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Here's the link Hatch

The pictured pants although a good casual look for today; If I was going for a period look I know I can make a pair of simple slops or trousers/breeches for $15/18, more for wool or hemp. A weekend project to save a pile of cash is the way I'd go.

please feel free to use any images from the Searles10 folder on Photobucket you'd like -Callenish/Salty

Finally was able to upload our pictures to the web Callenish & Salty's pics

It might be 2 weeks early but it might also be a good time and place for "Naked Baby Cake-time" Wee Hamish will be 2 the first of the next month ....is there a good bakery available in Beaufort?

Another possible origin of the Jack reference; “…yet the spirit of Jacks of old is in you. It’s a lucky name—as the tales that your people still tell can vouch for.” (de Lint, 119) While it was surely in use beforehand, the nickname Jack was first recorded in the thirteenth century. By the 15th century, Jack had become a common name to signify every-man with other European forms being Juan, Jean, or Hans. Appearing in nursery rhymes such as “Jack Sprat” as early as 1639 and a character in oral traditions even longer, Jack is lucky, both a trickster and an unlikely hero, sometimes clever, often naïve, but always successful. The most famous Jack tales are “Jack and the Beanstalk” but his greatest fame is as a slayer of giants (Cavendish, 1381). When the Jack Tale cycle migrated from Europe to North America, Jack became an “Americanized farmboy-hero Jack.” (Guiterrez, 85) The first record of Jack in the United States appears before 1800 in Virginia where these tales were “handed down from generation to generation from time immemorial” (Kercheval 1902, 285-86 as quoted by Lindahl (McCarthy 1994, xvii)) “But that was always the way with Jacks, wasn’t it? They were clever and fools all at once.” (de Lint, 169)

We really want to come back again this year ....We had so much fun there the last time!!!

Happy Birthday lass ...even if it's a day late ;)

Happy Birthday lass!!! Hope you have a grand time of it !!! ;)

Salty and I arrived home safe and sound around 4 AM We had to make a couple of pit stops ...Jeff and Melissa and every one with Searle's That made the event so much fun thank you so much. We had a great time ....still can't figure out where that bottle of Port went??? ;)

No we'll let Hamish have the sippy I'll go back to the bottle .....nothing better than a nipple between my old lips :P

my glass is always broken on the floor and milk everywhere and me with no slippers on

Huzzah! Huzzah!! Huzzah!!! ;)

You get less .....he rest of us get to sleep in

Fuzzy Bunny ;)

Matt, the brass on those hilts dulls and ages fairly quickly to a soft golden luster. The use of a Scotch-brite pad on the brass speeds up the dulling process Foxe, I have inquiries out to 2 of the museums that I visited in 2001 in Dordrecht, NL; one, the Huis van Gijn only had a small collection of Arms in a marshal display on the stairway but I don't recall if that was the place where I did the sketches. My lady friend told me that one of the museums has burned in 2005-6 I also toured the Legermuseum in Delft and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam which also had large arms collections and several other small museums. I'm trying to retrace my tours to get all the info I can to track down that sort of cutlass. I also contacted Blair @ Loyalist Arms who carries the sword I posted; he told me that the documentation he has for it was verbal from textual descriptions and he gave me additional leads about the swords. I will continue to research into this type blade.

It works the other way Diosa you have to be hot blooded to withstand the cold ...We generate heat ...at least most of us do(Kate)

I did some sketches and took notes in the museum because they didn't allow photographs while I spent several months in the city in 2002...I don't recall the exact name of the museum, it was a seafarers museum, but I can try to find it from my friend who lives a few blocks away from it. I'll see what I can research

That was what the museum in Dordrecht Netherlands had displayed ...They gave dates from circa1660-1690

I'll make sure to bring my gimp tag with us

The cupped hilt is Dutch from the mid 1600's it is what was the basis for the American 1860 naval cutlass.

I might recommend a period blade of a very basic style ...First off stay away from anything made from stainless steel or with skull and cross bones all over it (Advertising like that would have gotten you hung) All of these are period and with high carbon steel blades and less than $100

Wee Hamish and I may come down for this event; since we'll be on our own for that week since Salty has to have another round of radiation treatment and we can't be within "a mile" of her while she glows in the dark

these look quite nice from what i can see on the small laptop screen I'm thinking about the Atlantic Island charts and the early Florida/ Caribbean Island charts to begin with

I saw what you posted on FB and I'd suggest you post pics when you've finished and worn with a chemise and petticoat ...but that's just me