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The Hobbit Hole XXVIII - Through shadows to the edge of night
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Posted on 02/24/2006 9:52:11 AM PST by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Through shadows to the edge of night

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!

See also: http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net

Web page for our moot reports and troop support information!

Regulars and lurkers welcome, and please see and bump the thread about our ongoing troop support projects (and of course donate, if you will)

Help us support our troops! [Knives for Soldiers] Update: 1,000 shipped to date and counting!


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To: g'nad

Doesn't Google Earth do that?


1,861 posted on 03/07/2006 8:15:08 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: g'nad

Google Earth. Definitely.


1,862 posted on 03/07/2006 8:15:40 PM PST by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1100 knives and counting!)
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To: SuziQ; Ramius

Thanks you two...we'll try it tomorrow.

Mrsnad


1,863 posted on 03/07/2006 8:18:08 PM PST by g'nad
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To: JenB

Well, we missed the first bus and were done before the second bus got there, so nobody got sprayed. ;-)

My favorite thing to do is when they're in my driveway waiting for the bus in the morning...they stand right up by my garage door! Sometimes they actually play basketball, hitting it up against the garage door. I like to raise the door and take the trash out *right then*! You can see 'em take off running, it startles them so bad! I just smile sweetly at them and say "Good morning!" pushing the trash bin out to the road in my house coat and house shoes!

I haven't been able to do it in a long time though, 'cause the door's been busted. But it's almost as fun as chasing squirrels.

These are junior high kids...probably the same ones that stole my mailbox and egged the house of the elderly couple next door. I don't think they're the ones that went through our cars that night...I suspect that it was one of their parents though.


1,864 posted on 03/07/2006 8:18:09 PM PST by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

I just checked in at random and that is a FABULOUS pic! I'll be sendng it to my wife aright quick! :)


1,865 posted on 03/07/2006 8:19:22 PM PST by freedumb2003 (American troops cannot be defeated. American Politicians can.)
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To: 2Jedismom

Wow, um, you don't think much of your neighbors, do you?


1,866 posted on 03/07/2006 8:19:35 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

No.

I like my neighbor across the street and I like the elderly couple and there's a couple just down from us that is nice. My neighbor next door to us drives his motorcycle through our front yard and has put ruts all in our yard. It's quicker than taking the street to his drive, I guess.

We don't live in that great of a neighborhood. Low-rent houses, mostly. The kids run in gangs. Not "street gangs" per say, but I fear that it's just a matter of time.


1,867 posted on 03/07/2006 8:28:20 PM PST by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: 2Jedismom
My neighbor next door to us drives his motorcycle through our front yard and has put ruts all in our yard.

couple pounds of roofing nails in the grass. fixed. pick em up with a magnet later. :-)

1,868 posted on 03/07/2006 8:35:08 PM PST by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1100 knives and counting!)
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To: Ramius

Well... signing off. Nite nite all...


1,869 posted on 03/07/2006 8:42:50 PM PST by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1100 knives and counting!)
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To: Ramius

Heh...he'd probably sue me.

The thing is...we're good neighbors...don't allow our kids to disturb anyone's property. I make the jedis keep reasonably quiet. My initial thought was "Why did he do that? What did we do to him to cause him to do that to us?" But then my next thought was he probably didn't see anything wrong with it.

The kids waiting for the bus will be out in our driveway shooting hoops in our basketball net and yelling and hollering at 7:30am! They don't even know us! Maybe I'm old-fashioned or maybe I'm a grump...but I always thought if you were going to play in someone's yard, you should at least ask first...unless it was someone you knew well and knew they wouldn't mind. I'm pretty sure it never even occurred to them to ask.

I want my little bit of land.

I'm off to bed! Night all!


1,870 posted on 03/07/2006 8:44:31 PM PST by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: 2Jedismom
I want my little bit of land.

ASG, hon!

1,871 posted on 03/07/2006 9:27:18 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ; Corin Stormhands; Overtaxed; 2Jedismom; JenB; HairOfTheDog; RosieCotton

Goood mornin'


1,872 posted on 03/08/2006 3:39:58 AM PST by Lil'freeper ("Vote for Pedro and all your wildest dreams will come true.")
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To: Lil'freeper

Not yet... :~O

/sleepwalking


1,873 posted on 03/08/2006 4:36:36 AM PST by HairOfTheDog (Hobbit Hole knives for soldiers! www.freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net)
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To: Lil'freeper; HairOfTheDog

Good morning!

I'm going out onto the back porch to drink my coffee...

It may rain today!


1,874 posted on 03/08/2006 5:21:50 AM PST by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: Lil'freeper

We're off! We're going to get donuts, then get in line to have our taxes done. (It's free.)

See ya!


1,875 posted on 03/08/2006 5:50:27 AM PST by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: HairOfTheDog; Lil'freeper; RMDupree; All

*yawn*

~sip~


1,876 posted on 03/08/2006 6:05:15 AM PST by Corin Stormhands (Edgar we hardly knew ye...)
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To: 2Jedismom

Just reporting back in about the knife I got last year. This is the prime time for grafting fruit trees, and that knife is almost "too sharp", but works like a champ.

I grafted several trees this past weekend and I found a winner with that knife. Now I have my designated grafting knife, instead of having to find a fairly sharp one or sharpen one of my pocket knives.

Thanks again.


1,877 posted on 03/08/2006 6:11:22 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Don't mess with Texas.)
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To: Corin Stormhands; HairOfTheDog; Lil'freeper; SuziQ; 2Jedismom; Ramius; All

Mornin'.

*bleary-eyed*


1,878 posted on 03/08/2006 6:12:13 AM PST by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: RMDupree

It's snowing here. Yesterday it was 65. Hmmm...


1,879 posted on 03/08/2006 6:26:00 AM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

Sheesh. One extreme or the other, huh.


1,880 posted on 03/08/2006 6:34:29 AM PST by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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