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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!
Heh...I'm just tryin' to impress Steve.
Same kinda deal as far as ice is concerned...
That does look like a lot of work!
You gotta get your boys doing that sort of manual labor ;-)
They did, actually...they did a lot of picking up of ice at first. I would break it and they'd pick it up... but then their gloves got wet and I told them to go in and I would be in "in a mimute". It was about halfway done by then and I "intended" to go in!
But I couldn't stop!
Joshua was actually a bit disappointed when he looked out and saw I had done it all!
Global Warming. You don't have to worry about falling ice. :)
Yeah, that looks about the same.
Yuh, right!
I just hate when that happens.
Snopes confirmed it was true, but added that it happened in October 2004, and they had to kill the moose due to the danger involved, and probable severe internal injury to the moose, who was hanging around only for a few minutes before being noticed.
Ah - well thanks for the rest of the story... I hope they at least got to take home the trophy... and the mooseburgers :~)
Yeah, it looked like that moose woulda been in a world of hurt when they got him down.
Evenin, folkses...
That bidness of the under-driveway heating was done, sorta, in Pullman, on the WSU campus. Maybe lots of places do it but I'd never heard of it before.
Pullman gets a few feet of snow in the winter and it stays for the duration. Seems that all the buildings are heated with steam from a central steam plant and all the pipes are routed through town in tunnels that run under all of the sidewalks and such.
It works really well. Snow and ice arrives in November or so and stays through February but all of the sidewalks and walkways stay melted and warm and ice-free.
Maybe lots of places do this sort of thing. But I've never seen it before.
Evenin' :~)
Steam tunnels :~)
Heh. Those steam tunnels were the stuff of legends around the campus.
The Dungeons & Dragons crowd was known to be lurking around in there. And of course there were the requisite myths about students getting lost and starving to death... Bodies never found... Haunting the College of Business and such.
Perfect use of the leftover steam!
Moria :~)
We just had a great steak dinner
~picks teeth~
I can't find one thing, on any forum, that I want to talk about. My mind is a blank.
I spent the day with a fever of 103...think I still have it. At least I've been able to get up for water, but I keep having odd dreams about polar bears and trains and people from the wedding and other such things.
I think work wouldn't have been a good idea.
A great steak dinner could certainly do that!
It's like 'nilla wafers.
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