Red-Handed Jill

Here's a pic of most of my arsenal, but I admit several of my knives are missing from it.

Okay - since it's about six weeks off let's start planning. TO WHOEVER IS INTERESTED: This year we'll be holding the First Annual Tales of the Seven Seas Fabric Swap. Have you got fabric that you've purchased but just haven't had the time to do anything with? Or leftover fabric from that project that was going to be a coat but ended up being a vest? Or some lovely fabric that someone gave you that is quite frankly not your colour? Bring 'em down to Ojai and swap fabrics with fellow pirates in the TO7S camp! And if you have patterns and notions that you haven't used (and you don't need) bring those as well.

Here's to another successful trip around the sun (an eventful one) and many more!

Oh yeah - I LOVE this wee film!

Yep - I also have the Ocean Sailor's Attitude, but I've done ocean sailing before. Not sure I could do that for more than a few weeks, though.

Yes - bring on the mai tais! (Should we have those at Ojai?...) Happy birthday!!

I went out for dinner, but there's a mocha cheesecake cooling in the kitchen and I just finished wrapping the last of my homemade salted caramels (these things are ADDICTIVE.)

In which case, why would someone want you to work on their boat if you're a "real" pirate and would take the boat?...

Bugger - too far away for me!

It irks me when someone only listens to half of what I've said or somehow mixes it up in their head - and even worse, conveys what "I" said to someone else, completely getting it wrong.

Yep - it was an oversight from the end of the Prohibition era. Jimmy Carter signed a bill that allowed a certain amount of home brewing to be done without taxation (can't remember the amount, though...)

Yeah - I noticed that too. I miss seeing where people are located.

Those of you in the US can thank the esteemed ex-president Jimmy Carter, who made home brewing legal again. Started a whole new renaissance of microbrewing!

Upper right, within the forum - but not within the topic - under the Start New Topic button. (Mark this forum as read.)

You can - look at the lower left of the screen. At the very bottom in the wee grey lettering: "Mark board as read".

Rumba - I may have a source, but I won't know until around mid-August.

No - the carved table is one of my wee camp tables, about half the size of that one. I made the one large map table (the one in the photos) plus two other smaller tables, one not quite 3 x 3 and one about 3 x 4. This is the carved table (the 3 x 3) after a poker game. The "tea" was actually rum. Michael - your table and benches are terrific! What a great idea!

Thanks! If memory serves, I used red mahogany stain. I put two coats on and wiped them very quickly afterward - made for a nice depth of colour. And the table is not as shiny as it looks in that picture. I debated on whether or not to use a sealer but wanted it to hold up to a lot of spilled rum and ale. I painted the apron and legs black, which really offset the stain on the planks nicely. It might not be absolutely period, but I was looking to make something that looked somewhat like it was cobbled together out of spare parts.

Silkie - why not make plank tables? I used pine for mine - it's about 5 x 3 and I can lift it fairly easily, so making it a bit larger shouldn't be that much of a hardship as far as weight. And it gets all sorts of use in camp and has held up well. I bought four federal-style legs on eBay and corner brackets and hanger bolts from Rockler. The legs detach so the tabletops can be stacked for transport. Here's a pic of the underneath of the table before I attached the corner brackets: Here's a pic after I hastily put the legs on (hence the crooked leg in the front.)

There is one. Look at the very bottom of the page, to the left, below everything else. It's in small, grey lettering: "Mark Board as Read".

Mission's gonna miss that skull icon...

Glad to hear that he's on the road to recovery. I'll send good thoughts yours and his way.

Had a pretty good fourth (combo of 4th of July and Canada Day) - we sailed upon the Bay of St. Francis, made our way back to port and had a BBQ. Then we sat back and enjoyed some fireworks on the bay.

A local woman owns a herd of goats that she hires out to "mow" overgrown areas that are hard to get to. It's always struck me as a very elegant and environmentally-prudent solution. This has fascinated me but I've never had the opportunity to see these goats in action. But on my drive home yesterday, I passed an overgrown area of land where the goat herd was hard at work, enthusiastically doing what they do best.

*cough cough* (waves hand) A wee bit too much testosterone around here. Better mop that up... To interject a bit of estrogen as an antidote: Summer rain - the kind you can run around naked in (c'mon - you've done this...)