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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

Web page for our moot reports and troop support information!


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To: JenB

Never give intelligence to a toaster!


6,601 posted on 02/19/2007 9:45:23 AM PST by Overtaxed
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To: JenB
He wants the E-Commerce Site Of The Gods.

And he might get it, too ... I can be persistent.

6,602 posted on 02/19/2007 9:47:27 AM PST by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [... http://www.rbent.com/HHLCSGetWellDonations.htm...])
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To: Corin Stormhands

You know, I actually have some spam spread in our 72 hour kit...

I could go for a sammich...


6,603 posted on 02/19/2007 9:57:34 AM PST by 2Jedismom (Ooooo-klahoma! Where the.....)
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To: Overtaxed

I took Sunday off...


6,604 posted on 02/19/2007 10:15:20 AM PST by Professional Engineer (So, when is the president going to announce his party change?)
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To: 2Jedismom

We had a Lighting McQueen at ours also.

1st place Favorite Car.


6,605 posted on 02/19/2007 10:16:42 AM PST by Professional Engineer (So, when is the president going to announce his party change?)
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To: SuziQ
Joseph always enjoyed the decorating of the cars more than the actual building of them!

Spiderboy has not shown much interest in building stuff like this. Model cars and planes are OK if quickly assembled. Gotta see about this.

Bittygirl OTOH is very interested in stuff. We'll see how that works.

6,606 posted on 02/19/2007 10:21:52 AM PST by Professional Engineer (So, when is the president going to announce his party change?)
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To: 2Jedismom

You did *not* just say that. I'm eating my lunch, 2J!


6,607 posted on 02/19/2007 10:40:52 AM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

I like Spam! I own shares in the company!

I'd like to sell them off though and buy something else...just don't know how.


6,608 posted on 02/19/2007 10:51:14 AM PST by 2Jedismom (Ooooo-klahoma! Where the.....)
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To: Professional Engineer
Steve did it for me. I told him what to do as far as the paint job...I wanted it to be the retro McQueen. I did the eyes and the smile.

Also, I don't know if you can tell, but the spoiler and the roof come off. That's how it raced...with those two things off.

It has these stickers on the hood and sides:



And this RA's emblem on the trunk area.


6,609 posted on 02/19/2007 10:56:39 AM PST by 2Jedismom (Ooooo-klahoma! Where the.....)
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To: 2Jedismom
2J, you know, just because the courthouse burned down doesn't mean you can't get at some records of that cemetery.

I did a quick search and found two cemeteries in the Jennings area. Is Bethany Cemetery the one you found? Between Highways 412 and 64?

You can contact the county clerk's office and ask them who owns or manages that cemetery. In rural areas, quite often a family would donate a few acres of their land for a cemetery; the donor's descendants may have the cemetery map, or know where it is.

While you're at it, get the names of the local morticians, especially those that have been around a while. Make sure you ask about any funeral homes that have closed down. Funeral homes are usually family-run; even if the elders have died and the funeral home has been shut down, there may still be records.

And don't neglect the funeral homes that seem to cater to different ethnic groups. My mother's triplet sister, who was still-born, was buried by a Hispanic funeral home in San Antonio.

I've had great luck with getting information out of funeral homes, and from old retired funeral directors. They love to talk about the old days.

And check with any old preachers in the area ... many of them kept detailed records of the people they married, baptized, and buried.

Maybe you and the jedis should get into genealogy ... it's a great way to learn history!

6,610 posted on 02/19/2007 11:49:04 AM PST by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [... http://www.rbent.com/HHLCSGetWellDonations.htm...])
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To: SuziQ
Here's the part I was tellin' you about...

"What I can't understand is my folks takin' it! Like Ma! I seen her nearly beat a peddler to death with a live chicken. She aimed to go for him with an ax she had in the other hand but she got mixed up and forgot which hand was which and when she got through with that peddler all she had left was two chicken legs."

6,611 posted on 02/19/2007 11:50:56 AM PST by 2Jedismom (Ooooo-klahoma! Where the.....)
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To: Rose in RoseBear

I don't remember the name of it, though I could drive right to it.

Hmmm...it would be nice to find out where they're exactly buried. I intend to put markers out there eventually anyways. Steve knows if anything should (God forbid) happen to me, he's to bury me there.


6,612 posted on 02/19/2007 11:53:48 AM PST by 2Jedismom (Ooooo-klahoma! Where the.....)
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To: 2Jedismom
If it's out to the north and west of you, that may be it.

Check here for all the cemeteries that have been walked in Pawnee County.

6,613 posted on 02/19/2007 11:59:19 AM PST by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [... http://www.rbent.com/HHLCSGetWellDonations.htm...])
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To: Rose in RoseBear

Jennings Cemetery. That's it. I found a map to it and that is right where it is. I remember you go half-way through town a bit, turn left and then right at the first section intersection. The cemetery is on the left.

The first time I went, it was in real bad repair. The second time it was really fixed up...someone was keeping it up.

http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=148929


6,614 posted on 02/19/2007 12:06:14 PM PST by 2Jedismom (Ooooo-klahoma! Where the.....)
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To: 2Jedismom
Here's a very partial listing: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ok/county/muskogee/cemeteries/jennings/jenningslist.htm

Next time you're out that way, stop in and visit at the city clerk ... bet there's a wealth of information to be had on that cemetery.

6,615 posted on 02/19/2007 12:22:15 PM PST by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [... http://www.rbent.com/HHLCSGetWellDonations.htm...])
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To: Rose in RoseBear

We did that...talked to someone at City Hall. That's how we found out the stuff burned up.

:-(

All this happened so very long ago...just after the turn of the century. My grandmother was just twelve, she was 42 when she had my mom. She died when she was 86 years old...about 25 years ago.

My mom has traced our roots back to the 1500s...we've visited many a grave. But we can't find these. The townsfolk literally went into the house and dispersed the property amongst themselves, along with the kids. Can you imagine?

An uncle eventually came and got several of the kids, but one couple had taken the baby and left town.

We know this is the right cemetery, my uncle took my mom years ago (he's been dead many years too) and showed it to her, so when I took her she recognized it. But if they ever had markers, they were likely wood and long gone now. And I'm sure they were just buried in wooden boxes. Likely someone else is buried over them.


6,616 posted on 02/19/2007 12:37:55 PM PST by 2Jedismom (Ooooo-klahoma! Where the.....)
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To: 2Jedismom
Likely someone else is buried over them.

Not necessarily. Funeral homes are real persnickety about that.

I'd chat up the morticians, if I were you. Start with Palmer & Marler Funeral Home. They may have records going back to 1898, and I'll bet they have plenty of records concerning that cemetery, even if the current owners have only been there since 1989.

Genealogy is fun!

6,617 posted on 02/19/2007 12:54:38 PM PST by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [... http://www.rbent.com/HHLCSGetWellDonations.htm...])
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To: HairOfTheDog; ecurbh; Ramius; RosieCotton

Do the Great FReeper NW settlers have any experiences here:
http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_021907WABmysterydustLJ.15d99c83.html


6,618 posted on 02/19/2007 12:55:45 PM PST by Rb ver. 2.0 (A Muslim soldier can never be loyal to a non-Muslim commander.)
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To: 2Jedismom

My grandfather's grandfather was the baby of a largish family. They had just barely moved to town when the house caught fire. A neighbor managed to get the baby out but the whole rest of the family died. Nobody knew who they were or where they'd come from. No relatives ever came to look. This was in 1800s Maryland, not exactly wilderness, but none of the local county seats had any idea who the family might have been...


6,619 posted on 02/19/2007 1:15:36 PM PST by JenB
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To: 2Jedismom

mmmmm...sammich...

I had to exchange our Peanut Butter today. All the store had was Jif.

~sigh~


6,620 posted on 02/19/2007 1:25:16 PM PST by Corin Stormhands (http://www.virginiaisforrudy.com)
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