The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads!

[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.

[HairOfTheDog]

Does the water come back? - How does a lake leak?

[Corin Stormhands]

LOL!! May be. SSQ's sister uses that expression sometimes. It is hilarious to hear her say it!

It's from the movie. That was the first time I ever heard it. The guy that kills himself talks about...uh...them...

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Just a check in at the HH...what a hectic week!!

My wife interviewed for a job in town on Monday...which is complicated because if she takes it and then I get a job in Boise,she's got to quit right away. Then it's meet again with realtor in preparation for putting the house on the market (if that happens). And finally today a company in Federal Way that I met with a few weeks ago calls and says they've got some "contract" for me -- a piece meal job that'll take me about 10 hours of work and they'll pay a $1000 for in the next two weeks. Let's see that's $100 an hour...I can do that. They imply further such work in the future...

So things are really complicated, I'm working on "contract", my wife may have a job in town, I may have a great job 550 miles from here in a couple of weeks, I may have more $100 an hour work after this little project locally, and we're getting ready to put our house on the market.

And we have no idea at all how all this is going to come out in the end.

I'm too twisted for words.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

I dreamt once that Puget Sound drained

Think of the smell!

P.U.

[HairOfTheDog]

Whew!

Scott, after all this unemployment and new employment, you need a vacation!

[HairOfTheDog]

I have to go up to the beach house on Saturday and shave my Dad's cat.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Isn't it always the way...you either have too much of something or too little.

[Corin Stormhands]

Does the water come back? - How does a lake leak?

Okay, so this is based on what my family has told me, so it's suspect to begin with.

Apparently the water just drains through underground caves. Engineers are working to stop the leak. I know it sounds bizarre.

I don't think they know too much, but they're basing this largely on journals written by early explorers in the area.

Here's a view from the air:

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Shave a cat?

I just have one suggestion.

Charge $100 an hour.

[Corin Stormhands]

If a lake leaks on a mountain, and there's no one around to see it...

does it still wash its hands?

I gotta go folks. See y'all tomorrow.

[HairOfTheDog]

[krinkles nose] but....

Now my brain hurts! Lakes don't leak, and if they did, how could an engineer.... [sigh!]

Let us know if you hear anything else on this!

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Wow! That's gorgeous. I'll vacation there from my so-called unemployment.

[HairOfTheDog]

It is not gonna be pretty.

[HairOfTheDog]

Better go quick.... the tide is goin' out.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Arf

[SuziQ]

I felt old and stodgy in my Chuck Taylors, tee-shirt and $10 Walmart elastic waist jeans...

Don't worry about it, honey. I'll bet you were WAY more comfortable than they were!

[Sam Cree]

How long before it fills up again? Or can they plug the drain?

[SuziQ]

But I swear, I would never have thought to put yellow flip flops with a pair of pink flowered capri pants! I have no fashion sense!

They probably wore the yellow flip flops (now there's something I haven't heard in a while ;o) to bring out the little bit of yellow in their capris. Am I right? That's what I'd do, and you KNOW I'm a real fashion plate! LOL!

[osagebowman]

SLC: nice contract; let me cipher a bit $100 an hour times 40 times 52, okay 51, hmmm. That's a bunch, anyway. Good luck on the prospects.

Hi ya'll; Hair; stopped by for a look-see, been traveling day tripping but long days, looking forward to bending some nails this weekend, which includes a couple days extra; picking up some cedar clapboard siding.

WN: even when we're not posting, there are some of us that are along the frontiers, safeguarding the borders, with trusty bow and blade. yes, we're there.

Overtaxed; your 'evil empire' comment made me laugh, that's what a lot of the other companies call the one I work for.

Hair; one of the fellas on the field review yesterday was telling me about his horse, seems it was 37 years old. That is really getting up there, I would think. They have had him for most of that time (30 or so years). Pretty amazing, the kids all grew up riding the one horse, and some grand kids as well (well sort of, with a pad.) Neat story, which I can't tell the way he did.

[SuziQ]

The one she is bringing is blue. I don't know if our soil will change that or not.

I had always heard that the intensity of the color can be changed by the Ph level of the soil. Does anyone know if it is acid or base that causes the flowers to go more to the deep blue?