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]

So what we should be praying for you is succint precision in your speech? Instead of hours of elven song and dance?

[Wneighbor]

Good morning to you too.

[Wneighbor]

I know what you mean about the chips keeping their shape. When I tried to melt some chips recently, it looked as though they hadn't melted, yet when I stirred them, they were soft!

That's what mine did too but the chocolate was still kind of grainy or something. When I made my cheesecake with a chocolate swirl I added some margerine to them to make them swirl.

[Sam Cree]

It's nice being up early. Falling asleep at 8:30 or so in the evening can mess up being social, though.

However, I am finding that waking up early becomes unavoidable with age, no matter when I fall asleep, so I try not to stay up so late anymore. Until recently, though, I could sleep in with no problem, now I don't need an alarm anymore.

I find the Latin habit of eating dinner around 8:30 every night, then taking a nap the next afternoon, slightly bemusing.

[Lil'freeper]

We're checking on that. They give you a general 'four months including permitting' time frame with the understanding that delays may occur. But, we're three months into the proccess and I don't even have a hole in the ground yet. I am beginning to get aggravated. It may be time to get a lawyer. I need to take on my condo association for breech of contract so I could lump this in as well and get two birds with one stone. Grrrr....

[Wneighbor]

Well, I'm funkling again. But anyway.

You know, I noticed that too, about the chocolate chips! Humph!

It seems like they must think that the only thing people use chocolate chips for is cookies. I don't make cookies because we don't like cookies. But, I need melted ones in several of my favorite recipes. It looks like they'd have left them alone and made some special for chips or something. I'm going to try those discs or that Ghiradelli that Suzi was talking about next time I make something.

[Lil'freeper]

Mmmmm....cheesecake. A surprisingly good breakfast item.

[Sam Cree]

IMO, store bought cookies are bad for you, because of the partially hydrogenated oil in them.

[Wneighbor]

I find the Latin habit of eating dinner around 8:30 every night, then taking a nap the next afternoon, slightly bemusing.

I fell in love with that habit when we were in Venezuela for a month. That was during my factory time and they are on Eastern time. My body clock was getting me up at 3:40. So, I'd get up, read, do everything the family did then we'd have afternoon siesta, and THEY would go until after midnight. I was usually having to politely excuse myself at least an hour before that.

Now I have found that I have so much trouble being at my best to teach the night classes that if I nap at leaast 20 minutes in the afternoon I do much better in the night class.

[Wneighbor]

If the lawyer isn't able to give satisfaction about the contractor due to a loose contract you may consider biting the bullet and going with another contractor.

[Wneighbor]

Mmmmm....cheesecake. A surprisingly good breakfast item.

As I was typing that out I was thinking, Hmmm, maybe I should make a cheesecake at Entmoot.

[Wneighbor]

The only kind of cookies that I've found I really like and will go out of my way to have are those recipes that I got from Bear and Rose. Otherwise, cookies just don't fit into my food list. ALTHOUGH almost everything else on the face of the earth does... well, I don't care for cake either. But, I make up for that in pie, cobbler and ice cream.

[Overtaxed]

Good Morning! It's Friday...yay!!

[Overtaxed]

Are you a bit more anticipatory about your move after talking to the realtor? Or just flat not wanting to go?

Well.....I am a bit more anticipatory but lazy about the whole moving process. I want a transporter beam to just poof me and all my stuff to the new place.

[Wneighbor]

I want a transporter beam to just poof me and all my stuff to the new place.

Believe me, I do know how that feels. After doing all the moving myself up here.... that's the only thing horrible when I think about moving back home.

[Overtaxed]

I don't make cookies because we don't like cookies.

What?

[AnAmericanMother]

I know exactly the sort of horse owner you mean (can't be much of a horse if it's only ridden once a week . . . ) but our man caters to the fox-hunting and high-end eventing and steeplechase crowd. He really is extremely good (and extremely expensive - last time he did a horse for me was about 10 years ago and he charged 125 all round. Of course it was a specialty job and a lot of the price was the shoes. But, still . . . ) He is also thinking about retiring (he's been shoeing to my knowledge for 30 years) and I don't know what we're going to do when he takes the plunge. Maybe he will take on an apprentice and turn over his business to him.

[Overtaxed]

Should I be expecting Frodo today? Good thing I vacuumed the living room!

[RosieCotton]

I hated the pre-electric typwriters. I always had to hit the keys hard and my fingers would go down in between the keys and my cuticles would get all cut up.

*shudder*

Mom started us typing on an old Smith-Corona. I can remember exactly what it felt like to do that! And my pinkies would get sooooo sore...partly because of the strength needed and partly because they were less accurate and tended to dive between the keys more often than my other fingers. Ouch!

[Wneighbor]

We like pie. And cobbler. and cheesecake. ice cream. pudding. cinnamon rolls. various other ooey gooey stuff but not cookies or cake.