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The Hobbit Hole XXIX - Until the stars are all alight...
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Posted on 04/20/2006 2:10:46 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Until the stars are all alight

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; RosieCotton; HairOfTheDog

Thanks for the offers of help! Of course she had to turn up right ~after~ things turned uncertain.

I'm still leaning towards "Butters" for the name, though. "Butters Stotch," to be precise. ;~D


4,341 posted on 05/24/2006 12:38:39 PM PDT by ecurbh (Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: ecurbh

"Butters" would work!

So would "Wendy Testaberger". ;-)


4,342 posted on 05/24/2006 12:41:13 PM PDT by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: ecurbh

She's too skinny to have a name like "Butters" though. Maybe it'll fit after she gets fattened up.


4,343 posted on 05/24/2006 12:46:26 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: AnAmericanMother; 2Jedismom; HairOfTheDog; RosieCotton; JenB
Now THAT is a chicken coop!

Thank you kindly ladies...

It was a pre-fab that was here when we bought the place... I kinda hated tuh use it as a coop, but mrsnad talked me into it... we put down an epoxy resin that you normally use in a garage, in the hopes that if'n/when we get rid of the chickens, thebuildin' will hopefully still be usable...

4,344 posted on 05/24/2006 12:51:10 PM PDT by g'nad
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To: HairOfTheDog

I can't get the tab to show up...keeps timing out on me. Can you post it in the egroup photo section?


4,345 posted on 05/24/2006 12:57:17 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: ecurbh
How about Buttercup?

"I'm little Buttercup, just little Buttercup,
Though I can't really tell why . . . "

4,346 posted on 05/24/2006 1:00:27 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: AnAmericanMother

I like Buttercup too...Princess Buttercup!

Inconceivable?


4,347 posted on 05/24/2006 1:01:08 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: g'nad

One plan I saw in one of those whole-earth magazines suggested cutting a slot in the wall below the roosts and forming a shallow metal pan with turned up edges to slide in below. Keeps the worst of the chicken poop off the wood floor, and best of all you just slide it out and hose it off over the compost pile!


4,348 posted on 05/24/2006 1:01:59 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: 2Jedismom

We KNOW she's not inconceivable!


4,349 posted on 05/24/2006 1:02:27 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: HairOfTheDog

Trillian? That's a good name...

I'm thinking of naming my poodle Ix when I get it...


4,350 posted on 05/24/2006 1:02:43 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: AnAmericanMother

Heh heh...she will be!

;-)


4,351 posted on 05/24/2006 1:03:23 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: 2Jedismom

It'd be the same link there, wouldn't it? It's a snapfish link and shouldn't be too big. Maybe it just hit a bump in the internet.

Basically, it's just a scan of the estimate for the surgery and everything else, it comes out to $482 for the low estimate, $557 if it's on the high side.


4,352 posted on 05/24/2006 1:04:11 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

Drive by posting, I've been in a meeting and have to go cook dinner (wife's out of town).

Send me yer Paypal addy. I can't do much, but I can help.

See y'all later.


4,353 posted on 05/24/2006 1:11:54 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: HairOfTheDog
...Send me yer Paypal addy. I can't do much, but I can help...

Me too.

4,354 posted on 05/24/2006 1:14:08 PM PDT by FrogInABlender (Never argue with an idiot. People watching may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: Corin Stormhands; osagebowman; ecurbh; AnAmericanMother; 2Jedismom; FrogInABlender; RosieCotton; ...

Everyone, I appreciate your generosity. But there's bad news. The vet just called, and she was on the operating table and things were very bad inside. Her uterus had ruptured some days ago, all the kittens were dead, and her insides were very contaminated. Even though I expressed a lot of hope that she seemed to feel pretty good before the surgery, he was very skeptical that she could pull through the inevitable infection that would certainly come. She's just too weak. He said "where our chances were 75% for success before, they're 25% now, and that's only after many days of expensive hospitalization. It might run to a thousand dollars in ICU and she still might die." He said "I've never seen anything like it... it's like she was thrown from a car, or kicked or something".

I said "You really think the best thing is to put her down, don't you?" he said "I think you'd be setting yourself up for a heartbreak to keep going".

Darnit. I'm full of regret and doubt, because she hadn't seemed to be too terribly sick or in pain before, but I said to go ahead and put her down.

I don't know if or how much they'll charge me. He wasn't interested in talking about the bill right now, but it will be considerably less than it was gonna be and we won't ask for help with such a depressing last chapter.

Darnit.


4,355 posted on 05/24/2006 1:26:56 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

Crap. I barely knew the poor thing, but she had really started to grow on me.

Crap.

(((Hair)))


4,356 posted on 05/24/2006 1:34:04 PM PDT by ecurbh (Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Oh my...

:-(

You're a good person. I've said it before. I'm sorry about all this but that poor kitty had someone look after her when she needed it and finally someone to do the right thing by her.

What a shame.


4,357 posted on 05/24/2006 1:34:31 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: ecurbh

I was dying to just say "fix her" lets do it! But he was really pushing me to let her go. He said "this didn't just happen, the kittens had begun deteriorating like it happened many days ago and were in pieces. He said "even if we get all the pieces and can get her on antibiotics, she just has NO fat reserves to pull her through the next week. She's just too thin."

He didn't want to try to fix her, and I think it's because his experience was telling him it wouldn't work.

But she didn't seem that bad.

And she didn't hate people.


4,358 posted on 05/24/2006 1:39:36 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

Oh MAN!! That's awful and I sure hate it for ya! I know she'd only been around for a couple of days but she'd really wrapped herself around all our hearts. It sounds like she never really had a chance, but at least her last days were in a good loving home.


4,359 posted on 05/24/2006 1:41:13 PM PDT by FrogInABlender (Never argue with an idiot. People watching may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Oh no! What a terrible turn of events. ~sigh~

(((Hair)))

Take comfort in knowing that her last days were full of love, with a full belly in a warm house - all because of you being such a "softy".

God'll bless you for it, sis.


4,360 posted on 05/24/2006 1:43:22 PM PDT by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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