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.

[Wneighbor]

I kind of wish I had one of those old ones. Even if it wasn't in condition to sit somewhere as the real mccoy I think I'd put it in the back yard and make it a white trash planter. It might make an interesting addition to the neighborhood.

[Overtaxed]

You could have a flock of pink flamingos hanging around it.

[HairOfTheDog]

I could ask questions, but I don't know which ones. I can't fathom how anything that happens to Grama is your fault.... and I don't understand the distance if you see them as often as you do when you visit Grama.

[Wneighbor]

Glad I made you laugh earlier. How's your grama, anyway?

I'm glad you made me laugh too. I put off coming back here because I was just so angry. And first I saw the thing about Hair's dad with the shoestring and all. That really made my heart soothed...it's something like Grama would do. And then what you said is EXACTLY like how I talk to my Grama! And she probably would have come back at me with something like - well, at least they knew how to construct a grammatically correct sentence or at least they all had respectable penmanship or something. HA! So, between you two it was kind of like a sense of normalcy was here anyway.

Bad thing is, I have no real report on Grama. She is in the hospital. My dad isn't really into reports he just said she's better..... than what? for him that just means he's not having to miss a meal for mom sitting up there. And I can't call because the hospital doesn't give out the information and Grama is blind so she can't see the phone to answer it. When it rings and she's in the room she gets worried because she can't answer it and something might be wrong somewhere else that she needs to know about.

[Wneighbor]

Did you hear Paul Harvey in the last couple of days? He was telling about somebody up in the midwest in an upper middle class neighborhood who got tired of all the dreary snow in their yard and so the lady went and bought a couple of flamingos to brighten things up. But, then a neighbor complained - I think to the police or city council or something - but there was no code against it. But the neighbor I guess wrote a nasty letter or something and it kind of upset the lady but then she got obstinate and went and bought like 100 flamingos and put them out. And then people all up and down the block found out why she did that so like every house on the block put out huge amounts of flamingos and the whole block of the high class neighborhood was covered with them! he he he.... maybe i'll start a trend here.

[Overtaxed]

LOL No I didn't hear that. When my yankee cousin built his house, we went over for the house-warming and threatened to plant pink flamingos in his yard.

[Wneighbor]

There are really no answers to questions I think. My parents just aren't your normal people. They have some good points and some bad. This relationship with me and them is historically bad. Part of it is me and the way I used to be. But, they haven't gotten over that.

My grama doesn't particularly like being with them. She has lived on her own until this year. She got seriously ill last September and has been in and out of the hospital since that time. My mom and dad live just 9 blocks from a big hospital. She's alternated in and out of the hospital throughout the winter and when she's out she stays at my mom and dads. She wants to go home. Myranda and I picked her up and took her home for Christmas. But, that's the last time she's been there and they say she can't go back.

My grama has never liked my dad. My dad I don't guess has ever cared for her either. They are quite a bit alike in temperament. Grama is miserable there. Her home is 70 miles from my parents. When we go we usually visit during the day and I stay the night at my Grama's house. Myranda sometimes stays with Grama but sometimes leaves and goes to Grama's house with me. It just depends on the way my parents act. My dad likes Myranda a lot because she likes to go hunting and skeet shooting with him. That's good for her too but she gets upset with the way he acts toward Grama and me. She is really mad this month because of the rift over not "allowing" Grama to try to come to her graduation. Myranda has just said that if Grama can't come then she doesn't care if any of the other family comes or not. (except me.) wrote book sorry. just trying to explain the unexplainable.

[Wneighbor]

A girl I used to ride bikes with in the old lifestyle (back when not many females rode) decided that her mom needed to have flamingos all over her lawn in an upscale section of San Francisco! I never went there but Carol bought a 100 pack of the things through the mail, had them shipped to SF so they arrived while she was on a visit there and when they came proceeded to put them out all over the yard. She had photos. It was classic. She said her mom kept a couple in the flower beds after that... because it was just too funny.

[JenB]

Pink flamingos scare me!

[Wneighbor]

Pink flamingos scare me!

Then you must have a couple!!! To overcome your fears you know! 2 Tim 1:7

[osagebowman]

Hair; well, before dumps there were gulleys. Walking the woods or fields on roadway surveys, we find the old farm or house dumps, mostly rusted way but occasionally an old truck with tree growing up through the engine compartment, stuff like that. Lots of country people just filled in the hollers, a treasure trove for archeologists hundreds of years from now.

[JenB]

Nope.... those things would be sooo out of place around here! There are a lot of people with Virgin Mary statues in their front yard, or one of those stump chainsaw statues, but that's it...

[SuziQ]

temporary tattoos!

Hey! Would all y'all like to get some henna tatoos to commemorate Entmoot? I can bring down a kit a friend has. We are going to do them as a fundraiser for the Girl Scouts at our town's 4th of July party!

We had them done last summer when we went to Montreal. That way we could be 'bad' but not too bad because they wear off after about 3 weeks. ;o) I got a Kokopelli (one of my favorite little critters) and Clare got the Chinese symbol for peace.

We could even design our own tatoo like the Fellowship guys did!

[HairOfTheDog]

No... it helps. It doesn't help me understand them, but it helps me understand why it would be hard to ever fix.

[Wneighbor]

Lots of country people just filled in the hollers, a treasure trove for archeologists hundreds of years from now.

And back when us kids lived through all manner of unsafe stuff that was prime digging grounds for treasure!!!

[Wneighbor]

You need a flamingo! I think you will need one at entmoot!

[Wneighbor]

Hey!!! I'm in. I have a love of body art! And if it's henna I could even get it where you could see it at work. By the time the dean said something it would be gone.

[Wneighbor]

but it helps me understand why it would be hard to ever fix.

well, I think in the realm of the spirit, right now I'm having to learn to let go. Even though Grama fixed a lot of bad things in my life - got me away from my parents when it was most needed - I obviously can't fix it for her. I have tried. I have done everything I and my attorney know to do. But, that's it. I just love her and keep doing what I can and that's it.

And I hafta keep determining that I'm forgiving these stupid people because I'm the one that's suffering if I don't. So, over and over, I just practice letting go. of the situation and of Grama.

And I keep wishing and wishing that I was still at my old place because at least I'd be closer to Grama, but it sure is harder to let go when I'm that close all the time. I stew and stay mad. So, it's probably one reason God's got me way up here. But, that's also a reason why it feels like the slags heaps of Mordor to me.

[Wneighbor]

Going to take a warm bath now. And drink chamomile tea.

[Overtaxed]

This yankee cousin took us driving in Boston and Cambridge. "That's YoYo Ma's house." It had a low hedge in front of it - the perfect place to plant pink flamingos so they couldn't be seen from inside the house. Too bad we didn't have any with us at the time. :)

In catalogs I've seen flamingos with light bulbs inside. :)