blackjohn

Ahoy! It is with great pleasure that I can announce the following event... the Pirate Brethren has been invited to attend the Saint Mary's City Maritime Heritage Festival on Saturday, June 16, 2007. Here's the link to SMC's event calendar: http://www.stmaryscity.org/events.html To quote... Maritime Heritage Festival Sail, row, hike, or drive on down for a celebration of all things nautical on the edge of the beautiful St. Mary's River. 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Here's a link to the 2005 Maritime Heritage Festival. The pics do a good job of showing how nice the site is. http://www.littlereview.com/photos/stmarys1.htm Yrs&c, John

^ naaaa... it's only money. < not that I'm wealthy in a monetary sense, but I'm more than happy to blow some money on fun! V keep an eye on your dough or spend it freely?

^ Yes, I like to get back to nature. There is something true about the soil, about living growing things rooted in it. < has actually hugged a tree, tree-hugger fashion! V why are you on this forum?

^ Awesome!!! Purchased two hat blanks, a "fake" grenado, misc fabric for the mrs, monmouth cap for son#2, wooden clogs for son#1, dirty billy hat for the mrs, etc. And... was given four hats by an old reenacting buddy of mine!!! And... put together the furniture that is the beginning of our tavern And... helped the mrs construct her new stays AND... landed the BIG event!!! Saint Mary's City, here we come! < has too many pots to stir V Favorite hat?

Yeah, I've been studying up on tents and stuff... I posted this over on the PB forum during lunch... one of the cooler more useful things that has been written. "We went from hence to the Isles Roca's, to careen the Sugar-prize, which the Isle of Aves was not a place so convenient for. Accordingly we haled close to one of the small Islands, and got our Guns ashore the first thing we did, and built a Breast-work on the Point, and planted all our Guns there, to hinder an Enemy from coming to us while we lay on the Careen: Then we made a House, and cover'd it with our Sails, to put our Goods and Provisions in." We have an event coming up where we'll have a redoubt to use. I figure that event has careening camp written all over it.

^ maybe the only thing that matters is making the wise choice at the appropirate time? (ha! nice typo johnnyboy-o!) < has lots of questions and no answers V do you prefer questions, or answers?

^ "I don't care about pollution, I'm an air-conditioned gyspy..." Oops, sorry, just felt like quoting The Who. I can go either way. It'd be nice if we humans kept the planet clean. But the planet will off us sooner or later if we don't, so in a geological sense does it even matter? < Think outside of the box? There is no box! V What's more important, getting it done on time, or getting it done the right way?

Phil! Happiest of birthdays to you sir, though I know, as a taoist, those things mean naught to you!

he looks like he's chattering because of the cold. suffice to say none of my tikis are particularly happy right now...

Dutch captain with striped drawers.

Agh! And this!!! 3C P1, Russian television! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc3D0Wb_jvg

Dude! Great show that one! Loved it! For obtuse comedy, I always loved SCTV! Take off you hoser! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZyCVpM43MU And my favorite, Monster Chiller Horror Theatre! "Would you like some more... pancakes?!?!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qyLVcJEMBQ

sshhhhhhh... don't tell anyone, but when I was but a wee nipper, Lassie always made be cry. Actually, I think it was more the theme music than the show itself. Weird flashback memories. I don't know, I guess I saw something tragically poignant in the whole thing. aaaahhhh... another favorite! Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom!!! And yes, they do: http://www.wildkingdom.com/nostalgia/

I like Mission's/Carracioli's list. I love old (1960s) tv... Hogan's Heroes and that kind of thing. Actually, my wife and I got stupidly hooked on... get this... watching reruns of Matchgame, with Gene Rayburn, and usually Richard Dawson and/or Nispy Russell, Betty White, Fannie Flag, Charles Nelson Riley... you get the picture. Classic 70s tv... it's funny to hear them talk about streakers and stuff like that. It's like some very, very, twisted history lesson. Current shows. I don't watch much tv these days. Stuff I really like that I have seen, stuff that I think has exceptional writing and/or stories - Firefly, which we have mentioned. The new Battlestar Galactica which kicks some serious but if you like military SF, or even SF. Hell, Lisa likes it, and she's not much of one for military stuff. My current favorite, and this is only based on the first season (and Jim Hawk(in)s tells me season 2 is even better) is LOST! That show is way cool. If I was going to write tv, it would probably be like that!

Cool news WRW! Glad to hear you've made it to week two. You've probably gotten over that first hump. Congrats! Pics...? You know, sometimes I wonder if instead of being just a normal person I'm actually a photojournalist... more often that not I'm slogging a camera around with me, because I do love to tka epics. But this time, I made the decision to leave the camera home and just be me... reenactor/dad/husband. And I had alot of fun. I did see some stuff that might have been photo worthy. And I did take the wife and kids to Gettysburg afterwards to Dirty Billy's hat shop. He was there, but he didn't have the hat she wanted so... we dorve the extra 30 minutes to his shop where I bought her a nice $100 hat. It's funny, because whenever we go to an event, she always gets better swag than I do. Me? I picked up two hat blanks and a cast iron sphere to be used as a replica grenado. She got the hat, and a bunch of material, and some misc other stuff. The kids got some neat stuff too - son#2 got the greatest monmouth cap! and son#1 a pair of wooden clogs (as we with kids know, finding shoes for 'em is nigh unto impossible). Then yesterday, after excercising and putting together the furniture for the tavern, I helped her make her new stays. But that's another story... This morning, I did my time. While watching Lost. Great show. And now I must away. Tons to do, so little time!

cat? the girl's a regular tigger if you ask me!

don't know why, but my arms feel ultra-pumped today... popeye arms... maybe it's from carrying all that stuff purchased yesterday...

http://www.bighorntradeco.com/Historic%20W...r%20Market.html Guns? I hope! Could use a couple more hats... and some shoes...

did half of mine now, the other half will be done walking through this! Historic Winter Market Lynfield Event Center 10142 Hansonville Rd. Frederick, MD 21702 March 3-4, 2007 10:00-5:00 Sat. 10:00-4:00 Sun We are moving! The winter show is no longer going to be held in Elverson, Pa. We will be moving to the Lynfield Event Center. It is located just off Rt. 15, Eight miles North of Frederick, Md. Admission $5.00 We are expanding to include more traders. There is room for 100 tables of quality merchandise. Elvelv2elv3elv4 Don't Miss This Show! Top Quality Craftspersons from all over the East. Leather, Beads, Muzzle Loading Rifles, Knives, Tomahawks, Leather Clothing, Native American Crafts, Pottery, Books, Re-enactors, Antiques, Leather Bags, Capotes, Colonial Clothing, Custom Reproductions This is the source for the quality re-enactment merchandise. Vendor List Knives and Tomahawks Woodcrafts Custom Woodwork Fairy Tails Drums Hats Buckskinning Supplies Wagons/wheelbarrows Dave the Roadman On the Road Leather Clothes...

That's cool. When I was doing my stint with Marine Sanctuaries, I asked marine archaeologist Bruce what his take on it was. He was pretty sure it was the QAR. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that neat things might come from this...

I can try figuring out what I may have posted... must've been something on the old comcast account??? Assuming they were not pics of a Whydah holster, they might have been something I put in this article.

Based upon what evidence?

^ Have a "favorite scenes" film festival! Eat some bbq! Or if not that, some sort of meat... make some red beans and rice or dirty rice to go with it... flip through some books with cool pics of historical stuff... drink a Moretti La Rossa or a Guinness or some rum... find a way to eat some super dark chocolate during all of that... < phew... just carried a 100 lb box of furniture fixin's downstair! Where's me hammer! Where's me turnscrew! V It's the weekend! Got plans?

This will fall under the category of non-pirate. I find this to be amazing... "And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thoughts for the wonder of later years, and tell of happenings that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills." And this... "And so it was it became a magical sword. And little magic there is in English woods, from the time of anemones to the falling of leaves, that was not in the sword. And little magic there is in southern downs, that only sheep roam over and quiet shepherds, that the sword had not too. And there was scent of thyme in it and sight of lilac, and the chorus of birds that sings before dawn in April, and the deep proud splendour of rhododendrons, and the litheness and laughter of streams, and miles and miles of may. And by the time the sword was black it was all enchanted with magic. "Nobody can tell you about that sword all that there is to be told of it; for those that know of those paths of Space on which its metals once floated, till Earth caught them one by one as she sailed past on her orbit, have little time to waste on such things as magic, and so cannot tell you how the sword was made, and those who know whence poetry is, and the need that man has for song, or know any one of the fifty branches of magic, have little time to waste on such things as science, and so cannot tell you whence its ingredients came. Enough that it was once beyond our Earth and was now here amongst our mundane stones; that it was once but as those stones, and now had something in it such as soft music has; let those that can define it." Lord Dunsany

^ which type? In a word, yes. For instance, I KNEW exactly what flying would feel like, well before I ever flew. How? I don't know. Can any of these be explained scientifically? Maybe. Probably. Does it means science has the correct answer? I dunno. Just as interesting is... < Likes science... but in a way similar to religion, I find that scientists tend to cling to dogma. V Science or mysticism or a blend?