Grant took advantage of a strong wind to get some photos of the Union Jack rippling in full glory. The flagpole, which he is making, is not yet finished.
And here we see Midnight Fiddler in her natural habitat.
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Sweet. MF, love the costumage!
Flamablamablous! Nice pictures!
Hey, MF told me about that!!! Omigosh, I’m so jealous…^_^
And, hey, Grant…you look pretty hott in those pictures…lol…don’t worry, I don’t have a crush on you, or anything.
Oooooh! You’re a sailor on a tall ship? I want to do that! I really want to do that! I want to be a tar! A British tar is a soaring soul/
As free as a mountain bird! I’m incredibly envious.
1~ Merci! We have a new costumer, and apparently he didn’t understand how shotr I was , because I was given an apron longer than my petticoat. We got it all fixed though, so if you come to Jamestown look for me with a green apron.
That’s my favorite hat though, I always hope to find it in the loaner box for volunteers…luckily I usually do!
4~ Well, I haven’t actually sailed on any of the ships yet, but I hope to. I’ve gone through a bit of sail training though! We went aloft. Probably one of the most amazing things I’ve done in my life, I loved every moment of it, even though I was scared to death.
Those are great pictures of Grant, too!
ooh, awesome pictures both of you!
None of you could even guess where I would have been. Well would have been if there wasn’t all this snow *stares outside* I guess maybe with the snow I would be in a white world. Nothing but white.
7~ Where would you have been?
Can I send pictures of myself with my eyes blocked since you can only show people with parent’s permission? Last time my dad e-mailed you and said it was ok you didn’t post. It was the picture of me in Tiananmen square reading Muse from my old e-mail.
Oh man double post!
Correction: I was in the Forbidden City, not Tiananmen Square.
(9) As far as I know, we never got the email from your dad. I’ll look into it when I get a chance.
Midnight Fiddler, I was caught up in my envy so I forgot to comment on your costume. That looks smashing, the clothing appears very accurate, and I must say you make it look good. I wonder, how old are you?
I apologize if this is a double post, but to my untrained eye that ship looks like a brigantine.
Wow, MF that looks like so much fun!
Grant – Great flag!
Are we ever going to have another Time Capsule? ::hopes::
no offense… but who’s grant?
Heh. Natural habitat? I am in my natural habitat, RIGHT HERE AT MY COMPUTOR.
Great pictures, though!
15- Oi! I’m Grant! I’ve been here since forever! I got the second Muse ever printed!
15 – “Ultimate Supreme Executive Chairman Grant O.” He was the first person to ever post on MuseBlog.
16 – EXACTLY.
“And here we have the wild Cat’s Meow, apparently taking a nap at her computer inbetween blogging sessions.”
11- Really? He said he e-mailed you at gapa @ musefanpage.com …It was a while ago though so you probably don’t even have it anymore. Maybe when I go there I’ll get him to e-mail you again.
I’m going to find some pictures without me in them.
16 – computer
Sorry, I’m in a spelling mood right now.
(19) If we got it, we should still have it. It will just take some digging. There’s always the possibility of getting lost in an avalanche of spam, though we try to be careful, especially when we’re on the lookout for an email as we were then.
Argleblarg… *extremely jealous of Fiddler*
That’s a neat flagpole, Grant, be it temporary or a work-in-progress….
21-Ok. I sent 2 pictures without my face but they were in 2 seperate e-mails because one wouldn’t go the first time.
MF I am jealous of that ship and your having been on it XD. And nice costume!
Grant, nice flag. Your hair looks darker than it did in the pics you sent before, I think you were at a camp? But cool.
22- Thank you. It’s made of ash I got from a small grove of saplings I usually use for making letter openers. I was over there the other week, and I had been thinking I’d like a flagpole, so I fetched a handsaw and felled the straightest and tallest one of the lot. I then measured the distance between the grommets on the flag and drilled holes through the pole at corresponding positions. What it needs right now is for me to finish shaving off the bark, remove any extra knobbly bits, and sand and varnish it.
24- Aren’t we all. My hair probably looks darker because the photos were taken in the dark and the flash of the digital camera is not that great.
Oh, and that house behind me is not my place of residence. That’s the well house. My house is actually a farm (not in operation), built over 150 years ago, so there’s a smaller house behind it that water would be pumped into the upstairs of, so it could then run downhill and provide a sort of running water. That’s not what it’s used for anymore, it’s just a small house, and occasionally we rent it, but right now there’s a lot of stuff in it from when we demolished this absolutely ancient and decrepit shed right next to my actual house. I’m standing on one of the cornerstones of the shed, that’s why my posture is like that.
Could I send in some pictures of local woods/Chinese restaurants? Would I need parental permission if there weren’t people in them.
No problem with that. We don’t need to hear from the trees’ parents.
I have a question……. What e-mail do we send stuff in to gapa @ musefanpage.com?
12/13~ Thanks. I’m 15.
The ship that is in both of those pictures is the Elizabeth. She is a generic fourty-ton merchant vessel from the early 17th century.
22 and 24~ There are numerous historic sites all over the place, and they are always looking for help. If you look around I’m sure you can find something.
31- WOW! really cool. A special pie for you midnight fiddler for having such knowledge of how old you are and knowing what ship that is!!!!!!! ^_^
32~ Yum, apple, my favorite! *licks fingers off and finishes typing*
Just a note, in case some people haven’t caught it before, I voluteer at Jamestown Settlement, where those pictures were taken. I am a “costumed interpreter” which means I get dresed up in the clothes I’m pictured in and talk to visitors who come through. It’s quite fun, I enjoy being able to talk all day and not get told off for it, along with learning more about square rigged ships, one of my favorite things. (Along with historic music, playing my fiddle, climbing trees, eating and everything else, of course.)
33 – I remember going there when I was 5. I always thought it would be cool to work there. I still do, for that matter.
34~ It is. They are always looking for voluteers, so if you’re anywhere near, look into it!
35 – I wish. Unfortunately, I’m in the Chicago area. The last time I lived nearby I was 7
This summer I’m going to try and get a job as an intern on a tall ship, the Manitou or something. I’ve heard they don’t usually hire new people, but it’s worth a shot, eh?
18-He was?!? COOooolllll………:shock:
*sits speechless in stunned awe of Grant O.*
MF- you are absolutely stunningly beautiful! i mean that with all sincerity.
31- But all the historical sites around here are
a) Lewis and Clark things, for which there are no tall ships and probably no costumes (*sob*) or
b) a couple hundred years too late. I suppose I could look around, but yeah…
Actually I might be able to intern on a tall ship when I’m older, but that’s when I’m older…
(40) Here we have,
1. A historic sight about the 1700s, you can volunteer, and if you go can see what it was like in a school house and everything else.
2.University of Chicago (yeah it looks THAT old!)
3. There is no 3……..
38 – Yup. https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1
The University of Chicago was built to look old. Once when I was out there on business, I walked across campus and was impressed to see that the stone steps outside some of the buildings were worn down like the steps of Oxford and Cambridge. Later I met a science-writer friend of mine for lunch and mentioned the steps, eroding away under the gentle pressure of generations of students’ feet. My friend laughed. “It’s not feet,” she said. “Maintenance crews grind them down with a big machine like a drum sander, to make them look like the ones in England. I’ve seen them do it.” Thinking it over, I reluctantly concluded that she was telling the truth.
(Note to self: Order stone-grinding machine for Muse Academy.)
43- we could get the same effect with chemicals.
39~ Thanks.
Now I’m blushing.
40~ There is nothing wrong with Lewis and Clark! Well, I know, their boats weren’t quite tall ships and it’s more of a guy thing, unless you’re Native American. *thinks* You’ll find something, I’m sure.
45- Precisely. I’m NOT Native American.
It’s amazing that we can live within an hour’s drive of the ocean and five minutes walk from the HUGE river, and still not have an opportunity to reenact historical events involving tall ships…
*phooey*
Bother. There’s always the SCA, but that’s renaissance…
I should stop complaining.
*stops complaining audibly*
Speaking of costumed interpretation, I spent a couple of summers in the 1980s re-creating the year 1876 as a seasonal ranger in the C&O Canal National Historical Park. I steered a mule-drawn canal boat, operated locks, fed and groomed and drove mules, told stories, and played a little banjo.
(14) Purple Panda: This picture is like a Time Capsule, though of course I’m not Muser age. I call it “This is my banjer, an’ this is my mule.”
48-
Heehee.
48~ That’s great!! I love the picture, and it sounds like so much fun. Of course, anything involving getting dressed up in goofy clothes, playing music and working with equines registers as glorious to me.
*sigh….* I’m back. Apparently there is a Civil War reenactment at **** ******* every year, but there probably isn’t much call for girls and I cannot seem to find any information about participating.
51- There’s a place a couple hours to the south of here called Hale Farm. It’s a reenactment village type thing, they rotate years every several months, and sometimes they have Civil War reenactments. Of course, to a person who thinks war started going downhill in 1850, that gets old after a while. I occasionally play there in a fife and drum corps.
45- Potassium Silver speaks the truth! I find it hard to find good pictures of myself, but you pull it off rather well.
wows grant, you look. . .British. in the extreme. bit frightening, actually.
48- how old were you then?? that’s a prety awesome picture.
53- it’s probably the redeye. he looks less posesed in the first album.
(54) Let’s see… I’d have been 29 years old. The mule was seven.
55- wow. you only look about 19/20 to me!
Can I send in a picture of myself?
Last time I thought about posting these photos I couldn’t remember where they were.
One of the highlights of my college days was being part of Christmas in Old Salem every year. These were taken during the first round, so I still had a few more weeks of being 17. We’re dressed in the costume of Moravians of the late 18th- early 19th-centuries.
(57) Certainly, but we don’t post photos without parental permission.
Oh.
Haha these are sweet! Maybe I’ll send in a pic of… I dunno, me reading. Because that’s basically the only thing I do when I’m not on the computer.
Ow. my fingers hurt. Guitar practice has some SIDE EFFECTS… Oh, I also play guitar when “not on the blog”. And I roleplay.
Er, lesse, I could send one in of me playing hockey/flute/tennis, but I wish I had an interesting one… I want to go to Bristol (Renaissance fair a few hours away) in costume and stuff though. That would be amazing.
Did you get my pictures of the forest?
(63) Yes, we got them. We’ve a bit of a backlog on pictures, which I’ll tend to when I get home from work.
I read. And play video games. And watch TV… I only like three shows. And MuseBlog. And attempt to comprehend the world.
51~ Yet another colonial histrory buff? Huh, and I used to think that no other kids my age were really into that period. It’s nice not to be as weird as I thought I was.
58~ Those are great pictures of you!! I love the costume, do you still have it?
66- I love colonial history.
67~ I know, and I’m so glad you do.
It means my mind controlling powers are workingIt’s great to have someone who understands where I’m coming from.68- Shame we live on opposite sides of the country.
Indeed. When are you coming out to visit? Or is there any chance?
70- Er… I don’t know that I’m coming any time soon… I could try to convince my parents to take me sometime in about three years or something. Ugh.
That would be fun, I don’t know if I can convince my parents to take me across the continent…hmm, I could try….
72- Well, don’t you have relatives in Seattle or something? Maybe you could come visit them sometime in this year/next year/sometime soon…
I don’t know, it’s my great aunt and uncle, plus a few od cousins and such. I might see. Unfourtunately I’m rather non-existant on that side of the family. *thinks* SOMEHOW!!!
When I was very little, my family took me to see historic Plymouth. I got into this dress I happened to have along, put on a pilgrim hat from the tourist store, and pretended to be a Pilgrim for the entire day. I was maybe eight or nine.
The dress wasn’t even the right style, but as I was sweepin out William Brewster’s house, a lady tourist comes up to me and says, “Now, do you do this everyday?” I was sorely tempted to say yes, but instead admitted I was not part of the village.
I had so much fun there. I’ll try to find a picture of me.
I posted this on the random thread already, but it’s so incredibly awesome I want to make sure everyone knows: I return from seeing the Coldstream Guards Band and the Royal Scots Dragoon Pipe and Drum Corps in Cleveland! I have a CD and a pin to show for it, and I shook one of the bagpipers’ hand! That has something to do with history. Oh, and I saw a bloke playing a serpent! That ought to be of interest to Mr. Paul Baker.
I could perhaps try to make it to Jamestown. Colonial history rocks. Maybe I could convince mis padres to combine a trip to Jamestown with one to the National Maritime Museum, because my dad’s been wanting to go there.
Did you get my pictures? They are a fly and me in the Forbidden City with a Koko head.
Noticing the oddities of the ordinary — and documenting their findings in photographs — would seem to be a key MBer characteristic (on or off the blog).
Speller73 describes her woodland photos as “worm’s-eye view” and “bird’s-eye view,” respectively.
Unintended Pun took this photo in her dad’s car.
She went further afield for this shot:
75~ Aww, cute.
76~ Sounds like fun, I love bagpipes. My best friend’s little brother is crazy about them and wants to learn to play. I also have a pratice chanter that was given to me with the instructions to scare all the animals in our woods with it.
Whae you go to Jamestown, do let me know. I think it would qualify as a public enough space to meet for a Kokonvention. GAPAs?
78~ Nice pictures!!
78-Yay!
That was me in the Forbidden City. For those on the physiognomy thread, I no longer have that hair, so keep guessing.
Faye sent us this photo of herself. She says: “I was 14 at the time and it was Talk Like A Pyrate Day. Yes, I dressed up for TLAPD. I still do. :)”
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81- That’s so COOL!
I dress up for TLAPD too, when I remember.
I wore a hat.
81- I love your vest! and your costume!
81- I would dress up for TLAPD, but a. My school would probably freak out and arrest me and b. There are approximately no pirate-related pieces of clothing that I own.
81~ That’s neat! You look rather like I imagined, actually.
I have the worst memory on the face of the planet (exaggeration, I admit, but it is poor) and thus am unable to remember who Faye is.
87~ She’s a relatively new blogger who we are all still getting to know. She’s very nice.
My memory is really bad. people ask me what I did yesterday and I give them a blank stare and can’t remember.
I should send in my pic of me in China reading muse too ^^ I never did write that letter. Hum.
88- Oh. I’m most terribly sorry, Faye. Can you find it in your heart to forgive me?
88 – Oh, you are sweet! Thank you.
90 – lol, of course! It’s nearly impossible to know everyone on the blog. Seeing as I just joined, I suppose I’m relatively unknown. But now you know who I am, so it’s all cool.
That’s my official pirate costume. I wear it to Ren Faires (as a peasant/pirate/rogue/beggar person), Pirate Fests, and pirate-related events.
If everyone here in my area wasn’t such a loony, they’d celebrate TLAPD too. I’d tell the people in my high school to do it, but I’m getting out of high school in a couple of months. Eh, at least I can be an anglophile year-round. I sometimes wear my Union Jack T-shirt I bought in Victoria Station.
Speaking of Victoria Station, I never sent in those photos I took while in England the summer before last, probably because I never got access to a scanner. I’m betting, though, that I can go back to the pharmacy and get them on a CD, which is what I did with my NSLC photos (see Album 1). I should do that.
88- I would agree, Faye does seem quite nice.
Of course I’m nice. It’s a well known fact.
excuse my lack of modesty… *chuckle*
At my high school, I started a Pyrate Guilde. It was amazing. We had no opposition, as the ninjas were too lazy to start their own club. Because of me, a large number of pirates come to school on TLAPD.
The shirt and vest of my outfit are part of a pirate costume I bought. I’m so skinny, I had to get a children’s size. But I’m so tall that the skirt is waaay too short. So the skirt in the picture is one I found at a used clothes store. It’s like a lot of seperate pieces of cloth sewn together at staggered layers. I love it. The headcloth resembles fishnet stockings that have been died dark orange.
92- Victoria Station!
Oh, that was so disturbing! It was amazing…
94~ Your dyed orange haienet is called a snood. It’s quite fun to say.
Well, I must say, if you weren’t so nice I’d have to be incredibly angry with you, since Ren. Faires are notoriously fantasy based, and the general public doesn’t know the difference between real history and the “fairytale lands” created by LARPers and most Ren. faires. *grumbles*
Anyway, just so long as next time you go to one you will remember us hardworking people who try to educate a bunch of uninterested 8th graders about history, and make sure that visitors leave knowing that it was all a fantasy dreamland, and not the real world.
Oh dear, I’ve just read over what I wrote and realized what a grump I sound like. I have nothing against Rennasiance Faires per se, but mostly against the vast majority of the public that doesn’t give a hoot about history or drawing the line at correct interpretation of it. Trust me, there are plenty of people who say they do colonial history and in fact are misinforming the public and making the job that much harder for the rest of us.
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Guess what, MF? There’s a living history group around here! It’s one of those things I’m trying not to think about because it’s connected to other things that are so weird they’ve become sort of fuzzily etched in my mind. It’s almost dreamlike.
97~ So, is it good or no that there’s a group in your area? *is unsure how to interpret your last post*
98- It’s good. But I discovered this by going with Brenda to the middle school to talk to her history teacher, which was a weird experience on several levels, and connected to other weird experiences. None of these weird experiences were *bad*, necessarily, just…weird.
96 – no, tis not a snood (though it is indeed fun to say), it’s just a fishnet scarf I wrapped around my hair and held in place with lots and lots of bobby pins.
The Ren Faire by my house is actually pretty accuarte. Sure, they make up a plot every year, but it’s all pretty close to truth!
99~ Ah. So, are you going to look into it? Most living history buffs are pretty neat people, who are excited about what they’re doing and eager to help others learn more about it as well.
It sounds like that could be fun for you, and get you started on the right way to becoming intrenched in history…..we always like corrupting innocent young minds. *dark chuckle*
100~ Ah, I stand corrected.
As far as the Ren. Faire, if that is indeed the costume you wear (and it it lovely, don’t get me wrong) I beg to differ on historical correctness. I did one time meet some people at a Ren. Faire who were doing a very accurite impression and endevoring to teach the public about the time period, unfourtunately hey were surrounded by pirates that looked like Jack Sparrow and women with chain-mail bras. *cough* While I cannot say that this is the state of you faire, I mus say that the general experience with them is rather disappionting.
Well accurate or not, I still like your costume Faye. It looks very cool
I tried to convice the Danish Kennel (K)Club to accept Quetzalcoatl, (my dog) but they said that as we don’t have blood status papers, we can’t. And I said that the papers were lost during hurricane katrina, and then they said that the previous owners should have kept track of the papers. I explkained to them that the previous owners have disapeared and abandoned their dog, so how could we get those papers. Then they said that they weren’t even sure if Quetzalcoatl was a real chihuahua, and maybe I just wanted to get their insurance policies. I therefore measured the dog’s head:
snout to back of head: 9 ½ cm,
horizontal measurement of head (temple to temple) : 6½ cm
ear tip to ear tip: 18 cm.
I sent these measurements along with lots of other measurements, weight, length of tail, snot to tail, degree curl on tail, length of legs, etc, along with ten photos of the dog, and they wrote back confirming that she is a full blooded chihuahua. But we still can’t join the DKK.
In other words, I spent a good 45 minutes discussing things with the secratary for the DKK, and two hours on hold. ;D
And here is the genuine article, herself:
105- Thanks.
105~ Aww, that’s so cute! totally adorable, I’ll never be able to sing about squashing chihuahuas again.
107- yeah… remember that she can materialize out of nowhere and bite on command! (almost)
108~ Look up “Little Gomez”–it’s a song that I was refering to.
I’ll be careful though, and not sing it anymore. (Don’t worry, I don’t usually anyway…)
She’s really adorable, though. *melts*
Awww… That’s a cute dog!! Is that you holding her, Vixen?
And I do believe I haven’t posted yet on this thread! I kept meaning to, but I don’t see any posts from me. Well, these are all neat photos! Hahah, natural habitat, that’s funny
I should send something of me in my natural habitat…
And Koko reading muse! Astounding transformation, UP!
Red-tailed HAWK
Aw… So cute!
Maybe I’ll get a picture of myself backstage among the clutter reading Muse with the rest of the exhausted techies.
110- yeah. This was a a year ago. I’m in shock at how much I’ve changed. Like that shirt I was wearing in the picture of the dog. My six year old brother wears that now. And my hair’s longer now, and i would never, ever, let anyone take a picture of me in a tee. (I have got a problem against me in tee’s, mainly that they don’t fit and make me look like a ten year old. )
My grandmothe has 12 grandchildren, of which I am the oldest and her favorite. Seriously. I am. She made all the girls these really cute designer sweaters, and then she’s making the boys a different one. So yesterday, we sat down and i knitted a scarf and leg warmers for the dog while she made it a matching sweater. I’ll get apicture of me and the dog and the cousins in matchin sweaters at christmas time.
LOOKING FORWARD TO BOARDING SCHOOL!! W00T!
110~ “Natural habitat” might be seen as somewhat misleading, as I seem to have several of them. At Rendezvous, playing music, at the computer on MB, in the water, on ships, on trains and out in the woods. All favorite places to be.
My habitats are simple:
– my room
-te computer
-the library
-the big plaza in Portsomuth with the theatre and Barnes and Noble [mostly BN]
-parked in front of the TV watching nature shows.
78-I love your skirt!
Oh my, this thread is ancient! I wondered if it was still open…….
In response to Grant’s inquiry as to the rig of the ship I was standing on, it’s actually a barque. (also spelled “bark”)
A brigantine has two masts, and square sails on both. The mizzen (or would you call it main? I’m not entirely sure) Anyway, the after mast has both square and lateen (or gaff) sails.
A barque (like the one I was on) has square sails on the fore and main, but a lateen (or gaff) on the mizzen.
So. If you waded through all that, the Niagara is a brig, with two masts, square on the fore, square and fore and aft (gaff, in this case) on the main.
The Elizabeth (the ship in the picture) is a barque, having three masts, square on the fore and main, and lateen on the mizzen.
Did that make sense?