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The Hobbit Hole XXVII - And there are many paths to tread...
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Posted on 01/16/2006 6:56:15 AM PST by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

And there are many paths to tread

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: RMDupree

Ungh...I'm glad I missed the actual fall - I was outside.

But there was still blood when I came in - Mom and Dad yelled for me to come watch the rest and took off with her for the ER. *shudder*

And then there was the time she got into my brother's model glue...or the time she found rat poison...or the way she'd put ANYTHING in her mouth. We basically banned small change, marbles, etc. from the house for several years. Didn't help that she could climb anything, open childproof doors and such, and was FAST.

Frightening child she was.


3,901 posted on 02/07/2006 10:23:38 AM PST by RosieCotton
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To: JenB

Maybe she got it out of her system early.

Funny...she's the level-headed one now.


3,902 posted on 02/07/2006 10:24:09 AM PST by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton

*shudder*

Gives me the chills just thinking about it.

My mom told me that she found me eating glass when I was just a baby. My uncle had broken a glass and thought he'd gotten all of it, but I was crawling around on the floor and found some in a corner and just sat there having a snack.


3,903 posted on 02/07/2006 10:35:27 AM PST by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: RosieCotton
I wonder how much trouble we'd get in if I draped a sleeping bag over the balcony.

Heh...what are they going to do? Throw you out?

3,904 posted on 02/07/2006 10:39:46 AM PST by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed

Well...except I don't want 'em to through Jen out. ;-)


3,905 posted on 02/07/2006 10:40:50 AM PST by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton

Er...throw.

My brain is befuddled today.

Doesn't help that Tam is screaming at me.


3,906 posted on 02/07/2006 10:42:36 AM PST by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton

If there's a complaint, they'll probably just leave a notice on the door or something.


3,907 posted on 02/07/2006 10:45:07 AM PST by Overtaxed
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To: RosieCotton; HairOfTheDog; Corin Stormhands
*Sigh*


3,908 posted on 02/07/2006 10:50:15 AM PST by Overtaxed
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To: RosieCotton

Yeah, because then I'd have to live on the street corner. Or at the department. I've thought about that before... I could get a sleeping bag and keep it under my desk, I have access to a microwave and high speed internet... I could shower at the gym... it's almost flawless.


3,909 posted on 02/07/2006 10:52:47 AM PST by JenB
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To: HairOfTheDog

Tweek has turned into such a pretty cat! (Even from behind!) :-)


3,910 posted on 02/07/2006 10:57:44 AM PST by Beaker
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To: RosieCotton

oh no! What comes around... they aways say. Seriously though, karateboy has my personality, and bittygirl has my brother's. He has had his head split at least a couple of times.

Now that my brother is going to be a dad, I think he is terrified of having a baby just like himself. Ha!


3,911 posted on 02/07/2006 11:00:05 AM PST by Peanut Gallery
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To: Beaker

Yeah - she really is a pretty cat :~D

Pippin looks like the 'cat next door' Tweek is the pretty one. :~D


3,912 posted on 02/07/2006 11:01:20 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: RosieCotton
Clare is the only one of ours to ever have broken a bone. She and Joseph were bouncing on her daybed one Sunday afternoon. SirKit and I had gone to the late morning Mass, and when we got home Paul told us that Clare was in our bed crying and she wouldn't tell him why. She had bounced against one of the bed ends and whacked her elbow. It was all swollen when we found her. She took it like a trooper, though. Once we got to the ER she hardly cried at all. She got a turquoise cast for the first three weeks, then a purple one after that.

She and Joseph were the only two who ever had stitches. She had her mishap in the doctor's office!! There was a climbing gym, and she fell down and hit her head. The location was fortuitous; didn't have to wait long to be seen by the doc! Joseph had learned how to get himself down the stairs, and once, he was on the next to the last one when he lost his balance, rolled off the bottom stair onto the slate floor and busted his chin. He yelled and screamed in the doctor's office only because we had to hold him down on the little papoose board. The nurses were funny, though. They thanked me, when they were done, for not getting mad at them for hurting their child. WHA? They actually would get screamed and cussed at by parents who didn't like that what the nurses did might have caused their kid some discomfort, when they weren't doing anything to the kid at all, except holding him tight so he wouldn't be a moving target for the doc doing the stitches!
*shakes head* Some folks.

3,913 posted on 02/07/2006 11:01:55 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: JenB
The catch is that after a few weeks of coming home to the Ugliest Building...you'd probably go certifiably insane. It's just wayyyy too hideous to make a good domicile.

Which, come to think of it, is probably why it got converted into classrooms and offices, no?
3,914 posted on 02/07/2006 11:02:36 AM PST by RosieCotton
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To: SuziQ

I have a theory that youngest kids in a family are more likely to suffer serious injury than the oldest kids. I think it's because the older ones are often a contributing factor in the injury... I can remember a few accidents... the one involving my sister and the second bother and the golf club was a particularly interesting example.


3,915 posted on 02/07/2006 11:05:33 AM PST by JenB
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To: Peanut Gallery

My brother Ben better hope Jacinta isn't like him...

Though in retrospect, he was pretty entertaining. Just aggravating at the same time. ;-) For one, he was a salesman from day one. Heh...used to be when Mom would pass out candy, for example, he would hoard his instead of eating it, and then offer to sell it to the rest of us a few days later. Stuff like that. Heh...he's good at it!

Hopefully if I have kids, they aren't like me, either! Man, I was a brat. Not quite in Margaret's class as dangerous stuff goes, but a much less pleasant personality.


3,916 posted on 02/07/2006 11:06:53 AM PST by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton
Need to recruit a regular doctor, though, I s'pose...

Perhaps a nice Catholic one from a good family?

Stealth FReeping whilst at lunch. Should I put the ring on so they won't see me?

3,917 posted on 02/07/2006 11:08:27 AM PST by Corin Stormhands (Mootless in Virginia...)
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To: SuziQ

We only had two broken bones ever. Not such a bad record, I guess. John fell out of a top bunk and fractured his arm slightly, and Teresa slipped on the bank of a creek a few years after I left home and broke her arm on a big rock since she had her arm out to brace herself. Ouch!


3,918 posted on 02/07/2006 11:09:14 AM PST by RosieCotton
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To: Corin Stormhands
*snicker*

You know, I almost wrote that.

Am I that predictable?

Glad you stopped by!

3,919 posted on 02/07/2006 11:10:08 AM PST by RosieCotton
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To: Corin Stormhands
Should I put the ring on so they won't see me?

We shouldn't tempt you!

3,920 posted on 02/07/2006 11:11:50 AM PST by SuziQ
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