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The Hobbit Hole XXXII - Sweet is the sound of falling rain
The Freeper Hobbit Hole Blog ^ | December 1, 2006

Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!

O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.

O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.

O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!

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

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To: RosieCotton

WooHoo! Gaudete Sunday precious!


1,301 posted on 12/17/2006 2:15:37 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ; RosieCotton
You mean spritz cookies that you squeeze through a tube with the changeable discs?

That'd be the one! But right now I'm making enchiladas. I'll do another batch o'cookies after dinner.

1,302 posted on 12/17/2006 2:30:32 PM PST by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: Lil'freeper

"You mean spritz cookies that you squeeze through a tube with the changeable discs?--That'd be the one! But right now I'm making enchiladas. I'll do another batch o'cookies after dinner."

Squeeze tube enchiladas. What will they think of next!


1,303 posted on 12/17/2006 3:52:02 PM PST by Rb ver. 2.0
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To: Lil'freeper

I've been making chocolate crinkles. Yesterday I made oatmeal scotchies and one-pan magic cookie bars. Talon and I both have to bring food to work this week; his department and my whole company are both about the same sixe so I've made like 9 dozen cookies.


1,304 posted on 12/17/2006 4:01:47 PM PST by JenB
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To: Ramius; All
Check this out! Freeper Sionnsar's photo album...

More here: sionnsar/2006-12-storm - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

1,305 posted on 12/17/2006 4:12:25 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (Ahhh - heat!)
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To: HairOfTheDog
Ouch, ouch, ouch. I wouldn't even know where to begin to fix that mess. Other than cutting power to whatever feeds those lines.

At least all the dangerous trees have been self-trimmed, so you shouldn't experience quite this level of damage for many years. Spoken by someone who saw the power companies in Michigan trim trees along their right-of-way 30 years behind their own published schedule.

You can get away with that when the state regulatory agencies are run by RATs. They always "fight" for the little guy (the only kind of "fighting" they do) if there's anything left after schmoozing with the evil companies they're supposed to regulate.

1,306 posted on 12/17/2006 4:55:11 PM PST by 300winmag (Overkill never fails)
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To: 300winmag

I looked at it too, trying to figure out where you cut first :~)


1,307 posted on 12/17/2006 4:57:19 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (Ahhh - heat!)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Great pics!! OB was just looking at 'em and sighed, "lots of board feet in those logs". Can take the man out of the forest, but not the forester out of the man :-)

LSA


1,308 posted on 12/17/2006 5:31:18 PM PST by osagebowman
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To: osagebowman

After Fran blew through, there was actually a small operator offering to log the debris.


1,309 posted on 12/17/2006 5:46:51 PM PST by Overtaxed (GLP compliant mad scientist)
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To: Overtaxed

There were firewooders doing it here after the icestorm; occasionally you'd see a self loader from the Ozarks picking up trees. Lot of wood did go to chips, well, it's in the new houses now...


1,310 posted on 12/17/2006 5:58:45 PM PST by osagebowman
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To: Overtaxed

Heh...there's a post on Craigslist offering free firewood - you cut. ;-)

Well...it *might* work.


1,311 posted on 12/17/2006 5:59:09 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: HairOfTheDog; ecurbh; Ramius; RosieCotton

Hey, all's well that ends well! A heartwarming story, very nice reading. And thanks for the pics.

Hair, please get a CO monitor if you can at all find one for the next time...there are horror stories on FR (and elsewere) about what CO fumes have done. I keep the gen as far from the house as I can get it.

Anyhow, I loved reading about how you guys coped with the power outage and cold and everything. It reminded me of how one winter about 15 years ago a bunch of us were up at the house in rural VA with our spouses and kids when an ice storm put the power out for several days. People didn't keep generators around then as they do now, but luckily we had a good supply of firewood and the stove ran on gas. We basically just all camped out in the one room that had a fireplace during the day. At night we used one hell of a lot of blankets and quilts and did OK. Went down the hill to the lake to bring back water to make the toilets work.

But the house was very old, built well before the advent of electricity, so we had a chance to see how people had lived in those days, sort of. 'Course no one had TV, so that whole part of the county basically stayed kind of bombed for a few days, for entertainment.


1,312 posted on 12/17/2006 6:08:51 PM PST by Sam Cree (don't mix alcopops and ufo's - absolute reality)
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To: Sam Cree
Hair, please get a CO monitor if you can at all find one for the next time...

Will do. :~)

1,313 posted on 12/17/2006 6:15:09 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (Ahhh - heat!)
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To: RosieCotton

Heh - it'll get taken. People with fireplaces are always looking for wood.


1,314 posted on 12/17/2006 6:20:42 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (Ahhh - heat!)
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To: osagebowman
Did you notice the for sale sign on this one?

Heh... OK scratch the part where we said it was nicely landscaped :~)

1,315 posted on 12/17/2006 6:26:17 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (Ahhh - heat!)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Well...it depends on the definition of "landscaping"...

What is scaping, anyhoo? Is that hunk of land at the end of the tree scaped?


1,316 posted on 12/17/2006 6:32:40 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: osagebowman

Mr. Bowman, what's the right way to reduce those trees that are broken accross the road? I don't know what I'm doing, but if it was me, I'd start with the ends away from the trunk and cut little pieces off, one at a time and carefully, until I got back to where the other end is rooted in the ground.


1,317 posted on 12/17/2006 6:35:24 PM PST by Sam Cree (don't mix alcopops and ufo's - absolute reality)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Thanks for pointing that out, we couldn't read the sign but thought it might a real estate sign. Maybe the 'homesite' is cleared now?


1,318 posted on 12/17/2006 6:50:32 PM PST by osagebowman
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To: osagebowman

Maybe it is :~)


1,319 posted on 12/17/2006 6:52:52 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (Ahhh - heat!)
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To: Sam Cree
'Course no one had TV, so that whole part of the county basically stayed kind of bombed for a few days, for entertainment.

Imbibing corn by the gallon, right? ;o)

1,320 posted on 12/17/2006 6:53:34 PM PST by SuziQ
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