callenish gunner

Sounds like a bargain ....would sleep 3-4 and a fair price as well

We are making the last of the accoutrement's to go with our encampment (lantern hooks and table tops and a bit of garb) organizing our kitchen kit and packing baskets...stocking up on candles, etc. ... making lists upon lists!!! to make sure we don't forget to purchase anything yet that might need to be purchased, parceling out herbs and spices and repacking foodstuffs into period looking containers ...the little details are always the most frustrating; lest we forget one of those things that make the trip a bit more comfortable

the Callenish crew has gotten theirs !!!!

With going through about 20-25 gallons a week just going back and forth to two different universities 35 miles apart it is great to see gas here in PA down to just a few cents over $2 as opposed to the over $4 dollars at the end of August ...and with looking forward to driving the 1500 miles to PIP in a few weeks it doesn't seem so daunting any more ....quick calculations should be about $250 each way as opposed to the $500 we were budgeting For my everyday commute it has also changed with wee Hamish; can't haul him around on the back of my motor-scooter (mmmm I'm seeing a side-car in my near future!!)

The post office said by parcel they might take as much 4-5 days instead of going priority which would have cost me an extra $5 with the wooden box ....there would be no way to track them for that rate of post ...I bloody well pray they haven't gotten lost!!!

they were sent via the US POST parcel post

Greg, Sorry to hear about your mishap, hope all will be better soon ...we're glad you're going to be there .....safe journey to y' lad ...see you then

Patrick, sorry the boss can't make it this year but you have one hell of a boss who'd trade in her bonus miles to allow you to make the trip.... so glad you're going to be there!!! i'll make sure the coffee is on first thing in the AM

I don't have a book currently ...i'll keep you apprised

I too would be willing to do this again ...it was fun before!!!

with a quill on parchment......and sealing wax

I'll write you a doctor's note ....or perhaps Mission should write it ;beings as he is our Surgeon

what? are you bringing extra clothes? figured i'd go in full kit down and until we're home

And here I thought it was the devilish twinkle in m' eye and the way I handle cat of nine tails

It may seem like a distant memory but I too was a redhead. A deep auburn red with coppery red in my beard and mustach ....but alas those are just fond memories now; it went white by the time I was forty ....what didn't fall out ;)

william that silver hilt is friggin gorgeous .....a bit impractical but fit for a king

sounds like something m'self and a friend used to do with small balloons filled with black powder for really BIG fireworks!!! we didn't include the halved balls though( for obvious reasons) We just would use about a thick paste of paper mache made from tiny confetti sized shredded office paper and wheat paste applied about an inch thick allover the balloons allow to dry for several days until we were quite sure the paper was totally dry. We would paint them black with a red band around them. When we were ready to make one hell of a few BANGS we would then make a hole with an icepick and insert 3 inches of fuse ...light them and toss them as far as we could out into a field and wait for the sound and fury.....BOOM!!!!!!!

We here issued two different claymore swords when I was in service; one was a dress claymore with a fairly narrow blade more for show than combat. That one was seldom actually sharpened but it also had to be highly polished at all times. The second was a broad bladed hearty blade that we were to keep sharp and well oiled and the brass basket was to be clean and polished at all times. That sword has a 28 inch blade, about 2.25 inches wide, with a brass basket hilt with the traditional red flannel linings. We were told by the old Sargent-major that those blades were all they had left on the beaches at St. Valerie, France during the Second World War when they were left there to defend the retreat of the rest of the British forces. They had been left to die or be captured with virtually no ammunition and supplies surrounded by the Nazi's. Their orders were to make a good show of it....Thousands of Scottish highlanders were captured and spent the rest of the war in prison camps. They swore they'd rather have died with their swords in hand than go down like that ever again....so we were taught and trained to use them as if our lives depended on them because they might. We were given the choice to purchase and keep those swords upon discharge or to return them to the armory...most chose to keep theirs ...that is the most prized sword in my entire collection and I still take it out from time to time to drill with it.

lady seahawk and others, i mailed off the two books i had one was matusalum"s and the second was pew's sorry for the delay!

Been working with classes at university and had to do a watercolour self portrait so I figured i'd include it in the sketchbook(a print) ....i'll be including a lot of my other drawings and such as i go along

Figured we might as well post our most recent pic at the local coffeehouse Friday eve

this is the company i have had dealings with most recently they make an excellent product and are a bit more reasonable Red Hawk Traders

head scarves/kerchiefs were common during period they were often worn under the tricorn or by themselves they weren't called bandanna during that period that is a Hispanic/Portugese word that came into the lexicon during the cowboy era: NOUN: A large handkerchief usually figured and brightly colored. ETYMOLOGY: Probably Portuguese, from Hindi bndhn, tie-dyeing, from bndhn, to tie, from Sanskrit bandhati, he ties; see bhendh- in Indo-European roots

I will be representing our small family crew ...since Hamish is too disruptive an influence on the events needed to be covered! You can contact me either @814-221-5327 or 5326 ....we'll try to remember to keep the bloody things turned on

we should be arriving sometime early thursday since there is only one driver in our car (ME) and we'll have to be making pit stops for Hamish