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]

It is really a good excuse to sit around a campfire and drink beer, and get to camp with the kids in a spot where there isn't other people in a campsite ten feet away and if necessary, there is a bathroom down a path not too far away for the kids.

Sounds ideal. That was what was always nice about Grama's brothers having places. Never a worry about who might be camping close.

[HairOfTheDog]

So do you want me to send you one of these salt licks then?

[Overtaxed]

Naaahhh....let me go with the garlic first. :)

[Wneighbor]

Yeah, right after I moved in we had a very violent wind storm. Several large pieces of siding blew off and were mangled beyond salvage. Parts of the carport disappeared. No roof damage though as it was only wind.

When the adjuster came out he determined it to be $758 and some change worth of damage. My deductable is $750. I ended up getting a knowledgeable "unprofessional" to come fix it for $400 after hours. It has stayed through 3 violent storms since so I am very happy with the work. But, would really like to upgrade to some better quality siding anyway.

However, if I'm going to have damage to repair again I don't want to get totally bit in the rear by that deductable thing.

[Wneighbor]

I get a salt lick for the horses that supposedly makes them unattractive to bugs....

Gee, and they say to cut back on salt!! :-)

Scuse me. Gonna go fill the salt shakers.

[Wneighbor]

Couple weeks and you might be able to get the whole house done!

Precisely! :-)

Storms are forecast for the first part of the week. This may be the end of that drought they've been having here for 2 years. Reckon?

[Wneighbor]

Maybe I should try eating raw garlic.

I like garlic. I eat it raw and cooked. About to harvest this year's crop. Need me to send you a starter? (If it will quit raining so it'll dry and not rot)

[Wneighbor]

Brewer's yeast in dog food repels fleas they say....

Also garlic in their diet. A huge reason why Smeagol gets her eggses. They are doused with garlic. She hasn't had fleas since I started that.

[Wneighbor]

did what g'nad did. (pre-church funkle) off to get ready for church myself I guess.

[HairOfTheDog]

Scuse me. Gonna go fill the salt shakers.

It's not just the salt, it is something else they put in it... Don't start downin' salt, you need to lick these salt blocks instead.

[Overtaxed]

Kinda late to plant garlic, isn't it? Or early. I thought it did better if you plant in the fall.

I like crushed raw garlic on salads and pizza. Just can't eat it raw in large amounts

[Wneighbor]

My experience with garlic is that it doesn't care when you plant it. I had it coming up in my yard at the old place everyplace I washed it and accidentally dropped a clove!!!

There was a very old rock picnic table that my uncle remembered being behind the house when he moved next door after WWII. I used to lay the garlic out there and wash it off with the water hose when it was ready to harvest. The table was old and not level and some year I guess a clove rolled off on the ground. In all the years I lived there I was never able to stop garlic from coming up there. I dug it out several times and it always came back! LOL was like a weed!

[Wneighbor]

Thanks fer the scoop... good intel... but I don't think too many folks 'round these particular parts can spell or even remotely pronounce "Kharkagne"... which ain't a bad thing...

This might be whatchur gonna be lookin' for g'nad:

Missouri DECEMBER 2000 i live in columbia, missouri, and area that is hardly considered "chupacabra country". i must admit that up until recently i was rather skeptical, until about a week ago. i am an avid bowhunter, and spend a great deal of time pursuing the local white-tailed deer. over the past few weeks, i have discovered three carcasses that were completely drained of blood. the first doe had four puncture marks. one on the top of the neck, and 1 on the stomach. the second one, which was a small buck, had been torn apart by coyotes, but there was no blood to speak of in the snow. the third doe was very fresh. i found her last friday. i was on my way into the woods when i heard what sounded like a deer running up the hill behind me. i immediately dropped to the ground and began to sneak. i spotted it in the brush about 60 yards away. i stalked to within 20 yards only to find that it was already dead. it had not yet gone into rigor mortis and the carcass was still steaming, a sure sign that it was less than 3 hours old. the steam was radiating from a wound that ran from the base of the neck to the top of the shoulder. it was also bleeding profusely from two wounds on the neck about 2 inches apart. i decided i had better get to my hunting location. i sat for a while, and a few deer crossed the creek about 70 yards away, out of bow range. they seemed very jumpy. i stayed until the last available shooting light. i began my long trek back to the truck just as darkness fell. i was about 300 hundred yards from where i had found the doe when i heard a sound in the brush behind my. i thought nothing of it. there are many animals one may stir up in the woods at night. i got about another hundred yards before i realized it was following me. i could hear it's footsteps, and they did not sound like those of a deer, coyote, or dog. i stopped and shone my flashlight behind me, but i could see nothing, not even the tell tale eye shine of an animal. suddenly the brush moved on the hillside and i could make out a dark shape moving against the snow, and very quickly. it stopped abruptly n the hillside about 15 yards from me. i turned my flashlight in its direction. i was rather alarmed by what i saw in the shaking light. it was about 3 feet tall, baboon like, with thick, matted, dark hair. the face was baboon-like and the eyes were a little larger than those of a human being. i could not tell color because they reflected my flashlight much the way a deer in a cars headlights does. it ran up the hill. i put an arrow on my bow, and continued towards the truck at a more rapid pace. i heard it again, this time running straight at me. i could make out it's shape about 15 yards away, and coming fast. i blindly fired an arrow in it's direction, and by some stroke of god i hit it and it ran away. i then left the woods very very quickly. the next morning i came back, this time with a high powered rifle in case it showed up again. i began trailing it. the tracks were about ten feet apart when it ran, and two feet apart when it was walking. it walked on all fours. i found a few splatters of blood, but it was bright red, signaling a muscle hit, not a vital one. i trailed it for a very long time, almost a mile. it went on to a rocky hilltop where there was no snow, and try as i might, i could not recover the trail. i don't know what was, but this so called "chupacabra" seems like the best candidate.

If you see it. Just do what you did with the snake. And we will expect photos!!!

[HairOfTheDog]

Off to finish the weedwacking in the witch's circle...

I should wear some garlic!

;~D

[Overtaxed]

Okay...I got the conversion software to work.....sort of. I can get "Concerning Hobbits" translated from *.mid to *abc. Now I have to figure out how to save the output!

[Overtaxed]

Okay....got the file saved but it wigs my ABC software out LOL!

[JenB]

Afternoon, all. Lovely day here so I think I'll be online ;)

There was a motorcycle procession on our way back from church. Thousands of bikes, it seemed, on the other side of the highway. It took at least three miles for them to pass us, and we were moving steadily at the time. What a sight!

[Overtaxed]

Afternoon!

This bright orange thing keeps trying to appear in the skies overhead. The race just started and I no longer have an ice cream problem. :)

[JenB]

Hee... I'm waiting for a friend to arrive and talk to me...

[Overtaxed]

I'm waiting for a dwarf to show up.