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grammaboodawg
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May 24 2008, 10:30am
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I noticed the avatar and footer pics. I literally shuddered and gasped. Tell her WELL DONE!!! :D
You have a great one, too... sweet Lady :D
 
Trust him... The Hobbit is coming!
"Barney Snow was here." ~Hug like a hobbit!~ "In my heaven..."
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One Ringer
Tol Eressea
May 24 2008, 12:38pm
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Sorry for being late, last night I went and saw Indiana Jones 4 (which is an excellent movie I might add). I can't wait for the chat! It's going to be great! 
Ash nazg durbatulūk, Ash nazg gimbatul,
Ash nazg thrakatulūk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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May 24 2008, 2:28pm
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We visited five cemeteries yesterday, and most of them were very ordinary. But the fifth one was a little surprising. The gate was padlocked, and there was a sign saying "Plague Warning". Inside were huge prairie-dog holes down into the graves, which were grown over with wild irises. We've been there many times before, and it's always been wild, but the lock and warning sign were new. We climbed through the barbed wire and left flowers on my husband's great-grandparents' grave anyway. The hill where the cemetery is is also a holy site for local Native Americans, who do ceremonies there sometimes. Their holy site is a little further up the hill. They had to sue the city to be allowed access, since it's the site of an old mine.
I'm not sure how I feel about having a prairie-dog village tunneling through the graveyard. On the one hand it seems disrespectful, but on the other it seems natural.
Here are some photos (the last one is my husband's great-grandparents' grave):
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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"A Chance Meeting at Rivendell" and other stories
leleni at hotmail dot com
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(This post was edited by Aunt Dora Baggins on May 24 2008, 2:30pm)
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dernwyn
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May 25 2008, 1:02pm
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If the authorities are so concerned about prairie-dog-borne plague, and I'm assuming they have proof that there's at least one critter there with the disease, then why didn't they destroy those burrows and the animals in them? As if an infectious disease can be confined to a graveyard!
But it's good to see that the stones have remained untouched. I think you have a perfect way to celebrate "Memorial" Day!
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
"It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?"
-Geoffrey B. Smith, letter to JRR Tolkien, 1915
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Dreamdeer
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May 25 2008, 6:27pm
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Because destroying the animals only means that the fleas--the real vectors of the disease--have to move on to new hosts--like maybe us. There is no thorough way to destroy the animals and their burrows without the tiny fleas escaping, short of a rather large bomb.
One way of controlling plague in an infected animal population is to place bait where it can only be reached through a tunnel that brushes the animal with flea powder. That's what they do in California, where plague has been endemic for years yet rarely ever reaches human beings, and so far has never gone pneumatic. They flea-dust rodents close to human habitations.
My website http://www.dreamdeer.grailmedia.com offers fanfic, and message-boards regarding intentional community or faerie exploration.
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dernwyn
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May 26 2008, 3:49am
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If that's the way to control it
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then now I'm wondering why they didn't do just that: pour flea powder down the holes! Makes a lot more sense than posting a warning sign.
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
"It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?"
-Geoffrey B. Smith, letter to JRR Tolkien, 1915
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