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

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!

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To: RosieCotton

I’m not sure Tam is being judged fairly here! He’s not the one who escaped! ;~)


8,301 posted on 04/26/2008 8:22:24 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: g'nad

If you’re just looking for something to help with vocabulary, there are Greek and Latin roots workbooks or games out there that are really good. I did some of that in middle school and it really increased my vocabulary. I never did a Latin curriculumn so I can’t suggest any there... I believe the Roots book we used was “English from the Roots Up”.


8,302 posted on 04/26/2008 8:23:38 AM PDT by JenB
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To: HairOfTheDog

Yeah...but I’m pretty positive he opened the door and then sent Halvah out as a scout...and then slugged her when she came back and got caught in the act. ;-)


8,303 posted on 04/26/2008 8:24:03 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton

Convicted before he could even plead.


8,304 posted on 04/26/2008 8:25:43 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

He has a rap sheet a mile long. ;-)


8,305 posted on 04/26/2008 8:26:58 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton

Gidget is watching Babe. And we so enjoy watching this movie so we can watch her watch it. It’s one of the few she will sit and watch all the way through. Undivided attention.


8,306 posted on 04/26/2008 8:27:18 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

Heh...I’m wondering how many other folks there are who buy movies specifically with their dog’s viewing preferences in mind. ;-)

Speaking of which...I should lend you guys Milo and Otis one of these days. Gidget would LOVE Milo and Otis. If you can stand looking at a pug for that long....


8,307 posted on 04/26/2008 8:29:49 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton

Ah - sounds good. :~)


8,308 posted on 04/26/2008 8:30:36 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

Off to run errands...at least until it warms up!


8,309 posted on 04/26/2008 8:31:35 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: g'nad; JenB

I’d forgotten about “English From the Roots Up”! It’s a terrific book, and the kids and I enjoyed using that one, even though we never went though the whole thing.


8,310 posted on 04/26/2008 8:50:42 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: osagebowman

Haircut....likker store....gas station....likker store....

Time to play in theyard.


8,311 posted on 04/26/2008 8:57:43 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: JenB
I just realized I gots me an honest Precious! And it was the second in a row. Don't think I've ever done that!

It was 39 degrees overnight, and the high today is only supposed to be 58. But it will be a good 'working outside in the yard' day. SirKit will be on Gimli digging a trench for drainage. We're eventually going to put some stairs in the area of the yard where the side slopes down to the back, so folks can get to the flat back yard from the side of the house. We needed to provide for drainage so frost doesn't heave the stairs up someday.

This all began because we wanted a place to dump the sand we removed from the trailer so we could get a load of gravel, but we still wanted the sand accessible so we can mix concrete. Since we needed to dig that area out for the stairs anyway, we decided to put the sand there.

I'm hoping that after this next spell of rain, we can get back to the deck. I told SirKit and Joseph I wanted a deck with the hot tub installed for Mother's Day. ;o) We're gonna have to work FAST, since that's only two weeks away. Realistically, I don't think it's gonna happen, but at least I can light a fire!

8,312 posted on 04/26/2008 9:01:32 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

39?? Yuck, I’m glad I live down here. bbrrr


8,313 posted on 04/26/2008 9:21:46 AM PDT by darkangel82 (If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. (Say no to RINOs))
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To: Overtaxed

Been playing in the yard as well, transplanted three hostas, about the transplant some more misc plants, digging dandylions and dethaching the front lawn. Got a full bucket of dafodils cut. Sip.


8,314 posted on 04/26/2008 9:34:00 AM PDT by LSAggie
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To: RosieCotton
Heh...But he does have a job and that now, right?

Well, technically. But he remains significantly underemployed (as in he could get a job with more hours). And he's not really picking up on the whole money management thing. Mrs. had the "we don't care if you don't go to college, but you have to be moving forward in some way talk this week.

Every now and then I'll bring up the military option again (when Mom's not around).

8,315 posted on 04/26/2008 9:36:24 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (What if Tony Almeida is the 12th Cylon?)
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To: RosieCotton; HairOfTheDog
Gidget would LOVE Milo and Otis.

Milo and Otis is a great movie.

8,316 posted on 04/26/2008 9:37:34 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (What if Tony Almeida is the 12th Cylon?)
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To: All
Why didn't I think of this license plate?


8,317 posted on 04/26/2008 9:44:44 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (What if Tony Almeida is the 12th Cylon?)
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To: Corin Stormhands

A lot of members of my generation could use a little military discipline. It might make men out of them.


8,318 posted on 04/26/2008 9:46:44 AM PDT by darkangel82 (If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. (Say no to RINOs))
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To: LSAggie

We have to cut all of them?!

I’ve been working on moving the stuff out of the raised bed.


8,319 posted on 04/26/2008 11:18:31 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: RosieCotton

8,320 posted on 04/26/2008 11:41:30 AM PDT by 300winmag (Life is hard! It is even harder when you are stupid!)
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