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!
It was. We talked a bit about how this was where they first met face to face. Seems like ages ago...
Mrsnad
We were too. They had their camera, and we had thegirl take a pic before they left.
Mrsnad
I’d forgotten or missed that you’d gotten bunnies. Hope Rose pulls through!
Heh... I was driving down the freeway one time when I suddenly realized that the car next to me was my old Accord. Same license plate and everything. Of course I wanted to wave or something... but thought better of it. No way to get the message across without looking like a complete lunatic.
Update on that friend who died... turns out it was probably pneumonia, and it was Monday. Going to the service tomorrow.
So I’m sitting here in the airport bar at SFO, just had a nice bit of conversation with a young National Guardsman named Alan and his lovely wife. He’s just back from his second tour in Iraq. They’re on their way to Las Vegas for the weekend.
What fine people we have doing these things.
That’s only a 4 point.
:-)
Indeed. Too bad no one in SF appreciates it though.
Hmmmm....it seems Miss Cat has a taste for Wensleydale cheese with Pear and Ginger...
It was a very good moot! ;-)
Heh...perzackly.
My plates were still on the van at the dealership, which struck me as odd. I guess it's a WA thing? But then, back home you can transfer plates to the next car you own, and so on and so forth. And it's cheaper than getting new plates, generally. I didn't think I'd be allowed that option because of the van being considered a "light truck" instead of a car for registration purposes, but I did ask when I was figuring costs at the Honda place. They acted like I'd asked 'em to help me pass some counterfeit bills... :-\
Oh dear...
No pun intended.
Ooh, and speaking of plates, the new ones for the newlittlecar came in at the dealership today, so we can drive down tomorrow and get ‘em. Makes it all more official like.
I also got the bill for my first payment...so that’s official, too. ;-)
Last night in New Orleans. Heading down to the French Quarter for coffee and beignets.
Suzi, I worked mostly in Gentilly but we had three work sites. We all finished up today in St. Bernards Parish.
The house I spent most of the week at was under 9 ft of water which took almost a month to recede. Most people have the idea that everything is back to normal but that will take years.
I’ve kept a journal and plan to blog this when I get back.
We travel tomorrow. I’ll check in on Sunday.
Yah, here the plates follow the car, prettymuch. I suppose if you got personalized plates there’s a way to keep ‘em.
Mmmm...coffee and beignets...
Safe travels tomorrow!
Sure hope they win BIG!!
ROTFL!! Yeah, that would be BAD!
And the water in the City wasn't like the MS Gulf Coast where the water came up, stayed just a bit, then receded. Of course, there, it receded and tended to take a lot of stuff with it. They've had to dredge the Sound, off the Coast ever since the storm. I was down there in June after the storm, and there were still large tree roots sticking up out of the water from big old trees that had withstood several large storms over the last 100 years, and were uprooted and carried out by the receding water. Katrina was too much for them.
If you had some extra bucks, and didn't mind doing the work yourself, you could turn a tidy profit by buying up some of those homes in the Lakeview area of New Orleans and either rehabbing, or tearing down to build new. My nephew was thinking of that, but he couldn't come up with the $40K it was going to cost him to purchase what had been a $400K home, and then bear all the cost of the improvements.
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