The Hobbit Hole XXXV - ...is Water Hot that smokes and steams.

[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

• 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
• Twenty-Eighth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXVIII - Through shadows to the edge of night
• Twenty-Nineth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXIX - Until the stars are all alight
• Thirtieth thread: The Hobbit Hole XXX - Then world behind and home ahead...
• Thirty-First ThreadThe Hobbit Hole XXXI - Mawwage is what bwings us togethew today!
• Thirty-second thread: The Hobbit Hole XXXII - Sweet is the sound of falling rain
• Thirty-Third thread (Our coming-of-age thread): The Hobbit Hole XXXIII - And the brook that leaps from hill to plain...
• Thirty-fourth thread: The Hobbit Hole XXXIV - But better than rain or rippling streams...

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!

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[FrogInABlender]

...Our furnace is making squeaking sounds...

Is the smell of mouse pee was also wafting out of it or are you referring to another type of squeaking?

[HairOfTheDog]

I think it’s a fan belt or something.... no mouse pee smell. ;~\

[RosieCotton]

Ah, yeah. I was forgetting about that. So for yours it’s not rewriting as in editing...it’s rewriting in order to write.

I’m still making up my mind whether my story needs that or not. I get frustrated with lack of realism. It’s not as though I really know everything there is to know about everything I could possibly want to write about. Ain’t gonna happen. But I end up dead in the water over details that don’t matter.

[Corin Stormhands]

Haven’t you known me long enough to know that I should never ignore ~any~ warning sounds?

It might not hurt to have it serviced.

[RosieCotton]

Thanks!

[Corin Stormhands]

I feel it only fair to warn you that your character...um...evolved...

[FrogInABlender]

Well that’s good...I guess. Given your track record with mice getting into places they’re not supposed to be, like the truck dashboard, I just wondered. ;o)

[RosieCotton]

Oh dear...squeaking?

But yeah, if it was Corin’s furnace, this would probably be a lead-in to ‘sploding. ;-)

[RosieCotton]

*snort*

Someone on Craisglist wants a “baby gait”.

Sometimes misspellings crack me up...

[JenB]

Does that mean she’s now an acid-tripping showgirl who trains marmosets?

[Corin Stormhands]

Let me know if you find a good offer for a chester drawers.

[Corin Stormhands]

Does that mean she’s now an acid-tripping showgirl who trains marmosets?

Well, she wasn't...

**makes notes in margins**

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, I won’t rule it out... One never knows in this place!

[HairOfTheDog]

Did that guy ever find his marijuana... and did they post a phone number? ;~)

[HairOfTheDog]

...let's also not forget--let's not forget, Dude--that keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city-- that isn't legal either.

[RosieCotton]

*snort*

[Corin Stormhands]

I found out recently that to have a bunny in my county you have to have an agricultural zoning permit.

“No more pets, Luke. It’s illegal.”

Sometimes I love the law.

[RosieCotton]

But that was a marmot.

Not that an acid-tripping showgirl would necessarily know the difference...

[RosieCotton]

You know, I have no idea.

Craiglist is full of such mysteries...

[FrogInABlender]

Y'all live in such an interesting place!