With this rare Friday post, we’re already a quarter of the way through the “Harvey” sequence, and, if I may say so, the best is yet to come. I’ve been playing around with some tee shirt designs that I hope will be out “just in time for Christmas.” I’ve been saying I was going to do that for 25 years. Maybe finally. I’ve been wracking my brain about what you’d like. Then it occurred to me: I’ll just ask. That is the way we do things around here. Any suggestions? (Sorry, no guarantees!) There’ll be a lot more said about this in the near future.
Hardly Harvey, cont.
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249 responses to “Hardly Harvey, cont.”
GR6,
Spydercos are also handy for slicing small tomatoes!
(Shoulda been “feel” earlier.)
Ah, Sunday’s funny life through the eyes of others.
GR6, it is amazing how many get worried over a “knife.”
Judging by the picture of it, I believe the weapon, ah, tomato slicer in question is the Spyderco Delica, rather than the larger Endura. But no matter…I carry one of each. Remember, as my SWAT ninja instructor says “One is none; two is one.” In other words, if it’s important enough to carry one of something, you should carry a spare.
Good morning, Villagers. Jackie, they had C&W at the Tonk but we were talking so loud I doubt if I heard the lyrics to a whole song. I hear there are some great Christian songs in the country repertory, one by Trisha Yearwood seems to be enjoying the you-can-say-anything-unless-it’s-Christian crowd. But that’s one of the great things about never listening to radio, you can’t recognize an annoying song by the first four bars.
Oh, it was sweet of you to think of transport for me, but aren’t you forgetting I work Saturdays?
Wind sprints done for the week, hurrah. I am getting dressed for Church. We are wearing robes so nothing fancy, though I have a new Dolce & Gabbiano I am dying to wear. I didn’t wear it to the Tonk as I didn’t want to get sweat and/or beer on it. Not to speak of blood. I just wore a tank and short denim skirt with old tennis shoes. Darned men kept asking me to dance but I showed them a little card that said I was in mourning. Well, I am. My goldfish died. When I was eoght. 😛
How dare they!
This may be of some interest to you former (and current) Squids out there, especially those of the flattop subspecies. I thought it was pretty neat, too. 🙂
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/03/us/navy-carrier-anchor/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
I also tried to go to the “Just a Peek” strip. I got comments for that date but no strip. Tried several ways of getting to it… the link thru the title… the link thru vintage… nada! Hmmmmm…. you suppose Jimmy has put a lock on it because he figures it is a money-maker? Just saying…
Yeah, there was a nice pic of the anchor transfer on FB. My friend the ex-Navy copsman served on the Really Big E and he said she was in really bad shape, and you don’t hear Navy men running down their former ships often.
Ghost, Lily, Spydeco is one of our sponsors for Sail OK and donated two of their very best knives to us for prizes this year. I actually know and am friends with the owner and boat manufacturer who is a small boat nut like the rest of us and produces the Sage 17 sailboat. I beg every year for them to loan us a Sage 17 but they send the model to the Annapolis boat show, which I compete against with dates.
Darn! But the knives are fabulous prizes and we all endorse the Spydeco brand and use them too.
Love, Jackie
Ooops, I should have read all the posts before I said my yard was full of bearded men carrying Spydeco knives on their persons!
Everyone who sails should have a good knife on a lanyard where they can get to it in case they have to cut lines in case of a capsize and being caught in lines or a passenger/crew caught. It is actually a event you should plan for.
Most of the guys who run adventure events use a preparation list created by a guy named “Chief” as in Marines, career. He started the Everglades Challenge about 10 years ago and has a rigid list and you have to meet it and be inspected. Or turned away.
We have had people in Watertribe have to use knives and other rescue stuff, especially the hypothermia materials.
Love, Jackie
Gal, if you went to the blog archive for 3-24-2008 (available at the bottom of this blog), click on the last three words of the third sentence of Jimmy’s comment (“view it here”). That worked for me just now.
Do you think Homeland Security or Secret Service people would investigate a bunch of elderly bearded boat builders as suspicious characters? I say that because a lot of them hold conservative view points but not all. We never talk politics or religion actually, it is not what anyone comes here to discuss.
They want to talk boat language to those who also speak it!
But whenever they are sailing in Florida or the Texas coast everyone swears the Coasties pay a lot of attention to them. I think it is because they figure we are all nuts to be out in a boat as small as we often are!
Love, Jackie
One more “tee-shirt” suggestion – I would really like to see the one-size night shirts as an option. An A&J nightshirt would be great! If you offer all the different sizes that are being suggested, a nightshirt shouldn’t be too hard to throw in there!
We are currently involved with tee shirts on my not for profit boat festival and we only printed one design (art work donated) in one color but multi-colors on artwork. One side only, limited sizes.
The problem is not only art work and color printing but quality of shirts and fabrics and numbers to be ordered. No one donates this kind of thing, you have to pay to get it done and Jimmy will have same problems I suspect.
I underwrote ordering Yellow Rubber Ducky merchandise to sell for donations to American Cancer Society as well as underwriting all the food costs and programs costs, etc. We are running ACS donations and sales straight to a check(s) to them and I hope I can get enough donations to cover food costs.
We had another member underwrite tee shirts for ACS but not general festival shirts or caps because we were trying to funnel money to ACS donations.
This applies to Jimmy and his tee shirts as well. This is a very expensive proposition to get into, tee shirt sales and caps. I will be grateful to have what JJ decides on because I know how darned expensive and complicated this gets. There is a minimum to print for each and every size, color, style and design/logo in each and every color and size and style!
Love, Jackie
OF due 1251-1311, background geyser blowing now.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Granny. Great idea. I’d have bought her one if they’d been available back then. Peace, emb
Jackie, as a former member of Uncle Sam’s Navy, it’s an article of faith in the Deep Water Navy that you have to be at least six feet tall to be a Coastie. That way, if your ship ever sinks you can wade ashore.
Let’s don’t forget an official version of Janis’s sheer and sexy “Little Black Nightie”, although I’m not sure how, or where, the graphics would be placed. Oh, and an official little yellow bikini, too.
Jackie, I have no doubt at all there are elements of the USG that regard people like your friends as dangerously individualistic, and therefore view with them deep suspicion. Who are these people who sail Small Boats far out into Big Water, anyway? Who knows what they might be up to out there? Why, there aren’t even any surveillance cameras out there to keep an eye on them. (Other than drones, EL/M-2083 radar platforms, and KH-11 spy satellites, of course.) Some group of faceless bureaucrats is probably even now working on a mechanism to “more closely regulate” such people.
gr6, i tried to post a link to that view it here and even that would not post. that is why i posted the blog link where you could view the strip. perhaps the a&j blog is locked from postings from its earlier versions?
Heh, Ghost and Jackie, my friend once in the Navy says that there is a requirement that all “Coasties” be at lest six feet tall. Why? So if their ship sinks, they can wade ashore. 😀
JJ, congratulations on Auburn whomping on LSU and rising to #2. Too bad they don’t have Florida State on the schedule.
GR6, on the sheer styles it is what lies underneath that is graphic.
On some of our “adventure events” we must use tracking devices that show our locations and EPERB (spell?) so if we need to be rescued they can locate us. Since every year the Coasties have to usually do at least one or more rescues, they have reason to be suspicious of people in very small boats in tropical depressions and warnings because our bunches keep going!
Several friends are ex-coast guard, including my friend who just wrote and published his first book and is doing a writing seminar for us. He was a rescue swimmer and tore his rotator cuff, so out.
The Seals and the Coasties are all big tall guys. I always say the Seals hold auditions, they look alike!
Ghost, the friend who was career Air Force in special ops is a smallish guy, exceptional grade school teacher. I thought he’d be huge and tall, he said he did communications and size wasn’t so important! The Coastie teaches middle school, another special ops Navy submariner, career, became a nurse.
This fascinates me, by the way, they are superb at what they do.
Love, Jackie
Congrats to Auburn. As for FSU, I will not discuss them in polite company.
Jackie, my experience has been that those who were very good at what they did in the military tend to be much better than average at whatever they do afterwards. Hiring a veteran is not just the thing to do, it’s a sound business decision.
Ghost, you are SO right! I did not pick up on the different color of the text there. So yes! A peek! LOL