The Hobbit Hole IV – The Road Goes Ever On…

[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

The Road Goes Ever On…

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

[2Jedismom]

Well, you might as well get started since you killed the thread...

;-)

[Prof Engineer]

I don't think Hair would take kindly to ~800 Spam posts. I could be wrong, however.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Did that at a place I once worked... the guys who did it took some pity, though, by leaving the majority of the peanuts in the plastic bags they came in. Just a (relatively) few loose peanuts around the edges to make it look realistic!

[JenB]

I would do that but we don't have cubicles, just desks.

[HairOfTheDog]

I don't think Hair would take kindly to ~800 Spam posts. I could be wrong, however.

But who the heck cares what I think?

[Prof Engineer]

THANK YOU!!!!! I've been looking for that machine gunner for weeks.

[2Jedismom]

Oh my stars, I'm having a rigor...

Matthew was supposed to do that knife safety and soap carving business this past weekend with his fellow scouts and with Steve and we forgot.

Anyway, I just spoke with his den leader and she was less than pleased, because she had planned on us being there. Now, she said she'd accept Matthew's carving, but he has to pass an exam before he can get his Whittling Chip Card...the other boys already did.

I need to breath into a sack or something...I'm having a rigor. I hope he can pass the exam...they had other stuff other than the book to study with...and I don't have that stuff. It's not catastrophic, we can just get the stuff and make it up...but all the REST of the troop will be getting another red bead tonight...and if Matthew doesn't pass, he won't get the bead. I can't bear to see that! I would just cry.

[Prof Engineer]

Relax. Prolly just a quiz on knife safety and handling. looks like Steve showed him more than enough to do that.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Hobbit Hole IV
Weekly Post Count, Week 18
(Dec. 1 through Dec. 7)

Daily Count, Total, Average
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	Tot	Avg
271	515	576	392	507	180	263	2704	386

Top Ten
Rank	Poster	#Posts
1.	Wneighbor	460
2.	Corin Stormhands	240
3.	Prof Engineer	221
4.	Overtaxed	198
5.	HairOfTheDog	197
6.	2Jedismom	188
7.	Ramius	154
8.	Bear_in_RoseBear	147
9.	JenB	142
10.	Darksheare	132

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[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Hobbit Hole IV
Weekly Post Count, Week 18
(Dec. 1 through Dec. 7)

Continued from previous message...

All Posters
Poster	Week 18	To Date	Poster	Week 18	To Date
2Jedismom	188	3084	300winmag	23	404
Alkhin	11	211	AnAmericanMother	16	16
Argh	2	109	Bear_in_RoseBear	147	1755
BrokenArrow	1	19	Corin Stormhands	240	4197
Darksheare	132	395	DCBryan1	6	28
ecurbh	29	1238	Fire-Breathing_Freeper	1	11
fnord	1	1	g'nad	46	1290
Graybeard58	7	18	HairOfTheDog	197	4756
JenB	142	2140	John Farson	1	6
ksen	18	966	Lil'freeper	86	1010
msdrby	27	523	mstar	19	511
My back yard	39	698	osagebowman	10	336
Overtaxed	198	1683	Pan_Yans Wife	1	4
Prof Engineer	221	2888	PurpleQ	35	107
Pyro7480	1	1	Ramius	154	2465
Rocko	1	16	Rose in RoseBear	2	545
RosieCotton	124	3275	Sam Cree	27	804
Samwise	3	177	sauropod	1	1
Scott from the Left Coast	16	405	SuziQ	55	1831
The Iguana	9	36	trini	2	244
Willie Green	1	16	Wneighbor	460	8336
xzins	4	4

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Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7,
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Week 15, Week 16, Week 17

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[2Jedismom]

And we've covered everything in the handbook, what more could they want?? And he even has the cotton-pickin' Knife Safety Pledge memorized!

I'm not going. Steve'll have to take him...it was his responsibility to get him to the den meeting this past Sat and although I forgot about it too...it wasn't my reponsibility. But in his defense, he didn't get home till fairly late Friday, due to working on his final exam.

[msdrby]

Show her yer proof!! print out the pics.

BTW, I remember doing that with my dad when I was a kiddo, only it wasn't for a badge. (He just wanted his knives sharpened, hehe.) Seriesly, though, my dad was ALWAYS sharpening his blades. Ya gotsta have sharp tools when yer gonna do a bit o carving in some fine maple. He showed me how to use the chisel, too, but I never really caught on that well. My curly-cues were never as cool as his were.

[2Jedismom]

I already did...and she was ok with that too...I printed out the pictures and then Matthew described underneath what was happening in each picture.

But she implied (correctly) that it really wasn't fair to the other boys...

I feel dreadful.

[JenB]

Thanks Bear!

When will we run out of room again?

[Prof Engineer]

Gees, you'd think they were talkin' religion over there. Ugh

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

When will we run out of room again?

Mid-January probably!

[Prof Engineer]

He'll do fine. You and Steve and doing a great job.

[HairOfTheDog]

Darlin' drink some Chamomile! He's five... I hardly think he wants to grow up knowing his Mom had a rigor over the possibility of him not doing well enough on a Boy Scout Test!

[JenB]

Are you counting on a post-RotK talk-fest there?

[HairOfTheDog]

Thank you for all your archivist work Bear! ~GRIN~