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The Hobbit Hole XXV - Fare you well! Fare you well!
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Posted on 10/15/2005 7:13:08 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Fare you well! Fare you well!
New verse:
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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! |
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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! |
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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: HairOfTheDog
1,701
posted on
10/26/2005 9:34:45 PM PDT
by
Ramius
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To: HairOfTheDog
Hey, Hair ... is the equine flu mostly a three-week annoyance, or can it get serious?
To: Rose in RoseBear
Good heavens... horse flu? Yeesh... bird flu... dog flu...
We don't have to worry about a fish flu do we? :-)
1,703
posted on
10/26/2005 9:55:30 PM PDT
by
Ramius
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To: Ramius
Old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly flu?
1,704
posted on
10/26/2005 9:57:33 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: JenB; Ramius; HairOfTheDog
<snicker>
I need a way to prevent shipment of a group of horses from the same barn. Don't want to hurt the horses in any way, just want them kept in place. Like a human with a bad cold; you eventually recover, but for a few days you don't want to do much more than stay in bed.
To: Rose in RoseBear
Equine Leprosy. Makes their tails fall off, maybe drop a leg here and there. Wouldn't want that to spread.
:-)
1,706
posted on
10/26/2005 10:37:05 PM PDT
by
Ramius
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To: Ramius
You're feisty tonight!
How are you? Are you settled for a while, or do you have to get on another plane?
1,707
posted on
10/26/2005 10:42:09 PM PDT
by
Rose in RoseBear
(HHD [... leaving (again) on a jet plane? ...])
To: Rose in RoseBear
The new "horse flu" they are talking about I don't know a lot about. There are several strains of influenza in horses and most horses are vaccinated for the common ones, outbreaks are rare in well cared for stock.
But a common outbreak that can affect a whole barn is Strangles. The vaccine is short lived and not 100% and they routinely quarantine barns that have a case show up.
West Nile Virus Is also going around, but it's a mosquito born illness... not a horse-to horse illness... so a quarantine doesn't make a lot of sense.
I'd go with Strangles.
1,708
posted on
10/26/2005 10:44:45 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
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To: Rose in RoseBear
...dont' mean to be feisty.... :-)
Sometimes it just happens. Not proud of it. :-)
I'm still unsettled. In da 'hotel in SF tonight. Going to da office tomorrow for a couple of hours, but then to the airport for the afternoon to do the airplane thing.
Good news is that I get to stay home for a whole week after this. Yippee Ki-ay... or something. :-)
1,709
posted on
10/26/2005 10:47:08 PM PDT
by
Ramius
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To: All
1,710
posted on
10/26/2005 10:49:58 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
I'd go with Strangles. Suitably icky-sounding.
1,711
posted on
10/26/2005 10:52:52 PM PDT
by
Ramius
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To: HairOfTheDog
I considered strangles, but ... geez! It's soooo bad, and icky contagious!
However ...
This group of horses has been gathered from several different places. They're being assembled at one location, then each will be sent off to a different destination. If one horse has it, and that horse arrives with it, then they could all be kept under observation for 7-10 days. That's about the right length of time.
Thanks, Hair! I hope to be able to say "No animals were killed during the plotting of this novel!"
1,712
posted on
10/26/2005 11:04:23 PM PDT
by
Rose in RoseBear
(HHD [... all animal hurts will be healed by the end of the story ...])
To: Ramius
That's why you're so feisty! You're in the Evil Place!
You'll settle down when you get home.
You'll have to make room for me on the deck ... does it get foggy?
1,713
posted on
10/26/2005 11:07:21 PM PDT
by
Rose in RoseBear
(HHD [... Gig Harbor is a very pretty place! ...])
To: Rose in RoseBear
Miss Rose... there is always room for you on the deck... :-) Any time.
And oh, yes... it gets wonderfully foggy. Especially on fall and winter mornings. So thick you can't even see the end of the dock. Then it lifts about ten-ish. What's cool is that it lifts slowly so that the other side (the island across the way) appears under the cloud first... then the edges... and the sky not for quite some time after.
Darn groovy, that. :-)
1,714
posted on
10/26/2005 11:15:05 PM PDT
by
Ramius
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To: Rose in RoseBear; All
Time for me to circle the wagons...
Good night.
1,715
posted on
10/26/2005 11:23:02 PM PDT
by
Ramius
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To: Rose in RoseBear
looks like yer book is comin' along...
1,716
posted on
10/27/2005 1:23:53 AM PDT
by
g'nad
To: g'nad
It's getting there. NaNoWriMo starts Monday at midnight ... I'm debating whether or not I want to attend one of the midnight kickoff writing parties.
Maybe we should ... bet we'd meet some interesting folks!
1,717
posted on
10/27/2005 1:39:27 AM PDT
by
Rose in RoseBear
(HHD [... I'm to bed ... good night, and may you have peace ...])
To: Rose in RoseBear
It's getting there. NaNoWriMo starts Monday at midnight ... EEEEEEEK! How did that come up on me so fast??? omigoodness
To: Corin Stormhands; SuziQ; Overtaxed; 2Jedismom; JenB; RosieCotton; HairOfTheDog
Gooooood morning happy campers!
To: Lil'freeper
EEEEEEEK! How did that come up on me so fast??? omigoodnessEeeeeekkkk!! At least I have more of a plot than I did the last time 'round.
1,720
posted on
10/27/2005 4:27:25 AM PDT
by
Overtaxed
(Why is my cat staring at me?)
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