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The Hobbit Hole XXVI - Home is behind, the world ahead
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Posted on 12/11/2005 8:37:40 AM PST by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Home is behind, the world ahead

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: HairOfTheDog

Incidentally, though we had enough cats over the years that they should have known better, one of my younger brothers got a cat when I was in high school that they thought was a boy. When she was a couple months old, she went after a toad, and the poison made her foam at the mouth and get sick, so they rushed her to the vet.

Vet told them she was a girl. My mom had quite a time explaining to the youngest kids that licking a toad did *not* cause cats to change gender...


4,541 posted on 01/05/2006 4:44:00 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: ecurbh

It also explains that odd behavior ;~o

Hope I see ya soon! I'm on the way out to put horses in.


4,542 posted on 01/05/2006 4:52:00 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/ 1,000 knives and counting!)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Oh my. Well, at least she won't have an identity crisis with Pippin as a name. :-D


4,543 posted on 01/05/2006 4:53:48 PM PST by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: RosieCotton

He had to look long and hard to be sure enough to switch genders. It's not easy to tell on cats when they are little.

He said "I've never actually put a young male on the table for a 'spay' but I know a lot of good vets that have" :~D


4,544 posted on 01/05/2006 4:54:03 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/ 1,000 knives and counting!)
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To: RMDupree

HE'LL have an identity crisis because HE's still being called "SHE". :~D


4,545 posted on 01/05/2006 4:54:49 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/ 1,000 knives and counting!)
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To: HairOfTheDog

They're not exactly as obvious as dogs. ;-) Usually.


4,546 posted on 01/05/2006 4:55:27 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton

Well then..

*raises glass of orange juice*

Here's to another year! May it be filled with all the blessings that last year forgot!


4,547 posted on 01/05/2006 4:55:42 PM PST by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Yikes. I'm having a harder time adjusting to the change than he is!


4,548 posted on 01/05/2006 4:56:25 PM PST by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: RMDupree

I'll drink to that!

~sip~


4,549 posted on 01/05/2006 4:56:26 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: HairOfTheDog

Interesting.... poor confused kitty.


4,550 posted on 01/05/2006 5:01:45 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

Well, I guess we better stop talking to him in squeaky voices ;~D


4,551 posted on 01/05/2006 5:30:26 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/ 1,000 knives and counting!)
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To: HairOfTheDog

That or let him move to San Francisco.


4,552 posted on 01/05/2006 5:32:30 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB; SuziQ; RosieCotton; RMDupree; Lil'freeper; HairOfTheDog; 2Jedismom; Overtaxed; g'nad; ...
I had forgotten this movie was coming out: End of the Spear

Can't wait to see it.

4,553 posted on 01/05/2006 5:36:28 PM PST by Corin Stormhands (The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. - P Henry)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Huh...I'd never heard of that, but it does look interesting.


4,554 posted on 01/05/2006 5:42:41 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: JenB
Don't send him there. Cats tend to fall into the seedy nightclub scene.


4,555 posted on 01/05/2006 5:42:45 PM PST by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: RMDupree

That's a little disturbing.


4,556 posted on 01/05/2006 5:45:42 PM PST by JenB
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To: RMDupree

Evenin' folkses... back at da bachpad.

[sip]

Gotta go back on the clock for a minute... be back and catch up shortly.


4,557 posted on 01/05/2006 5:45:49 PM PST by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1000 knives and counting!)
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To: Corin Stormhands

I haven't heard of it either, but it does look very good!


4,558 posted on 01/05/2006 5:47:33 PM PST by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: JenB

Exactly.

San Fran is a dead end for kitties. ;-)


4,559 posted on 01/05/2006 5:48:14 PM PST by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Is it a limited release film, or will it be showing most places?


4,560 posted on 01/05/2006 5:54:52 PM PST by RosieCotton
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