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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: HairOfTheDog

That's a fun picture!


721 posted on 01/18/2006 12:48:49 PM PST by JenB
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To: RMDupree

Uh - no, that part shouldn't make any difference. (pony's barefoot too)

No horse likes deep mud. She's just rather bull headed about it. They all have to be pushed to some degree into slogging through muddy spots on trail. The trouble with her was, she'd take ecurbh through the brush to go around it. :~D Just needs work.

The other aspect that doesn't really occur to them probably is that she's at an advantage in the deep suck mud. It'll pull the shoes right off a shod horse.


722 posted on 01/18/2006 12:51:08 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: JenB

Heh... yeah - I wanted the still. :~D


723 posted on 01/18/2006 12:52:04 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
It'll pull the shoes right off a shod horse.

Yikes!

724 posted on 01/18/2006 12:52:47 PM PST by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: RMDupree

It's a lot of suction! I've lost my own shoes in the mud :~D


725 posted on 01/18/2006 12:57:14 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

Conference call time...

Oh well... beats commuting :~D


726 posted on 01/18/2006 12:59:10 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 well... beats commuting

Hands down. :-D

727 posted on 01/18/2006 1:02:09 PM PST by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: RMDupree

blah blah blah - I'm on mute. :~D


728 posted on 01/18/2006 1:08:39 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: Overtaxed
Das Boot is THE best submarine movie I've ever seen. You just feel like you're in that sub with them.
729 posted on 01/18/2006 1:11:08 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

I got it yesterday but I didn't have 3 1/2 hours to watch it all before bedtime.

So when I get home, I'll get dinner and try to have the movie on by 7:30 at the latest.

Think I'll make popcorn.


730 posted on 01/18/2006 1:31:00 PM PST by Overtaxed
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To: HairOfTheDog

One of my clients called me this morning to say that she happened to be upstairs in a meeting and would like to meet me in person.

I felt so awkward talking to her face to face after a year of only talking by phone. And she looked completely different from what I imagined!

Weird.

Must be that on the phone, you can make faces and such and keep your voice neutral - but not so in person. You have to ~look~ interested in their ramblings. hehehehe....


731 posted on 01/18/2006 1:32:50 PM PST by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: SuziQ; Overtaxed

Das Boot gives me the screaming willies. Going to sea is treacherous enough... but there's something unnatural about ships that sink on purpose. Thousands of years of continually improved boat design... to prevent that very thing.

I'm not even claustrophobic or anything, but I just don't see how those submarine guys do it. Maybe being on a boomer would be OK, where you just run away and hide and play cards... but this bidness of depth charges and torpedoes...? Nope. I want to at least be able to float away when the boat sinks.


732 posted on 01/18/2006 1:43:49 PM PST by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1000 knives and counting!)
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To: RMDupree

Yeah, but you're friendly...and it comes across in your voice.

Speaking of which, I just remembered...I still have your phone number on a piece of paper in my big orange duffle.

Heh.


733 posted on 01/18/2006 1:44:12 PM PST by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: 2Jedismom

:-D

Keep it handy.


734 posted on 01/18/2006 1:47:33 PM PST by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: RMDupree
Hey... Here's the new rig:

Thanks Hair for hosting it!

735 posted on 01/18/2006 1:58:56 PM PST by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1000 knives and counting!)
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To: Ramius
Das Boot gives me the screaming willies.

Good thing I don't have a big screen. :)

736 posted on 01/18/2006 1:59:21 PM PST by Overtaxed
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To: Ramius

Nice ride...


737 posted on 01/18/2006 2:04:33 PM PST by JenB
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To: SuziQ
Das Boot is THE best submarine movie I've ever seen. You just feel like you're in that sub with them.

*shudder*

I prolly better not ever see it, then. The idea of being in a small space and under tons of water just gives me the creeps.

*shudder*

738 posted on 01/18/2006 2:13:04 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: Ramius

Hey...looks nice!


739 posted on 01/18/2006 2:14:12 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: JenB

I'm liking it. :-)

Lots of very cool technology going on there. It's a geek's rig, fer sure...


740 posted on 01/18/2006 2:14:19 PM PST by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1000 knives and counting!)
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