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The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads!
Posted on 12/17/2002 7:32:02 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Journey to the Cross-roads
The Two Towers Edition
Come on! Come in! -if you would like to have some seedcakes and a pint and relax a while. (If it is a special occasion, we still have a few bottles of the old wineyards left!)
Our first thread ( New Zealander builds Hobbit hole ) reached 4,100 posts, and we thought that was big. Our second thread (The New Hobbit Hole ) held us for over 48,000 posts, and we loved it dearly. We talked about moving to a new thread for the last 38,000 posts, but we are really slow to muster! Finally, the time has come. Tomorrow (at 12:01 am, to be precise!) The Two Towers comes out, and we start a new chapter.
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To: HairOfTheDog
They're messy trees... the needles kill the grass around them... they don't have acorns the deer can eat...
To: g'nad
....and they have a tendency to snap in two with significant ice accumulation.
16,922
posted on
02/25/2003 9:53:46 AM PST
by
Overtaxed
(and the squirrels eat the seeds.)
To: RosieCotton
Rosie, I am pretty impressed at how cold it is there...-35 and a high of 0. There must be clothes that let you stay out in that, but I wouldn't begin to know what they are. But I had just a great time with my small glimpse of a real winter, I reveled in it.
The persistent pursuit of leftist dogma by academia really drives me crazy, you'd think any fool could look back and see that leftist philosophy has resulted in more human death and suffering in the 20th century than all of previous history combined. Why these people are such slaves to a set of beliefs that guarantees overbearing central authoritarianism is a mystery to me.
Somehow it is not a surprise that it all grows from a French tradition.
To: Sam Cree
The timber has been maintained well... with very few downed trees... in intend to keep it like that...
they get tornados there, but we're in the hills where there's fewer...
To: Overtaxed
or a stiff breeze...
To: HairOfTheDog
Can't use them for fire wood either. But they make a lovely sound when the wind blows through them. They can make you some money, too, and when you clear cut them, it brings in quite a bit of wildlife for awhile.
To: My back yard
The 18 wheelers are playing bumper cars in the traffic, from what she told me she saw on the news.Yup, that's pretty much what we were seeing on the news as well. There were so many auto accidents that the police couldn't keep up with all of them. Parts of I35 were closed, major exit and entrance ramps were closed, it was just a mess. The call-in morning radio program we listen to was full of stories of people stuck in traffic for 2-3 hours, and still no where close to work. I had enough trouble yesterday afternoon driving home while it was coming down, so I didn't want to take any chances.
We get darn few opportunities for a snow day down here anyway, might as well take it when it comes! :)
To: g'nad
Heh, I don't kiss and tell... or do anything else and tell...
To: g'nad
you think you got tree problems?... Yup. Take those pictures of them trees. Put my house under one tree and my neighbor's house under the other.
To: Corin Stormhands
a chainsaw and a strong back could take care of the, yuh know...
To: g'nad
Well... sometimes history doesn't translate well to the screen... :)
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
your silence speaks volumes, friend... ;o)... have a great day...
To: g'nad
a chainsaw and a strong back could take care of the, yuh know... My neighbor and I plan to take care of a quite a bit. But we haven't had a dry Saturday in over a month.
Some of them tho, can't be dropped. There's no clear path to avoid somebody's house. So I gotta get a tree man in with a cherry picker to drop 'em piece by piece.
Last time (we did six trees after Hurricane Fran) I spent $2,000.
To: All
I walked down to the river at lunchtime. Dang, that' water's up.
I tried to find a picture or a web cam, but couldn't. I'll post it if I come up with something.
To: Corin Stormhands
all you need is a harness and gaffs...
and a good life insurance policy...
To: g'nad
I don't do heights. Call it illogical, call it irrational. But I get vertigo on a step ladder. Plus, I posted my picture a while back. Do you really think I've got any business climbing trees (not to mention
ability)?
There's a footbridge that goes out to an island in the middle of the James. I won't do it because it's about as wide as a normal sidewalk and about 40-50 feet over the river.
Of course today, it don't look so high...
To: Corin Stormhands
I don't mind heights... it's the fallin' I don't care for...
you definitely don't want to know about the Mountain Assault Leaders Course... rock climbing, rappeling, controlled falls... with kit...
hey it was just a suggestion... yuh got a skinny, gullible, expendable neighbor?
The river is really that high?...
To: g'nad
You've got FReepmail.
16,938
posted on
02/25/2003 11:25:31 AM PST
by
2Jedismom
(HHD with 17 whistles)
To: g'nad
River is cresting at about 19 ft. this afternoon. More weather is coming.
Top picture is about 1/4 mile from my office. I'm on the hill up next to the Capitol.
Bottom picture is down at the docks. East of the city. That's the ticket booth for the Annabelle Lee (Riverboat/Dinner cruise).
Still lookin' for an actual shot of the river.
To: Corin Stormhands
Good heavens!
16,940
posted on
02/25/2003 11:41:45 AM PST
by
2Jedismom
(HHD with 17 whistles)
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