The Hobbit Hole XXIV - Sand and Stone and Pool and Dell...

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Sand and Stone and Pool and Dell...

• 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
• Twenty-third Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXIII - 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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[2Jedismom]

Every Tuesday. Yep, it's homeschooled kids. There were oh, 6-7 kids in it and 2 of them were boys Joshua's age!

[osagebowman]

My sister put my nephew in gymnastics at a fairly early age after his publik skool teachers suggested drugs to calm down his natural energy. He was a natural too, did gymnastics all the way through high school and ended up getting a scholarship to a university on their gymnastics team. Kept it up through university and made 2nd place in some NCAA finals several years ago. Don't know where he got his skills (certainly not from my side of the family!!), but it is a great sport. Congratulations!! LSA

[Overtaxed]

Voted no...hehehe...

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I looked up that thread you referred to... it was actually somewhat horrifying to read.

Not the kind of thing to increase my desire to stick around FR.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I'm sorry your second surgery didn't go as well as the first. Will be thinking of you and hoping that it all turns out all right!

[2Jedismom]

Joshua is just so fearless! To come around the corner and see him clear up at the top of the hall with his head pressed up against the ceiling (you know, with one hand and foot on either side of the hall walls) is rather unnerving (I made him promise that he wouldn't do it without me spotting him!) And flipping into the pool doing a backward handstand on the side of the pool (softsided pool, mind you) was extremely nerve-wracking (he could only do it with me standing there and only when he was showing someone.)

[HairOfTheDog]

Not the kind of thing to increase my desire to stick around FR.

Don't stay ~or~ leave for them.

Stay because Corin and I love you :~D

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

see him clear up at the top of the hall with his head pressed up against the ceiling

He didn't happen to have an encounter with a radioactive spider when he was younger, did he?

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

The folks here in the Hobbit Hole are pretty much the only reason I stick around.

It's a fine fellowship, indeed.

[HairOfTheDog]

We're better than a kick in the pants. :~D

[JenB]

Yeah, we're nice!

Does Rose not like us any more? Cuz I've missed seeing her around and I need to bug her into doing NaNo with us. I'm gonna bug until I get more people than last year.

[2Jedismom]

Heh!! It's a thought!

[2Jedismom]

Or a poke in the eye with a sharp stick?

[HairOfTheDog]

Yes, I think most of us are also better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. ;~D

[2Jedismom]

Well, we ate the crock pot meal...it was fantastic. Joshua actually said "This tastes so good I could cry." LOL!!

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

She's been spending a lot of time sending out resumes, plotting her story, and playing Age of Empires.

I think she plans to do the NaNo thing.

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, we ate the crock pot meal...it was fantastic.

Hey - this is a family thread.

[HairOfTheDog]

~wonders why she posted that to Bear instead of 2J...~

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I was kinda scratching my head about that too...

[HairOfTheDog]

I got my futtons bangled.