Iron Jon

Congratulations Silkie !!!

Have a doctor look you in the eyes and tell you that inside your right lung is a malignant tumor the size of a baseball.

You got to love those doctors... Mine told me I needed to schedule an emergency surgery to have my entire insides redistributed...

I heard pretty much the same thing from my doctor years ago when my wife was 7 months pregnant. I was at work and started bleeding so I drove myself to the emergency room right away. They did a bunch of scans and tests, consulted with an urologist, and diagnosed me with bladder cancer... I was 33 and the Doc said I was the youngest case he'd ever seen, lucky me! They also wanted to schedule emergency surgery right away... I had to talk them into letting me return my work car and go home and talk to my wife first before they started. I ended up having several operations to remove the tumors but this October I'll be 14 years cancer free!

I haven't been on in a while and it looks as if a lot of new plans are in the works. I want to play along as much as possible next year although I'm still new to all this, last PiP bring my first event. (...and I'm still not much of a talker with or without an accent!)

Like I wrote a few months ago, I have some 'more or less' period woodworking tool that I was planning on bringing next time to PiP. I also have a bow lathe and a shave horse that I wanted to set up near my campsite and turn out a few item as needed.

I guess I could fit in the central camp area or maybe set up around the forge near the fort. I've never done any living history type demonstrations like this before but I'm willing to learn as I go along.

I did get a chance to talk to many of the lost visitors to last years camp and answer questions about why we were there. Being in the last campsite on the corner kind of made us the unofficial information booth for the careening camp.

"hollywood is where i be callin home. only problem is how i may get to key west for that pirate meet-ing and greet-ing thing-y"

Well, seeing as we live right up the street from you in Hollywood I'm sure we can help you get to Key West and join in on all the fun when the time comes...

It was about 85 and sunny today. I think it missed the record by 1 degree...

I'm now known as Doofus Monkeyshorts !

Paula and I will also be there next year but with a bigger tent and some of my woodworking stuff to set up. I have a bow lathe and a shave horse I can bring and maybe turn out a few belaying pins and such if there's an interest in it.

Also concerning the rentals in Key West. I rented a 2/2 in Truman Annex (the last house on Southard) during August and September and the price wasn't too bad. You get a little better deal when you rent for a longer term but it still came out to about $115 a day.

I just finally had my son move the cooler and washed cooking gear from the front door out to the garage. I unloaded and cleaned them up the day I got home and left it all sitting there for the next 10 days.

I have some surplus M18 yellow smoke grenades that I use for training. I was going to bring them along this year but forgot them at the office. I'll donate them to whoever ends up being the pyro man.

...then Iron Jon's lovely lady(Mercury)...need a name here Iron Jon...

My lady's name would be Paula (next to Haunting Lilly), she doesn't post here but lurks occasionally. She would like everyone to know that she enjoyed herself at PiP and can't wait for another event. Next time we even promise to leave our campsite and mingle a little more!

I should be back on in a bit. Thanks again Syren for the gun and I'll be joining yer crew as soon as I can figure it out. Now I just need to find me some pants...

Looks like a good way to spend some time. I made up my account last night while at work, #99679 Iron Jon. Unfortunately work got in the way of play and I didn't even get to finish reading the instructions.

An excellent slideshow! (Although that last picture of Billy is kinda creepy.)

It was a pleasure to meet the Captain and most of the crew at PiP this year. I hope to make it to the Blackbeard festival this summer and see the rest of the action.

Well Done! Truly, I can't wait to see more!

I agree ! It looks like all that time you spent behind the camera will be appreciated by everyone who sees the final result.

Sweet Jane (The Velvet Underground song)

  The dubloons Mary had would have been great to give to  the visiting children.

  We had an entire chest of them just for that purpose... unfortunately we seemed to have very few kids passing through the camps.... already spoke to Fayma about correcting that for next year....

We brought about 50 gold and silver pieces of 8 and handed out about half of them at the camp and the fort to the kids dressed as pirates.

I think that being the corner campsite made us the unofficial 'Info Booth' for the careening camp. We had to answer quite a few questions from people who didn't even know why we were there. Most just asked if they could walk through the site and take pictures, but several sat and talked for a while...

Here are some that I still have left. Unfortunately I lost the pics from the first 2 days along with about 500 pictures that I had saved when my 2 gig card got corrupted and erased everything.

Pirates In Paradise 2007 pics

I got my $5 Walmart DVD copy here in my desk at work. There's nothing going on at all tonight; I think I'll throw it in the computer and have another look.

A little yippie dance is always fun !

That's right ! I knew it was easy but the post got lost down somewhere at the bottom of the page.

Sgt. Pepper's

For anyone still playing, here's a bump and a hint...

The 1969 movie was adapted from a 1967 folk song/story that is now traditionally played on the classic rock radio stations on Thanksgiving day.

Abrams, what did you think of Hesse's Siddhartha? I started reading it once years ago but never did finish it. I'm reading Old Path White Clouds by Thich Nhat Hanh right now. Pretty much the same story (can't change history much) but I'm enjoying this book quite a bit more.

Plankton

We'll be bringing a 12 qt dutch oven with tripod and a large skillet. We plan on making a pork roast one night, I'm not sure how many it'll feed but there should be plenty to go around. We don't have much extra in the way of plates and bowls but I'll look around the thrift stores in the next few days and add what I can to our camp box.

If needed I could also get a bunch of blue enamelware stuff and a big stainless steel coffee pot (only if I get a chance to pick it up from my ex.)