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The Hobbit Hole XXIV - Sand and Stone and Pool and Dell...
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Posted on 08/24/2005 9:50:25 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Sand and Stone and Pool and Dell...

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: osagebowman

Hehehe.....you need gypsygirl to pick your restaurants for you.


2,321 posted on 09/05/2005 2:55:30 PM PDT by Overtaxed (New Orleans is a quagmire. Bring our troops home!)
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To: Overtaxed

Heh, she understands when go out and come back with a box, there's a treat inside. The person carrying the box gets her undivided attention (until the treat is made available that is).


2,322 posted on 09/05/2005 2:59:38 PM PDT by osagebowman ((Help us support our troops! - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/))
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To: Lil'freeper; HairOfTheDog; g'nad; Corin Stormhands; SuziQ; JenB; RosieCotton; All

Well, I'm back.

It didn't go as expected.

First off, I thought we were going to camp Gruber, an hour and half or so away, to deal with about 2K evacuees. In fact, we were going to Falls Creek Baptist encampment to prepare it for about 35K evacuees. No problem. After we get to going I find out it's about 4 hours away. That's ok too! I was riding in the church van.

So we drive out there and on the way it was fantastic...just exciting as can be! From OKC down to Falls Creek (about a 2 hour drive) it was one Baptist van or bus after another heading down there to help out. Baptists from every part of Oklahoma! Also, Oklahoma Food Bank trucks...18-wheelers...hauling food and the Army National Guard caravaning down there with what looked like medical supply trucks.

So we finally arrived and it's literally bumper to bumper traffic going in...hundreds and hundreds of people. (We had over 50 people in just our group.) But as fast as we were going in, people were coming out! What gives? Why was everyone leaving?

So we finally got up to the gate...the entrance to the encampment and can you guess? FEMA had shut it down to volunteers! Apparently FEMA was overwhelmed with so many volunteers that they asked the BGCO to restrict it to 500 people and they managed to keep it down to 600! We had to turn back!

As we left, we stopped at a fried pie place (that's a big thing here in Oklahoma...fresh homemade fried pies) right at the turn-off to the encampment. And not just us, but several different churches stopped and used the fried pie place bathroom and of course bought fried pies. (The poor elderly fried pie lady was cranking 'em out as fast as she could, with her grown kids helping her like an assembly line and her husband, in a wheel chair, manning the cash register!)

So after everyone went to the bathroom and bought a fried pie (I had a coconut cream fried pie...hot), we all met...all these churches, in the fried pie parking lot. That's when we found out that there were SIXTY busloads of evacuees in route to Falls Creek. Something like 3,000 people coming.

So we started praying, all of us. It was awesome. We prayed for half an hour in that parking lot!

Afterward everyone visited for a bit then we all loaded up in our buses and vans and went home. I'm exhausted from all the driving and feel regret that I didn't actually participate...but I still feel pretty good.


2,323 posted on 09/05/2005 3:04:16 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: osagebowman

Sweet gig!


2,324 posted on 09/05/2005 3:05:33 PM PDT by Overtaxed (New Orleans is a quagmire. Bring our troops home!)
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To: Lil'freeper; HairOfTheDog; g'nad; Corin Stormhands; SuziQ; JenB; RosieCotton; All

Not 35K...3500 people.


2,325 posted on 09/05/2005 3:05:46 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: 2Jedismom

Well that sounds more exciting than straightening out the garage!


2,326 posted on 09/05/2005 3:08:48 PM PDT by Overtaxed (New Orleans is a quagmire. Bring our troops home!)
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To: Overtaxed

LOL! Yeah...it was pretty exciting and just unbelievably moving to see all the aid heading in one direction!


2,327 posted on 09/05/2005 3:10:34 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: 2Jedismom

Hate to think about what it cost to fill all those buses up just to have them turn around.


2,328 posted on 09/05/2005 3:17:23 PM PDT by Overtaxed (New Orleans is a quagmire. Bring our troops home!)
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To: 2Jedismom

Sorry 2J - Sounds very exciting and then eventually disappointing. You know... right now people are very keyed up to help. If they indeed have to remain in these shelters a while, I wouldn't be surprised that in a week or two, they could very much need your help when the volunteers they have now have done their part and gone home.


2,329 posted on 09/05/2005 3:19:01 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: osagebowman
gypsygirl was quite impressed with her doggie bag (box}.

Oooh, lucky girl!

2,330 posted on 09/05/2005 3:19:17 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: osagebowman

Thanks... not sure what to hope for right now!


2,331 posted on 09/05/2005 3:20:13 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: 2Jedismom

You DID participate, except you did it with prayer.


2,332 posted on 09/05/2005 3:21:44 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Overtaxed

I know it was probably a blow to some of the smaller congregations...I'm not too worried about ours though. Did you hear we were going to take up a collection to buy an 18-wheeler with a mobile kitchen? We had to collect $11,000 *just* for the mobile kitchen. (The BGCO paid the rest.) We did it!

BGCO = Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma

We don't take up a collection using collection plates in my church...we have wooden boxes at every entryway that you can drop your tithe or contribution in. Boxes about the size of a large countertop microwave, I guess.

Yesterday, after the second service, people were stuffing their gift in...literally cramming it into the boxes because they were so full! People gave above and beyond.


2,333 posted on 09/05/2005 3:26:34 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: 2Jedismom

Sorry the trip fizzled. Curious about those pies, though. Got a recipe??? (I'm craving carbs.)


2,334 posted on 09/05/2005 3:30:15 PM PDT by Lil'freeper
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To: HairOfTheDog

That's right...and the people in the general area will be the ones to step up to that plate and I really believe they're up to the task...it was awesome to behold.

Tulakogee is another encampment about an hour south of here, that's where we'll likely be helping out the most, evacuees are coming there too, only a few hundred.

The evacuees were not even at Falls Creek yet, we were just going to help prepare the facilities.

They just had a lady on the news that is at Camp Gruber and she was tickled to death. Said "Everyone is so nice!"


2,335 posted on 09/05/2005 3:30:33 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: SuziQ

Yep! It was great! None of us felt all that bad!


2,336 posted on 09/05/2005 3:31:13 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: 2Jedismom
We had to collect $11,000 *just* for the mobile kitchen. (The BGCO paid the rest.) We did it!

Wonderful!!

2,337 posted on 09/05/2005 3:32:42 PM PDT by Lil'freeper
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To: 2Jedismom

You should feel good about it - you all were there, ready to help. Wasn't your fault that the FEMA folks weren't ready for so much good will.

This will be a long term operation. I would be surprised if the BGCO isn't there for six months to a year. They will likely be rotating volunteers throughout the period.


2,338 posted on 09/05/2005 3:32:48 PM PDT by osagebowman ((Help us support our troops! - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/))
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To: osagebowman

Yep...

I laughed out loud when I saw the military on one side of the highway, caravaning along and a whole buncha Baptists on the other side, heading all in the same direction!

Whoda thunk it.


2,339 posted on 09/05/2005 3:35:59 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: SuziQ; Overtaxed

Heh, she has a pretty good deal now, but in her case, it wasn't always so nice. We're glad we were able to adopt a dog like her. She is a sweet dog.


2,340 posted on 09/05/2005 3:36:39 PM PDT by osagebowman ((Help us support our troops! - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/))
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