I see a lot of similar stories here about wandering free and living like feral kids but I want to second making homemade Explosives from hobby shop Rocket engines.

Portland OR has more strip clubs per capita than anywhere else in the US. During covid when clubs were closed dancers were driving for a door dash service called Boober Eats.

I forget if it was on the day or day after, but while the events of 9/11 were unfolding or coming to light I had a social studies teacher claim the plane that crashed in the field was an attack on our agriculture.

There are three groups of Halflings that settled in The Shire at different times. The Fallohides are tall, have good relations with Elves, and are more adventurous than other halflings. By Bilbo and Frodos time Hobbits have homogenized, but the Baggins and other ‘upper class’ Hobbits still share Fallohide characteristics. Fallohides were sort of the ‘noble’ halflings, and Bilbo and Frodo are Fallohides. I don’t remember Gandalf having any canon links to halflings before The Shire (disregarding Rings of Power) but it would have had to have been well before even the founding of The Shire, because the Fallohides already had an established identity. Anyway I like it. Gandalfs great work culminating in his line producing Frodo, the Hobbit hero who destroyed the ring and sailed west with his own greatx57 grandfather.

When my beagle was a baby she would stand in front of the couch, under the coffee table, stare at the couch, crouch, line up her shot, jump up and bang her head on the coffee table. She did this often enough to earn her the title Silly Bonks. Her full name is Princess Fancy Pants ‘Silly Bonks’ of House Cuddlepup.

I also recently taught her to stand up on her hind legs and spin around. Sometimes she jumps up and spins so aggressively she falls over.

She will run as hard and fast as she can on wet grass at the park and fall and just roll like three or four times, I’m not sure if shes slipping or doing it on purpose.

She learned if she stands on the couch she can reach out and put her front paws on the doorknob to look out the window in the front door. She had a couple good tumbles before she figured out how to properly dismount that one.

My crockpot pretty much always has some chicken soup. Potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, bell pepper, zucchini, onion, celery, and chicken breast. I eat this a lot for lunch, especially at work in a to go container.

I also eat a smoothie pretty much every day, which I call my fruit soup. Fresh apples and bananas, some frozen fruit usually berries mangoes or peaches, fresh greens either spinach or kale, honey, mushroom blend powder, beetroot powder, turmeric powder, vanilla or chocolate flavored protein powder, Greek style yogurt, and probiotic kefir. I make a blenderfull and fill three or four shaker bottles, they last as long as I dont skip days.

I dont always eat breakfast but usually oatmeal with maple syrup and brown sugar or cold cereal. Sometimes just a banana or a muffin.

Sandwiches, I always have bread and meat and cheese and mustard and mayo and almond butter and jelly. And lately frozen sausage patties, sometimes for breakfast sandwiches. Sometimes I just eat sandwich meat wrapped in cheese, unwiches.

Sheperds pie casserole. I always have a box or two of instant potato flakes, some canned veggies, and frozen beef. Layer of potatoes, browned meat, canned veggies (I like corn green beans and saurkraut) and sometimes cheese, then another layer of potato, throw it in the oven. I buy plain potato flakes and season them myself. It’s all non perishable and quick, easy and hearty.

This and a variety of burritos from the place near my work (when my boss is buying) is probably 90% of what I eat.

John Brown has been writhing and spinning (and mouldering) in his grave for a very long time. Vengeful Wraith of John Brown for President!

Boxes within boxes with different recipients. You hand the gift to the first recipient, who unwraps a plain cardboard box, opens it, and finds a gift wrapped with a bow and a new recipient. The gift is handed to the next recipient who repeats the process, and the gift moves on. The final tiny box is a dollar store magnet. The first box was the size of a refrigerator. Everyone gets a present.

Inside the microwave.

Doesn’t he go to Valinor to die though? He doesn’t live forever just because he was a ringbearer, he went for some healing and respite before moving on to the Doom of Hobbits. I always thought the Quest and the Wound caused him to ‘die’ young, he never healed, he left for Valinor, had a nice peaceful nap in Elvenlands, and died happy.

Thanks Mr. Skeltal

Personally I don’t like comparing Elon to Elmo, Elmo is a good person. I get that it infantilizes Elon, but in my mind there is nothing negative about Elmo, and it grinds my gears when people call that human waste by the name of such a sweet caring individual.

I used to work in landscape installation building water features. I designed and built fish ponds.

Walton Goggins, but he plays me at every age like John C. Reilly in Walk Hard.

I dated a girl who was militant about the seed end being the RIGHT end and anyone opening it from the bunch end was wrong. Her reasoning is that in cartoons the banana peel that characters slip on is ALWAYS opened by the seed end.

Didn’t the ring slip away from Gollum because it sensed Sauron gaining strength? I thought it was dormant more than anything. If the ring had somewhere better to be it would have acted on Gollum sooner. Gollum chilled in the cave for 500 years because that’s what the ring wanted to do, just waiting for its master.

Sorry I’m not sure, I tried looking but I couldn’t find it. Good luck!