Patrick Hand

Well it WAS for scientific research..........

Fancy... I'm fun to play all kinds of games with... (Bad Patrick...Bad... ) Sorry...... One time, I got typewritter (easy)... but the team I was on didn't let me finish the drawing.... rats... they guessed it to quickly...... Famine was kinda tricky..... drew a bunch of potbellied starving kids with empty plates, and farms from the "dust bowl" in the background..... the group got that one also..... Like I typed..... they wont let me play anymore.......

There is a page in "A diray of an American Boy" ( it might be an Early American boy... I don't have the book with me right now ) by Eric Slone that shows how the barrel hoops were made....

Yah... natural unbleached hemp, is about $16.00 per yard... (ofcourse, it is 52" wide...) Our group is going to a pyrate dinner tomarrow, and I think I will wear the Buccaneer stuff... Not exactly what anyone thinks of as a pyrate, but I figure it should be interesting explaining the difference..... I have the "first" version almost finished.... If I get any pictures, I will post them.... Now I can start to replace everything (well most everything) with authentic stuff.... (still have to order the linen,,,) I think I even figured a way to earn the extra $600 for a Paddlebutt musket.... (it will cut into about 75 hours of my free time, but I figure it would be worth it.......)

They wont let me play Pictionary anymore..... I think it has something to do with being a cartoonist.... I can draw realy fast and well.....

Weeeeeelllllll...... actully the first recordings didn't come out that good..... so we had to scrap them..... But the next ones should be of much better quality......

NOTE: but the "grotto" is now wired for sound....... just thought you might want to know.........

Just did a search on airlines....$232 for a round trip..... that's not to bad.... but looking for a place to stay..... $48.00.... but seven miles away...... is there camping closer......

This is going to "stir up some ....stuff" I use to do a clown for childrens partys... to be a good clown takes a lot of work to do it right.... it's not just make-up, and funny cloths, there are many skill involved..... I can juggle knives..... but I don't want to "horn in" on Ace's bit....... Now when the group that I'm a pyrate with are in a parade I have a bit of "schtick" that I do.... I find a group of kids, and ask if any of them wants to join our crew.... we need a new powder monkey.... then I ask them if they are quick.... and if any of them knows what a powder monkey is.... I then explain that durring a sea battle a powder monkey runs down to the powder magazine, gets a big bag of gunpowder, and brings it to the cannons.... so they have to be able to run realy fast...... because our last powder monkey wasnt that fast.... and a cannonball took his head "clean off"...... at that point most of them no longer like the idea of joining a pyrate crew.... and it is time to move along.... Now the part that I'm thinking about..... my "schtick" is a bit of clowning... (OK.... the punch line is a bit "gross" but it is still "the blow off"..... just for a different "character.......) So when we are in a parade, we are a variation of "character clowns"....... On one hand.... this is fun.... on the other hand.... it's not very piratacal......

OH YAH.... I wrote a basic Program that creates pyrate characters for a game that I was writing...... (using an unregistered version of Liberty Basic.... gotta send them thier $39.00 one of these days....) The Pyrate game, (what I have blocked out) is very simple, and fast.... I've set-up an "Aftermath" game.... (a character with a shotgun, turns and fires down a hallway.... half an hour later, I got very acurate results..... but that wasn't worth the effort.....) I'm using the "handfull of D6" for results .... makes it more fun to play, and everyone has D6...... Basicly..... playability over reality..... quick results, and fast play......

I've spent more time writing a Traveler computer program (ok ... in BASIC) than I've played .... Now I only have part of it.... lost most of it when my last pewter died..... dang .... it was a cool program..... generated the main star ( and secondary if present) and all the planets and thier satalites in a system..... I was then going to fix it so with "cut and Paste" it would write a web page of the system... so I could do "stellar cartography" in HTML format...... jump links and all......

I started working on the hunting frock (found some brown wool in the fabric box) but the #*%%&&^%*(#*@ machine (can't call it a sewing machine right now..... that's what it WASN'T doing) Anyway... after throwing and sticking a pair of siscors in the table, I figured I'd just have a rum, and forget about it for tonight...... I'm pleased with how the Pre-authentic stuff is coming out... now I can order the proper fabric, and hand sew everything.... but still have something to "play" with, and I now know exactly how I want the good stuff to turn out (already made the small mistakes on cheap cloth) I think the hunting frock will definately add to the "Buccaneer look" of everything... I've been surfing a lot of "trecker" and "longhunter" pages, looking at how they do things, and I think a heavy linen hunting frock is the way to go.... I also e-mailed a group that do early period trecking and rendezvouse here in California..... "Hey it said pre 1840s..... a 1680s Buccaneer IS pre 1840s.....(they do from 1600 to 1840.... but most of them are 1750ish) I realy don't think I'd peeve the Buckskinners at rendezvouse for being to early....( they were a cool bunch) and I wanna fire the fusil (when I get it......) so rendezvouse would be a good place to do so..... and the closest to period.......

And whatever happened to the Skipper doll.... you twisted her arm around once, and she grew breast..... I wanted to get one of those and see what happened it you twisted her arm two or three more times.... (hey the thing came out when I was going throug puberty..... inquisitive guy mind and all......)

Why not try to orginize a small oriental fair localy ? Find the local S.C.A. group, see if they wanna play, get some of the Martial Arts schools to put on demos, and check around at some restaurants see it they might be interested. Start your own..... (it would be a lot of work, but that is how things like Renn. Faires get started......

The little brown ones be "Smart Pills" (eat one and you will find out why, and then get smarter...... you won't be doing "that" again) The large ones in different colors are ok to eat...... and the ones whraped in foil ... those be chocolate..... Baked Bunnie in Rum sauce...... now that be good eating....

I like the neck scarves (bandanna....) that two of them are wearing. Keeps drafts off your neck sence the coats don' have collers....

https://pyracy.com/gallery/details.php?...629&mode=search OK... so I didn't get around to posting the photo untill Sunday.... The .50 cal. Mountain rifle isn't period, but I used it as a prop anyway.... I finished the shooting pouch this morning, still carving the powder horn. Figure I will re-make the breeches in wool, (I kinda like how the blue turns out....), and the shirt in naturel linen. I also want to make a hunting frock out of linen canvas, then dye it brown.

Remember that part in MASH.....with Hotlips and Frank Burns .... and a microphone.......... a microphone just like the one that somehow got hidden in a certain grotto......

This is from an article by Mark Baker in may/june 1987 issue of Muzzeloader... "...A chunk of Castile soap. ... Frenchmen, Indains and white hunters alike favored the Castile soap above their homemade lard soaps. They were willing to pay dearly for that little bit of luxury. Castile soap was made from olive oil in Spain and traded worldwide as early as 700 A.D. Beginning in the early 1800s, Castile soap was made from coconut oil. It is possible to buy both kinds of Castile soap today."

Lust is good......... Remember... it's ok to laugh during sex...... just don't point !

I was thinking about making an addition to my web page with "The Buccaneer Project".... Finished the leather gaiters..... dang my fingers are sore...... will post a picture maybe tomarrow or Saturday afternoon..... still have to make the hunting pouch.... Dang and Drat..... I went looking online for blackpowder fowler barrels..... WHY is a .50 cal. rifled barrel less money than a smoothbore ? (Almost half price... ) Also was looking for period copper kettle..... you know there are a LOT of restaurants named "The Copper Kettle" (I think one of the "Trecker" pages had one.... will have to go through ALL those bookmarked pages again.....

I want to make leather "gaiters" (leg covers) first.... (Should be working on them right now....) ... Then I will start on a shooting pouch... and do more work on the powder horn..... I've been looking at a bunch of English Civil War pages... found a Suttler that sells period "drawers"(they are simple enough to make....) .... and thier "snapsacks" have me re-thinking the design I was going to use for a haversack....... I'm also filing (don't have a grinder... so I have to do it by hand.) a knife blade.... well the tang of it, so I can re-haft it.... Will look around at Garage sales for a better French Chefs type of knife (one with a forged in bolster) then I will file the blade slightly thinner , for a period knife. Most of the stuff, I will make... but a period gun is going to take awhile.....

I was just going to skip the link..... untill I got to the "slutty".... and then just had to check them out......

For Pyratical vocabulary........ (just ignore the tripod.com pop-ups......)

DRAT..... well it could have been a lot worse.... They could have gone into the shed over there where we've been storring our Roman Candals..... By the way.... did anyone notice where Christine went with that handfull of aromatheropy candals ?