^, <, V

[Ransom]

^ 113-115 degree heat, and dragging a hose around to keep everything watered.

^ A Margarita on the rocks.

< My other half hates the heat a lot, which is why we escape to the boat so often - much cooler weather on the coast.

V How do you escape the heat?

[Capt. Sterling]

^ pool, just did my first laps for the season

< Mr. Merriweather the younger and I have an accord to swim laps every day, rain or shine...

V swim or would you rather just sit by and sun?

[Red-Handed Jill]

^ Swim, definitely!

< I miss having regular access to swimable water.

V Pool, lake or ocean?

[Morgan Dreadlocke]

/\ Ahh the ocean. There be a time when it was not illegal ta camp out on the beach. The roar of the surf at midnight will be hauntin' ya decades after ya first hears it.

< Bring on the heat Makes old abused joints feel better

\/ Can ye work in the heat? Or just ly around like a corpse?

[Hester]

^ Work? Oh no, dear, I just drape myself decoratively over a deck chair.

< Slept with the windows open last night. Gentle breezes, and the city wasn't too noisy for once.

V Have you turned on your air-conditioning yet this year?

[Jacky Tar]

^ Not yet! It's been fairly cool lately.

< I knew Hester was a lady o' leisure. (Mr. H keeps her t' decorate deck chairs.)

V Would ye like t' be kept or are ye too much of a pirate?

[Ransom]

^ That would depend on who's doing the keeping and in what condition I'd be kept.

< Air conditioning? There's air conditioning? I thought that was just open the windows and turn on the fan. Who knew?

V What's your favorite summer activity to do by yourself - other than walk on the beach/lake shore?

[Hester]

^ Drink Pimm's and read Pirate Porn ... yo-ho, yo-ho!

Jacky Tar wrote:

I knew Hester was a lady o' leisure. (Mr. H keeps her t' decorate deck chairs.)

< It's reciprocal, Jacky. I keep Mr. H. around because he's awfully decorative too.

V Slacker, or an exemplar of the Protestant Work Ethic?

[Cheeky Actress]

^ As of late, I've been a Slacker at work. It's been difficult to become motivated with the Boss Lady gone and the weather being so DAMN NICE out.

Answering Ransom's question. I weekend at Six Flags (spent one Saturday on 8 coasters! - That's a record for me!)

< I feel a summer cold coming on. The only cure for something like this is a six pack and laying out in the sun!

V Time or money?

[Hester]

^ Time! What's the point of money if you don't have the leisure to enjoy it?

Cheeky Actress wrote:

I feel a summer cold coming on. The only cure for something like this is a six pack and laying out in the sun!

<Thank you Dr. Lilly! My sore throat is turning into a cold, so I shall fill your prescription tomorrow! (Although my 6-pack of Corona already has one missing!) All those limes will provide much-needed Vitamin C as well.

V Sun or shade?

[Cheeky Actress]

You're most welcome Hester. Sorry to hear that you are under the weather, and I do hope that you get a good dose of Vitamin D as well tomorrow!

^Sun, yet being a WASP (that's White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) the sun doesn't care for me that much! It only takes 20 mins. out in its' rays without sunblock 30 and I'm burnt to a crisp! Damn genetics !

<Why couldn't I have been born Italian?!

V Cerebral or tactile

[Jacky Tar]

^ Too emotional t' be cerebral. Too intellectual t' surrender t' the illusions perceived by the senses.

< But still a silly romantic that believes in things I can't see, touch, hear, smell or taste.

V Romantic or Pragmatic?

[Capt. Sterling]

^ Pragmatic

< I have no time to be romantic, just ask Cheeky and the Wif...snigger

V pass along the question

[Red-Handed Jill]

^ Both - I am the ultimate pragmatic, but must admit to an occasional romantic streak.

< Part Indonesian and North African, so I don't burn all that easily. Although my skin is pretty fair.

V pass along the question

[Cheeky Actress]

< I have no time to be romantic, just ask Cheeky and the Wif...snigger

Hmm...there was a tyme, Sweet that you use to....(Deep Sigh)! I got to get myself a man who can keep me in my station!

^ I would say both....though, I am quite the romantic when I put my mind to it!

< Yet, the mood hasn't been there as of late...

V pass along the question

[Ransom]

^ Romantic, with a healthy dose of pragmatic - prevents dissappointment, most of the time anyway.

< My husband is a romantic for sure. Who else would bury four pairs of pyrate socks and a lovely card into my suitcase without my seeing him do it, so that I could find them on my second morning in Port Washington.

V Pass the question on.

[CrazyCholeBlack]

^ pragmatic

< there isn't a romantic bone in my body

V what's the least romantic thing you've ever done (or had someone do to you?)

[Capt. Sterling]

^ too pragmatic to even know no matter what Lilly says....

< Two days off, okay back to sewing... have two pairs of trousers almost complete for the Swanson grommets

V passing the question along: what's the least romantic thing you've ever done (or had someone do to you?

[LongTom]

^ What a strange question. Too many ways to answer that. I assume you mean "with someone with whom romance otherwise is or could be a factor." Heck, I don't know. Defrosted our freezer? Irrigated a set of episiotomy stitches?

< Romance is overrated. Novelty fades. It's supposed to. We are not meant to be perpetually off-balance. (Which is not to say that romance isn't nice, when you can add a little in. But people mistake it for the thing that cements a strong relationship, the sine qua non of being together, and that's why so many fail.)

V Passing the question along, to see if somebody else has a clearer idea how to answer.

[Red-Handed Jill]

^ Told a man, "I don't want to marry you." He wasn't asking; we were just discussing the subject at the time.

< I'm with you on this Long Tom. The media has got us thinking that it's supposed to be perpetual bliss, when in fact the "honeymoon period" is supposed to be transitory. If the relationship is worth anything, you transition to becoming life partners and work at the relationship to make it function. And by work, I mean those things that you did so willingly when you were still in the honeymoon stage.

V Pass the question.

[Jacky Tar]

^ They had an affair wit' someone else (Romantic fer the other fella).

< Romance over rated! Nay! Wit' out it ye hav a bunch o' platonic relationships. Couples wit' out physical or emotional desire fer each other. Marriages o' convenience. A little romance please.

V Wot do ye do t' keep the romance alive?

[Cheeky Actress]

Lilly looks over at Captain Sterling: "Never mind his mood, everyone! I never do!"

AND...Thank you, Jacky Tar for speaking your mind on the subject of romance. The world would be such an dreadful place without a little romance!

^ Do the unexpected...something that is 'not in your nature' - I'd give you suggestions, but this is a family show!

< It can be very challenging to come up with new and exciting ideas, sometime!

V I pass Jacky's question along...

[Capt. Sterling]

^ Quiet walks along the quarterdeck in the full moon, trying to ignore the presence of the rest of the crew...

< How'd I do?

V passing question along

[Silkie McDonough]

^ Wot romance? I travel a few hundred miles.

< I'd like to try worn and comfortable on for a change.

V How did you meet your better half? If you don't have one then how did you choose your pet?

[Cheeky Actress]

^ Quiet walks along the quarterdeck in the full moon, trying to ignore the presence of the rest of the crew...

< How'd I do?

V passing question along

- Lilly looking over at her Captain. - Very well...for a change!

^ How did I meet my better half? We worked for the same company. He was always trying to get my attention by walking by my desk every day. I knew what he was up to so I scared him to death with my overly agressive nature ( ). We've been married happily for 12 years!

< Gosh, the look on his face was priceless when I told him, 'what the word for the day' was - an expression I had never heard before...so I quickly picked up a dictionary and told him!

V Passing along the question...