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

[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Let them go! Let them go!

• 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.
• Twenty-second Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXII - ...Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe

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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[RMDupree]

hehehehe....true.

I'm really bummed that my trail ride is all but cancelled now. I was really looking forward to it.

Now I'll have to wait another 2 weeks before I can go again.

[SuziQ]

HUH? I know I didn't post either one of those twice. That last one was vey strange, being separated by a different post altogether.

[HairOfTheDog]

Oh - indeed... That's too bad. I hope their barn stays dry and the wind don't blow it down.

[ecurbh]

Nice job! You really do good fences.

Thank you! Everything I know about fencing, I learned from Hair. ;~D

[HairOfTheDog]

And you didn't even have to endure the learning curve.

[RMDupree]

I'm pretty sure their barn is made of tough stuff.

If it's just a tropical storm, there shouldn't be too much trouble outside of a muddy pasture.

[HairOfTheDog]

Good :~D That's a relief. I'd sure hate to try to keep horses safe with the threat of hurricanes.

[Overtaxed]

Most hurricane shelters won't take horses. :)

I remember after Flloyd, my supervisor - who was a horse person - was part of a convoy of horse trailers going down there to rescue horses stranded on hilltops. I think they had to swim the horses to where the trailers were.

[RMDupree]

They get them out if they can.

But we get tropical storms all of the time here, so the horses are acclimated to nasty thunderboomers.

[HairOfTheDog]

It'd be awful... Well, I just wouldn't do it. I wouldn't live where there are such weather extremes, either hurricanes or the super deep freeze of the upper midwest. It'd just make horsekeeping such a struggle and a worry.

[Overtaxed]

I can't remember what she said would be better....to have the horses in a sturdy barn or let them out so they wouldn't be trapped in a flooded barn. I guess you wouldn't want them in a flood zone to begin with, but Flloyd was so bad it flooded about a third of the state.

[RosieCotton]

Heh...I don't have wide feet, but I do have flat ones. Which means...pumps generally don't work for me for long at all, leastways not anything toooo tall. I'm also really clumsy in anything without a fairly sturdy heel...and most shoes like that look very clunky. But I'll look for Naturalizers!

[SuziQ]

Some of the Naturalizer dress shoes have wedge heels that are a little more stable.

[RMDupree]

*stretch*

I'm tired, folks. See you all tomorrow!

[HairOfTheDog]

With all the flying debris and just general nastiness (people can't even stand up in these storms for crying out loud) I'd never leave them out. I'd build a barn that could take it and would stay dry... If I was to live down there with horses.... which I wouldn't!

[Overtaxed]

Yeah...that's what I think. But then again how hard is it to evacuate a flooding barn?

[Ramius]

Need a concrete barn, with stalls on the second floor. :-)

[HairOfTheDog]

Depends on if the storm is still blowing. None of the options are good then.

[Ramius]

Nite nite... :-)

[HairOfTheDog]

Exactly...