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.

[SuziQ]

I'll be happy to drive them nuts.
It's my job.

It's a tough job, Master Dwarf, but you do it SO well! ;o)

[Corin Stormhands]

Thanky ma'am.

[300winmag]

When I have to give a pill that they won't eat I put it in an old paste wormer syringe, pour some syrup over it, let it sit till it dissolves, and squirt it in. Horses like syrup:)

Marl used to take the big "horse pills", put them in a sock, and then smash it with a hammer, and mix it (minus the sock) into the horse's grain. Now she uses a small battery-powered coffee grinder, and divides the grain ration in half. The medicine goes in the first half of the grain, and the horse knows he has no to right to complain about "where's the rest of my grain?" until the first half is eaten.

As Marl says, horses can't count, but they sure can measure. Every one knows how much grain he's supposed to get, down to the last milligram. She also has molassses mixed in with her feed, so she gets no complaints from any of the horses in the food department.

[ksen]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROSE!!!!!!

Hey Bear! Buy Rose something nice and expensive and tell her its from all of us. ;^D

[HairOfTheDog]

Heh! - Good work on the bridling!

Bay does not like his face washed, the key is to get taller than him. I have been known to sit on the fence and do it.

[SuziQ]

That's what mine did too but the chocolate was still kind of grainy or something.

Yeah, some of them turn out that way. If you could find this melting chocolate, I bet you'd like it!

[HairOfTheDog]

Bay will not touch grain with Bute in it, no matter how much molasses I put in. Perhaps other kinds of pills, but he hates bute. I have to syringe it.

[SuziQ]

Hmmm, maybe I should make a cheesecake at Entmoot.

Oh yeah!!

[RMDupree]

The real spammer was last seen here..

[SuziQ]

When I finally went electric, it was to a huge Smith-Corona "portable" (if you had a hand truck).

SSQ bought his Mom and Dad a computer, and set it up for them so they could do e-mail and stuff. She liked it a lot, but enjoyed typing cards, etc, as well. She had had arthritis in her hands for years, so typed most everything. She had an old Smith Corona Portable Electric ( a manageable size), but never could find ribbons for it! I managed to find a place here in town that could order them and we got a helf dozen for her. She loved that typewriter!

[SuziQ]

it also sounds kinda weird - lots of people dressed up and play acting that it's 1484.

LOL! Sounds like fun! We have a thing near us called "King Richard's Faire", it is like a Late Medieval/Early Renaissance festival with knights on horseback doing jousting and other demostrations, and folks doing crafts of the era. It runs for several weeks in the Fall. We've never been, but I'd like to take the kids when we start studying the Medieval era, which will be year after next. Their studies and reading will mean more to them if they can connect it with something more 'real'.

[SuziQ]

LOL at the picture of the old typewriter! I graduated college with a Business minor, and one of the classes I had to take was 'Business Machines". Now this was 1973, but we had these HUGE old cash registers and calculators. One of them was at least 2' tall by 3' wide! You had to enter every digit of each part of an operation before doing it. It is what was used before electronic calculators, I guess. Why on earth we had to learn to use them was beyond me. I guess if you were going to work for some company from the 1920s that had NEVER updated its office machines it would have been useful!

[Corin Stormhands]

Their studies and reading will mean more to them if they can connect it with something more 'real'.

Hmmm...that's an idea for the Mrs. She's doing ancient and British lit next year.

[2Jedismom]

I have one of those! My parents did anyway...with the big handle out the side too! I used it a lot just for fun when I was a kid...wrote long stories and sappy peoms on it.

[SuziQ]

doesn't everybody have a two-handed Viking sword behind the laundry room door? :-D )

ROTFL!! Our kids are into Live Action Role playing, so we have the swords, javelins, bows and arrows and pikes!! They're usually in the basement or the garage.

[2Jedismom]

On the whistle forum, you find about 50-50 people that like those ren-faire things and those that disdain them.

I've seen it get rather heated (as whistle players can get, at times).

When I was a drama major at Sam Houston State...the drama dept was big into the Texas Renassainse festival. Weeks before it started, they started acting like they lived in that time period.

I thought they were all absolute loons. Because of that, it'll probably be a while before I'll spend that much money to go to one.

[SuziQ]

A friend gave me an old stereo with a turntable

Oh how neat!! I've been thinking of getting a new one for SSQ for Father's Day. We have some great old albums we haven't played in 15 yrs.!!

[RosieCotton]

The one here is $4, and 12 and under free...cheap.

Still worried about the loon factor, tho. ;-)

[2Jedismom]

http://www.texrenfest.com/

We're off to get the chicks!! See you later.

[RMDupree]

In defense of loons, there are folks in FR who think we're just as nuts! :)

And we think nothing of talking about wearing elven style cloacks and such.