12/2005 7:45:57 AM PDT by g'nad
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To: g'nad

I'd check for purple tongues!

I can only speak for myself, but anything with Chow in it isn't trustworthy with kids, IMHO.

If dad was a Shephard/Lab/Mutt, they should be terrific critters!

But man, they look like BIG TIME shedders!


5,840 posted on 08/12/2005 7:47:00 AM PDT by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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