The Hobbit Hole IV – The Road Goes Ever On…

[RosieCotton]

Mine?

[RMDupree]

Missing you guys on a Monday morning.

[2Jedismom]

Good morning!!!!

[RosieCotton]

Hi, Ruthy! We miss you, too!

Happy Monday!

[Wneighbor]

We lose more people to crime in California every day than we do occupying Iraq and Afghanistan combined....

I agree. Well said.

Look at the total number of people we have lost in the terrorist's attacks in the last decade +. 1st WTC bombing, Cole, 2nd bombing, Pentegon, Pennysylvania, embassy attacks. The attacks were constantly escalating. Count the losses in those attackes and compare with what we've had in Afghanistan and Iraq. That is a hard thing for me to say with my s-i-l there. But, I also know what he would say and he's with you and I. This is the way it gets stopped. We either pay it now, or lose more until we decide to do it. Or we lose our way of life. To me, it's that simple.

[2Jedismom]

Good morning! I'm logging off for a while, gotta get breakfast and school started!

The packages look GREAT! I'll send some more funds mid-month.

Expect me when you see me!

[Wneighbor]

Morning 2J. Just got through reading and catching up on the thread. Everybody else said what I thought about Josh's first day of school. And you've come to that conclusion yourself.

I only wish I'd have had a mom who was concerned about my comfort and ability to play at school instead of dressing me all up in frou-frou dresses with lace and junk. Which is the equivalent of what those other mom's dressed their kids in. Give me Levis and a T-Shirt any day and you've got a comfy gal! That's how we want the Jedi's too.

Besides, we already know how well-adjusted the Jedi's are so let's just let 'em be regular people. Not plastic dress-up dolls.

[HairOfTheDog]

Good morning g'nad, and good luck today.......

Good morning everyone!

[Wneighbor]

Morning Ruthy! ((((((((((RUTHY))))))))))

Waiting for the plumber again. Have seasonal allergies this morning. Not quite up to par.

[Wneighbor]

Morning Rose! Love the new footwear. We're gonna need to see a picture of 'em ON your feet one of these days. And not one of them kind where YOU hold the camera either. We want the full Rosie shot. with shoes.

[Wneighbor]

My bow is following along at need.

[Wneighbor]

Morning HOTD!!!

Were your ears burning last night?

[HairOfTheDog]

Nope! They weren't!

[HairOfTheDog]

And good morning!

Should they have been?

[Wneighbor]

Oh gees no. no reason. none at all. none whatsoever. *WN whistling in the breeze*

[HairOfTheDog]

I think you can be a lot of things, WN, but convincingly innocent is not one of them! ;~D

[Corin Stormhands]

Since you were on a genealogy trip last week, I meant to tell you this. Our pastor's wife told an incredible story yesterday.

Her parents came here from Poland after WWII. Basically they had "two feather pillows and a feather comforter." Little else, no family heirlooms, pictures, etc. As an aside a number of years ago our pastor was able to introduce his f-i-l to a man who was with the U.S. forces that freed the concentration camp where our pastor's wife's father was.

Anyway, Pastor and his wife and daughter went to Slovakia this summer to meet with missionaries we support there. They decided that since they were so close they would also go to Poland. Trouble was, they had no information, no names, no addresses etc.

So they had her mother trace the routes on a map (the villages were so small they were not on the map). This she did from her memories of 60 years ago.

In one village, they had decided the would have no luck. The daughter pointed to some older women sitting on a bench and said "Mom, why don't you as those ladies?" (Helen speaks fluent Polish). So she did. The first four ladies knew nothing. Another came along and another. Also nothing. Finally a lady came along and said "That's my best friend."

Helen was connected with her mom's cousin, her dad's cousin. And they were able to see her mom's home and the location of her dad's farm.

When they went to visit her dad's cousin, the gentleman was quite confused. His wife was a little better. But she pulled out a photo album. A picture fell out and she started to stuff it back in the album. She didn't know who the people were.

But Helen grabbed it. It was a picture of Helen, her brother and her parents from the early 50s.

[Corin Stormhands]

I think you can be a lot of things, WN, but convincingly innocent is not one of them!

WN is a

[Prof Engineer]

... battle axe, throwing axes, atl-atl, shotgun and .00 buck... yep... I'm packed...

A well prepared Marine, being necessary for the common defense, shall not be never be treated with disrespect. Go get 'em.

[Wneighbor]

I think you can be a lot of things, WN, but convincingly innocent is not one of them!

You haven't seen me yet when I convincinly want to be! LOL

You would have liked being at our moot. But, I'm sure you would have liked the Traveling Moot Show's first moot more! ~grin~