Posted on 01/03/2008 6:35:58 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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!
Cool....
What’d be really fun is to somehow rig up a fairly compact but loud airhorn on the back of a bicycle, with a line to a trigger of some sort on the handlebars.
Just to mess with people’s heads, ya know.
Yep...me too. See if you can get this to work. I can’t.
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=INX&product=NCR&overlay=11101111&loop=yes
Tornado sirens goin’ off all over town... tornado about 10 miles SE of us...
/ sirens...
y’all stay safe
Had to drive around a tree in the road this morning....
Had a pretty bad cell just go through. High winds, heavy downpour.
I told the boys if we had tornado comin’ at us, we were gonna go jump in the big trench in our back yard!
Steve’s been gettin’ ready to make me some rabbit cages.
I think we could probably buy ‘em cheaper than he can make ‘em...but he’s got the urge to make them himself.
No sense arguing.
I think it’s great that he wants to help you out with your obsessions! Also it’s nice to have someone who can and will use tools around, I love having a handy husband.
Well, you are right...he is handy. I love looking out the back window of the house at the trench that saved us 2 grand.
And he’ll probably make ‘em better than the store-bought ones.
And he never complains about my obsessions.
But then again, if there were just a few fresh eggs (when we had the hens) he got them. And whenever I plant a garden, he always gets the first of the harvest. I like to do the stuff, he likes the results.
You know, I was just thinkin’...
One of the main problems with rabbits is their pee. It stinks if you leave it sitting around. They pee through the floors of their cages onto these plastic trays underneath that tilt forward...then it runs off.
I figured we could run a trough of some sort and catch the urine as it comes off the tray and divert it to a perforated PVC pipe that is sunk a couple of feet underground, then the pee would absorb into the soil under ground and perhaps not stink as bad. Like a leech field. Could even wash the trays off with a hose a couple a times a week to keep them fresh.
Kinda like this...except this is designed to go into a sewer system.
http://www.bassequipment.com/files/images/Site-Images/fkr.jpg
I shoulda pinged yuh tuh 7,153
I’ve heard this before, but it still makes me chuckle:
A Cowboy in Montana
A Montana cowboy was watching his herd in a remote mountainous pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, “If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?”
The cowboy looked at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looked at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answered,
“Sure, why not?”
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NAS satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniature HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, “You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.” “That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,” says the cowboy. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then the cowboy says to the young man, “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?”
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, “Okay, why not?” You’re a Congressman for the U. S. Government”, says the cowboy.
“Wow! That’s correct,” says the yuppie, “but how did you guess that?”
“No guessing required,” answered the cowboy. “You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don’t know a thing about cows. This is a herd of sheep.
Now give me back my dog.
Get one for your littlebluecar. ;o)
*snort* Too true!
Ha! Love it!
Thelittlebluecar has a pretty loud horn as it is.
Doesn’t it, Hair?
Yeah, but does it sound like a train? That would cause some heads to turn on the drive in to work, dontcha think? ;o)
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