Old Crow

Thank you, everyone who voted... we took #5.

Thanks for the compliments on the ring also... I will have to post photos of the newest necklace.

And Again, I Thank You! Contest ends in just over a week.

Thank you!!!

Well now, my friends,

Some of you have seen the jewelry I make.

I need your help. The local TV station has a "best of" contest going, and my store, Foxfire Custom Jewelers was nominated as best designer jeweler. I was at #2 and have fallen to #4, AAArgh!

I need some Pirates to storm the place and take #1!

Just follow this link: Vote for Me!

Thanks So Much,

Old Crow

AKA Michael Babinski of Foxfire Custom Jewelers

Oh, verry nice!!

Man, too bad it isn't October. I will have 10 of my crewe up there to put on our pirate dinner show for some big-wigs. Love Depoe Bay. Used to go fishing (well, puking) when I was a wee one with family. Glad to see that pirates are thick as thieves there. Will be hoisting one to you at the Rogue Brewery when we come your way.

-- Hurricane

Well, Hell, let's make a party of it... we'll all still be here in October. And pinin' away for some piracy.

Here in Depoe Bay, we have plenty of Pirate businesses... Pirate Cove gift shop, Pirate Booty Pub, Pirate Coffee Company, and down the road a spell there's Captain Dan's Pirate Pastry Shop, Pirate Island, Pirate's Plunder. There was until recently a pub called the Black Pearl. Why? We have a bay called Pirate Cove on any map you'd care to look at. Then there's the Sea Hag restaurant, and my own shop: Things Rich and Strange. All good reasons to visit.

But wait! Each August we all get together and put on the Pirate Treasure Hunt, Saturday August 21st to be sure. Teams of four compete to win treasure chests stocked by the local merchants and every team's a winner, of course some win more than others. It's part game show stunts tasks, part murder mystery, with teams solving the clues and interacting with local pirate characters to see whodunnit.

In the evening there's the Pirate's Ball, where the mystery play is enacted and the murder is solved. And there's an auction. And there's Rum. And there's Barbecue Dinner by Ripe Tide BBQ, our favorite Boucaneer.

What's it cost? Just $100 for a team of four. Dinner is $15, and the bar is no host. It's all to benefit the Depoe Bay Food Bank, and Kids Holiday Toy program.

Hope you can make it. Treasure Depoe Bay

I am totally psyched about McShane. I've only ever seen him in one episode of Deadwood, but from what little I've seen, the man is bloody perfect for this role!

HEAR HEAR! I say!! McShane is just the man for the role, no one could be better. <<<rattles cutlas for emphasis>>>

the sword, not the car.

How about "party like it's 1699" ?

Very nicely done!

I will admit, I held off on this book a good while. I had vowed never to buy another Michael Crichton book after I read "state of Fear" which was ham handed, clumsy and bluntly political.

Well he's dead so what the hell... I thought it was a great read!

Movie? Sure! I'll be there with bells on, or swords on or somethin'.

Very Nice Work!

Aw, bilgewater! I'll be headed to th' Tucson Gem Show so I'll have to miss it.... An' it's only a couple of hours drive... An' I'm a Steamer, too. Top hat an' all!

Here's something I made a few months ago for your gandering pleasure. It's a two Reales coin from 1749, which I've set in a compass rose design 14K Gold pendant, which I designed to have fleur-de-lis elements.

I really enjoy this type of pendant, and I do a lot with Ancient Roman Coins, too.

This and more at my humble web store at ThingsRichandStrange.com

I do custom work, too, if I can tempt anyone:

Need something like this for your crew?

Cheers, Old Crow

Nothing I love more than finding modern expressions with Nautical origins.

I'm sure you are all familiar with:

Pooped

Dreadnought (not just a guitar)

Loose Cannon

Taken Aback

Three Sheets to the Wind

Let the Cat out of the Bag

Enough Room to Swing a Cat

I'm not remembering more right now, but am always noticing them. Anyone else?

Oh, No, it simply could not be as bad as The Pirate Movie (1982) Starring: Kristy McNichol, Christopher Atkins could it?

That is just awfully darn nice. As good as it looks in the first pictures, it really comes to life when it's held in the picture.

What's the Boucan connection, the story of the name? Is it to be used for carving up BBQ? Looks right handy.

Out here in Depoe Bay, we have Riptide Barbeque right next door to Pirate Coffee Company and I had to explain to Zeke, the owner, that he's a Boucaneer next door to a Pirate. Course up the road a few blocks is the Pirate Cove gift shop, Pirate's Booty Pub, and down the road the other way is Cap'n Dan's Pirate Pastry Shop and the new Black Pearl Pub. We're a little nutty here on the Oregon Coast, and it doesn't hurt that there's a bay here called Pirate Cove.

Anyway, very nice, and beautiful are the others on your website, too!

oh no.. it's the song that never ends... lol

one of my fav folk/shanty's would be

Barrett's Privateers...

O the year was 1778

How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now

A letter of marque came from the king

Yes, but how about THIS version...

Oh, the year was 1978,

HOW I WISH I'D NEVER TRIED IT NOW!

When a score of men were turned quite green,

By the scummiest ale you've ever seen.

CHORUS:

God damn them all!

I was told this beer was worth its weight in gold,

We'd feel no pain; shed no tears;

But it's a foolish man who shows no fear,

At a glass of Garnet's home made beer.

Oh, Garnet Rogers cried the town,

HOW I WISH I'D NEVER TRIED IT NOW!

For twenty brave men, all masochists,

Who would taste for him his home made brew.

CHORUS

This motley crew were a sickening sight,

HOW I WISH I'D NEVER TRIED IT NOW!

There was "Caveman Dave" with his eyes in bags,

He'd a hard-boiled liver and the staggers and jags.

CHORUS

We hadn't been there but an hour or two,

HOW I WISH I'D NEVER TRIED IT NOW!

When a voice said, "Gimme some home-made brew!"

And "Steeleye Stan" hove into view.

CHORUS

Now Steeleye Stan was a fighting man.

HOW I WISH I'D NEVER TRIED IT NOW!

He was eight foot tall and four foot wide,

Said, "Pass that jug or I'll tan yer hide!"

God damn them all!

I was told this beer was worth its weight in gold,

We'd feel no pain; shed no tears;

But it's a foolish man who shows no fear,

At a glass of Garnet's home made beer.

Stan took one sip and pitched on his side.

HOW I WISH I'D NEVER TRIED IT NOW!

Garnet was smashed with a gut-full of dregs,

And his breath set fire to both me legs.

CHORUS

So here I lie with me twenty-third beer.

HOW I WISH I'D NEVER TRIED IT NOW!

It's been ten years since I felt this way,

On the night before me wedding day.

God damn them all!

I was told this beer was worth its weight in gold,

We'd feel no pain; shed no tears;

But it's a foolish man who shows no fear,

At a glass of Garnet's home made beer.

by the great.... Ian Robb

Funny thing, I've got a friend named Dave, who's called Caveman too.

Put him in a pickle barrel till he's sober....

this should be followed by:

Put him in the rum barrel 'til he's pickled

Then again if yer in Seattle, there's a sea shanty sing the second friday, I believe, of the month at northwest seaport. Not that I ever make it myself.

We're going to get something started on the Oregon Coast this year, I swear it.