Isabella

sparrow: Aw, I never knew. :/ Right now I'm too cheap for cable we're trying to save for a house. But thanks for telling me, I'll look forward to watching it when I have it again. :)

I really miss shows like Unsolved Mysteries, but I do have a great one called Ghost Stories I got on DVD for 20 dollars at Best Buy in the "collections section" of the store. If you like ghost story style shows, it's great! I think you have to be skeptical, regardless if you believe in ghosts or not, sometimes folks take it all for face value, without investigation. I've been developing my mediumship skills over the past year. I worked for a while as an intutive healer learning to develope and work with subtle energies over the past six years. These have been really great experiances, and I am facinated with the process. I believe anyone is capable of learning it. It doesn't make anyone speical or better, it's just like learning to ride a bike or work on cars. It's a speicalized skill. Sometimes those of us feel drawn to work with it in the compasity of ghost hunting, or helping others. I, in particular am facinated with ghost hunting, and ghost work of any kind. Our area is part of the Underground Rail road, and Civil War training camps. It can get pretty hairy at night driving through some of the areas, because you "think" you see folks walking along the road, only to get up on them and there is nobody there. When I moved from California, which doesn't have as many old buildings as Ohio, it made me gasp sometimes, because sometimes areas would be so intense, angry or bubbly. It was a WHOLE new learning curve living here where history is so litterly alive at every corner. There is supose to be a night up in Mansfield, OH where you can stay the night at a old prison that is haunted. A friend and mine are going to go, if you are local to us and interested in going, we wouldn't mind going with a group. I'm going to try and get more information, if this seems like something someone would like to do. They only allow people to stay on certain days of the year, but I'd be interested. I'd like to read more about the place, but since it's legal to investigate there, I am more comfterable with going. :) Oh here we go, it's in October, how fitting. *laughs* They do it every weekend in October. Ah, Mansfield was where Shawshank Redemption was partically filmed to give you an idea.

My husband digs ManOWar, but I can't say I like them all that much. I like the older style heavy metal, Iron Maiden, Dio, etc. I like Type O Negative, but their more Goth Metal, but when Peter Steele was involved with Carnivore (sp?) they were pretty heavy.

*laughs* Now isn't that a funny coincidence! It isn't the Egyptian Priest one is it? Hee Hee! Oh cool! I'll tell him!

I've never been on a ghost hunt, but I've consulted on a few haunted for friends of mine. :)

I'll tell my husband, he always loves finding a unknown heavy metal group. I got him Sirius Radio two years ago for his birthday and he's loving it because he's hearing some things he's not been familiar with before. Iced Earth is a great group from Indiana if you haven't heard them I might suggest checking into www.icedearth.com Great sound. Rob Halford is their lead singer now. :)

I've always loved things on hauntings. I've had some crazy experiances around our area. Paranomal activities always interests me. :)

The Air Conditioner in D, because it's bloody hot outside.

Maybe Pirate week on Barefoot Cruises. The captain can marry ya on one of those "mysterious islands" that they come across for lunches that noone lives on. Lucky Pirate! I wish we had the money to go on this trip. :) It would be a bast! Lucky Morgan's wife! *grins*

We have a Strickly Sails store here also. :) That might be fun! :) I was going to take sailing courses via them to rebrush up on what I used to know.

Morgan, You sure we're not family? I'm mean really, cause I did fill that dang form out! ROFL Like a month ago. Wooo! Irony would be if we won and had to drag wife/husband on a pirates trip with us! Can you imagine their faces and we run through the streets like insane 9 year old kids high on sugar screaming "Where's the pirates!! I wanna see Pieces of Eight! Oooo!!!! Ahhh!!!" *giggles* I feel for my husband right about now.

But I can't find it. Hubs and I were having dinner the other night in Max and Erma's a burger joint here, and I'm looking at this giant Valencia Orange painting of a Pirate Wench eating oranges, with a island scene and a pirate ship behind her. I'm chuckling since my aunt lived in Valencia, but the company is marked "Orange County, Calif." (where I was born and raised) So I try really hard not to go and pry this huge thing off the wall and drag it home for my living room! If only! So I have to get up and look at the other stuff on the walls, and on the wall, just to the left is a framed photo of a menu from DA DAHH the Pirate Ship Restraunt in Disneyland! Talk about weird, because folks were talking about this one, and there it was on the wall framed with birthday party photos in the retraunt and photos of the Restraunt and the paper napkin looking menu. I'm going to try and get a photo of the wall for you all, since it was funny ironic and gave me a happy chuckle. :) Isabella

When are they starting new construction? I'd like to see it the way it was one more time before they begin changing it. :) For the child inside me is stomping her foot.

*rubs butt* Ow..yeah yeah it helped!

I use a heming foot with a 1/8th inch opening, and then run it along a 60 inch piece of fabric cut to size, etc wanted.

Period, but not crazy enough to sew it all by hand. Woof. I love to be historically on target, but I'm not that patient.

That's awesome! :) Kick me to scan in those trim patterns. :)

Over 21, check. Willing to hang in pirate themed areas, check. I'll be there with bells on. :) Now when we can nail down a date I can offer an "offical" Aye! :) Heck, even if I have to miss half of Celebration, I'd rather be there. :)

Adder, I was in Friends of Faire too. Lo' so many years ago now. :) Isabella

Tab, Good keep us posted, because I would hate to see "home" go.

I am not sure where to exactly post this message, but a friend of mine mailed this forward. I spent many years at Devore, and I am sad to see this message cross my screen. Link to Article Annual event needs to find new home By SCOTT VANHORNE, Staff Writer Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - The Renaissance Pleasure Faire, which drew thousands of revelers to Glen Helen Regional Park in Devore for a taste of 16th-century English flair, will have to find a new home, county officials said Tuesday. "There will be no fair this year," San Bernardino County Counsel Fiona Luke said. "The parties are going to work out an agreement to terminate the contract." The 10-year lease agreement between the county and the fair required Renaissance Entertainment Corp. to make improvements to its permanent site at the park, including adding restrooms and improved food preparation areas. But after about a year of negotiations, both sides were unable to reach an agreement, and the 15-year marriage between the two has landed on the chopping block. "The county did everything it could to work with the Renaissance Faire and try and get compliance with the lease, but it just didn't happen," county spokesman David Wert said. Officials from Renaissance Entertainment Corp., based in Louisville, Colo., could not be reached for comment. Ted Durden, general manager of the fair, is on a cruise and was unavailable for comment. The fair, which lasted for six to eight weeks in the spring, drew about 200,000 people annually and boosted the local economy, said Steve Henthorn, president and chief executive of the San Bernardino Convention and Visitors Bureau. "It's a crowd that generally has money to spend," he said. Henthorn estimated the event funneled about $10 million into the local economy as fair attendees patronized local restaurants, hotels, bars and other businesses. San Bernardino Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Judi Penman was shocked when she heard about the parting of ways. "I would like to know if the county powers-that-be really worked seriously with the Renaissance Faire to solve these problems and keep them there," she said. "(The fair) gives San Bernardino a very positive name. I just don't understand." Second District Supervisor Paul Biane said he secured a $350,000 state grant to help the fair pay for the required improvements, but the parent company didn't come up with matching funds, which were about 20 percent of the total. The renovations were necessary to maintain public safety at the mass gathering, he said. "They were typical code violations that we wouldn't allow anywhere else," Biane said. In addition, "the rundown shanty village" that is home to the fair was hurting regular park attendance, the supervisor said. This isn't the first time the county and fair have jousted. In 1996, fair officials announced they were moving because they wanted a permanent site and couldn't hammer out a deal with the county, which had leased them land at Glen Helen Regional Park since 1989 after the event departed from Agoura in the San Fernando Valley. The two sides finally reached an accord, and the fair was able to build some permanent structures at the park. Staff writer Ed Mauel contributed to this report. Scott Vanhorne can be reached by phone at (909) 386-3878.

Pete: That's nifty about said armor. The guys that do it now are fanatical as your guy sounded. Check out the www.501st.com for a more interesting detail of "fanatical". The costumes are cool, yes, styrine vacume formed and then cleaned. I am impressed by the construction, it's nifty. Our grandmother has one that sounds like your kitties twin. He's all black, but on Christmas she told us they figured out how long they've had him. The cat is two years younger than me! He's getting so old his all black coat now has white in it. I dont' know where she'd be with out her kitties. Speaking of kitties, I better go save our Christmas tree, it just shuttered under kitty rough housing!

I be familiar with the 501st. :) I was a starwars costumer for a long while there. :) Never felt the need to dress up as a trooper, but my goal is when I loose all my weight, I want to go as a female Boba Fett. ROFL that will be a sight. But you know what, I'll still be hot in all the armor. :) Bobalicious! April is good, even the weekend of said con, cause it means I could bail early and drive to Chicago since we'd be half way there to begin with. We're still on the "are we going to the con" phase. Right now it's about time off etc. So we'll see. I think time off won't be a problem. I'd rather be with my pirates than with the star wars geeks honestly. :) I love my pirates!

Captain, I am so sorry to hear about your kitty. *hugs hugs hugs* You guys holding up alright? Thank you for thinking of me when you went to dine! That was ultra sweet of you to remember. :)

I just realized something, that we already had an engagement to go to the StarWars Celebration 3 in Indy in April 20-25th. I am really hoping that this Welcome home isn't the same weekend, or else we're outta luck. Can we start talking about maybe "when" in April, so we have an idea of if and "how" we'll end up making it. :) Thanks~ Isabella