The Hobbit Hole XXVIII - Through shadows to the edge of night

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Through shadows to the edge of night

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)
• Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On...
• Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...
• Sixth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...
• Seventh Thread: The Hobbit Hole VII - But not yet weary are our feet...
• Eighth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we may meet...
• Ninth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IX - A sudden tree or standing stone
• Tenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole X - That none have seen but we alone.
      Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
• Twelfth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XII - Tree and flower and leaf and grass
• Thirteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XIII - Let them pass! Let them pass!
• Fourteenth thread: The Hobbit Hole XIV - Hill and Water Under Sky
• Fifteenth thread: The Hobbit Hole XV - Pass them by! Pass them by!
• Sixteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVI - Still round the corner there may wait...
• Seventeenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVII - A new road or a secret gate...
• Eighteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVIII - Though we pass them by today...
• Nineteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XIX - Tomorrow we may come this way...
• Twentieth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XX - And take the hidden paths that run...
• Twenty-first Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXI - ...Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
• Twenty-second Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXII - ...Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe
• Twenty-third Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXIII - Let them go! Let them go!
• Twenty-Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXIV - Sand and Stone and Pool and Dell...
• Twenty-Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXV - Fare you well! Fare you well!
• Twenty-Sixth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXVI - Home is behind, the world ahead
• Twenty-Seventh Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXVII - 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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[SuziQ]

Good grief. What prompted such an invasive law?

[HairOfTheDog]

Thing is, if you're wrong about the first one, I won't be here to say I told ya so on the second one :~D

I just have a sortof sum total of anxiety today.

[HairOfTheDog]

Mad Cow and Bird Flu...

[Ramius]

I don't buy it.

I think it's an Art Bell topic.

[RMDupree]

Heh. Trees may fall, but none will hurt you.

Much.

[HairOfTheDog]

So did I for the last month since I first started hearing about it... but this is from the USDA site.

http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/about/pdf/NAIS_Draft_Strategic_Plan_42505.pdf

[Overtaxed]

You never hear the tree with your name on it.

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, good :~D

I'll stop worryin' then...

[RosieCotton]

I have absolutely no alcohol. This is wrong. ;-)

I know I don't owe the computer store anything if I leave this quick, but I'm not exactly the kinda person that finds conflict easy, and that's what this will be, no matter how you look at it.

Ungh...

Ungh...

Ungh...

[HairOfTheDog]

Come on over then :~D We'll pour ya a drink and feed ya.

[JenB]

I think she needs more than one drink. Also assure her that she never owes an employer anything. And put on American Idol if you're not planning to watch anything else ;-)

[RMDupree]

[RosieCotton]

Can I vent, too? ;-)

OK, I'll come over for a little bit, in any case!

[HairOfTheDog]

No - no venting... I'm using it :~D

[RMDupree]

It's the guys on AI tonight.

Taylor Hicks was quite....er....energetic tonight. :-/

[HairOfTheDog]

When's it on? She was too polite to ask to watch it when she was here.

[ecurbh]

Eeeek! No more venting!

How about we relax and watch a shpadoinkle movie instead?

[JenB]

I have no idea, I don't watch it. Ask Ruthy.

[RMDupree]

8pm.

[Ramius]

watch a shpadoinkle movie

Oh dear... you haven't... not Rosie too...