BS: It's Crowing Time Again!

Subject: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: Kim C
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 11:16 AM

Last weekend Mister and I went to a pre-1840 blackpowder shoot, and while I did not shoot as well as I had hoped, I did win a prize! Plus I also won a prize for my tomahawk throwing. (I guess all that practice paid off!) AND we sold three tapes to people just sittin around the campfire Friday night.

Anyone else? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: GUEST,Mad4Mud at work
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 11:20 AM

KimC, I make it a habit to never try to upstage anyone who wins a prize for tomahawk throwing. Congratulations! It sounds like it was fun!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 12:45 PM

Kim,
Congratulations! Today the tomahawk; tomorrow the caber?

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: bob jr
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 12:49 PM

i never did understand people who brag about their prowess with weapons that are meant only to harm people..

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: Wesley S
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 12:49 PM

Kim - Where was the shoot and what caliber were you shooting ? My brother { ironmule } goes to these shoots and recreations on a regular basis. And feel free to tell us more about the tape. I must have missed it on another thread.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 12:52 PM

So Kim.....Did you do better than Ed Ames did on the Johnny Carson Show? (If you have never seen it, he was doing the Daniel Boone series at the time and demonstrated tomahawk throwing. They had a lifesize target shaped like a man and he stuck the tomahawk right in the crotch. The laughter went on for at least 10 minutes.)

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: Wesley S
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 01:25 PM

....and as I recall Spaw the handle of the tomahawk was pointed up at a rather suggestive angle.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: Kim C
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 01:26 PM

Athena is a 45 caliber flintlock, a Dixie Gun Works replica of a Pennsylvania long rifle. Blond wood with nice brass inlays. She belonged to my father and hung on the wall for at least the last 12 years. I inherited her when my father died last year.

The shoot was at Davy Crockett State Park in Lawrenceburg, TN. No people were harmed in the competition, only innocent targets. (And one spider. Sorry about the spider.)

Yes, I think I did better than poor Ed! I surprised myself since I had sucked so bad with my target at home.

Our tape, which came out last year, has five "traditional" songs and five original songs that sound old. Mostly Civil War-related, but not all. Interested parties can PM me.

Who else has surprised themselves lately?

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 03:22 PM

Well Fiddlebum, last night I ripped this massive fart and the damn thing smelled to high heaven! This is unusual because as a rule, my shit don't stink.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: MMario
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 03:25 PM

*chortle* He's right, y'know!

thanks for a laugh, 'spaw!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: Kim C
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 03:39 PM

Yeah, but that wasn't QUITE what I had in mind! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 04:00 PM

Okay then....try this!

my 8 year old Michael is attending an Art Camp at the Ohio Decorative Arts Center. The kids range in age from 7 to 15. They are working on a set for a play and some of them are doing the play. Michael has been having a pretty good time but it's not what he (or Karen and I) were expecting. He was hoping to do a lot more drawing. He is working away painting clouds and making flowers and such though and having a pretty decent time anyway. He's there 4 hours a day.

Last Thursday he finally had a chance to do some drawings along with some of the other kids who were out of things to do on setwork temporarily. This was the first time that anyone there had seen his drawing. When I picked him up, Trish, the head honcho pulled me aside and quite enthusiastically said, "Michael is quite an artist!"

I agreed but with the disclaimer that I was his Dad and not a casual observer. She then told me that she thought she would use one of his drawings for the cover of their play program!!! Michael was pretty cool about it but Dad was stylin' and profilin' back to the van.......Yes..Yes..Yes!!!!!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: jeffp
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 04:02 PM

A couple of weeks ago I went to Irish Week at the Augusta Heritage Center in West Virginia. At one of the singing sessions, I got up the nerve to sing this for a crowd that included Robbie O'Connell and Frank Harte. Much to my shock and amazement, it went over incredibly, and Robbie pronounced it "brilliant" and requested it again the next night. Needless to say, my head grew several hat sizes.

BTW Kim, isn't it fun throwing tomahawks? That "thunk" when it hits the target is very satisfying.

jeffp

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: Don Firth
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 04:31 PM

Spaw, re: your earlier post, have you ever been down-wind of a black-powder firearm when it went off? Phe-e-e-e-u-u-wy!!!

A bit of thread-drift. bob jr, Kim C is not necessarily bragging about her skill at being able to inflict injury. It's a sport. I've done a lot of target shooting (Smith & Wesson Model 41 .22 caliber, designed as a target pistol, never intended to be used as a weapon and poorly designed for that purpose -- it's over a foot long, has a muzzle-brake, and comes in a box, not a holster). The whole purpose is to improve your scores at poking holes in a piece of papar at 25 yards. The mental set is kind of like golf.

Also, I used to fence, but I never, ever, had any intention of trying to kill someone with a sword. Facing someone in a combat situation with a foil in your hand (and a protective mask on, of course) and imagining that if your opponent slips through your guard, you could wind up with two feet of sharp steel through your lungs is a kind of romantic, atavistic fantasy that lends a certain caution to your swordplay -- but to be faced with the real thing is not romantic at all!

There are a lot of sports that were serious survival skills and abilities in times gone by, but in a modern, civilized world, have outgrown their practical usefulness (I don't regard trying to inflict injury as "practical"). They are thoroughly enjoyable sports, nevertheless.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: Kim C
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 05:46 PM

Spaw, that is great about Michael. Maybe you will post his drawing in your online photo album so's we all can see it? (that reminds me, I need to update my album!)

Congrats to you too, jeffp. I hope to get to one of their hootenannies one of these days. And yes, I like that "thunk" sound.

Fencing, now that's something else I'd like to get into. Then I could be the yodeling fiddling fencing tattooed tommyhawk throwin flintlock shootin belly dancer. Reckon that would draw a crowd?

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 06:00 PM

I wonder if anyone is in a position to post the words of Les Barker's tragic account of "Cosmo the fairly accurate knife thrower and his lovely assistant..."

They somehow seem appropriate here.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: Don Firth
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 08:48 PM

It's a great sport, Kim C. In my heart of hearts, I have always liked to regard myself as a troubadour-swordsman. (but don't tell anyone)

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 05:45 AM

Bob jr... I thought you were going to leave the 'Cat or, at least, stay on the strictly music threads. Have you ever been to a weapons competition ? If not, I suggest you take one in before you make such a comment... you could volunteer to be a target in the tomahawk throw.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: MMario
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 09:23 AM

Am I the only one that has noticed that WyoWoman's name is now listed as managing editor in The Mother Earth News? I don't think anyone has mentioned it...

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 11:35 AM

Ahhh... yup... don't recall the thread, but it was filled with congrats on her achievement.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: MMario
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 11:49 AM

when she got the job - but there was a couple issue lag before her name came out in print. This issue is the first.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 12:08 PM

Suitable for framing !!! Congrats again to WyoWoman !!!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: Kim C
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 01:21 PM

Wow! The Mother Earth News! Seems like Mister had the Very First Issue, once upon a time... wonder if they're worth anything?

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: Kim C
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 02:50 PM

Heehee!!! Come see Mister and me on the web at:

I'm a Hero

We participated in a book tour at a local historic site.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: Don Firth
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 02:58 PM

Wow! Definitely crowing time! Looks like you've been busy lately!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 02:58 PM

For the second time since we got up
It's crowing time again...

To all the recreationists and 'civil war buffs' who go out and re-enact these battles and such, I plead...

"Will you people please start using live ammunition?!?!?!"

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: Kim C
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 03:06 PM

Are you saying I deserve to be shot? 'Cause that ain't very nice. ;-)

Believe me, though, there's some people who would use live ammo if they thought they could get away with it. And there's been more than one incident where an improper weapons inspection failed to detect a live round left over from a day of target shooting. I think it was at the 1999 over-large Gettysburg event that someone loaned his pistol to a friend who was participating - he hadn't checked it himself, and it turned out to have a ball in it. Someone did get hurt, albeit not seriously.

Some of us Civil War buffs are fun people. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 03:20 PM

Anybody who re-enactsd war aught to be tossed into the real thing!

The death toll might just raise the global IQ!

It's a dumb as North America trying to ban toy guns, BUT KEEPING THE FECKIN' REAL ONES?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Idiots!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: Kim C
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 03:30 PM

well then forget I said anything this was supposed to be a thread for people to share their accomplishments and happy stuff

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 08:12 PM

Kim C... don't you mind any of those naysayers. Be proud of your accomplishment. As for those who have no understanding of your passtime, or even of the fact that they would be in a sorry state if it weren't for our technology and prowess with it, hey man, you can't teach a blind dog to pull it's own weight... you just let them eat with the rest of the pack and comfort them when they whine. Of course, dogs have more sense about some things. Too bad some people don't.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: R!
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 08:31 PM

And now for something completely different. Due to disability I could no longer continue my beloved English country dancing. I've spent quite a long time getting myself mobile. Last night, for the first time in four years, I danced. Only for an hour, but I danced. And I believe that's worth crowing about.

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From: DancingMom
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 09:20 PM

Oh, to dance! how wonderful for you! Congrats on your perseverence. I blew the doors off the National League of Nursing test I took back in the spring, the day I fell and sprained my ankle (with such grace!) walking into the classroom for the exam. I took a final exam and the NLN with ice on my foot and strong pain meds supplied by my classmates not kicked in yet. I got my test results back last week. I scored in the 99th percentile. OOOOH, yeah! My husband always says I do my best work under pressure. Sharon

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 09:29 PM

Great stuff KIM!!

And Dancing Mom.....hopefully I don't need your professions services anymore, but if I do, you can be my nurse anytime! Congrats to you too.

And I have WW's first issue of "Mother Earth"......pretty cool girl.........'Course I didn't notice it at fist because I was looking for Pansy Rue Bob Twidgett instead of KC!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: ddw
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 11:55 PM

I wouldn't mess with the gun lovers, Clinton — one of 'em might take your sword, turn you around and hide it for you....

LOL

david

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: Kim C
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 10:03 AM

Rowana danced!!!! Rowana danced!!! THAT is exciting. I wish you many more hours of dancing.

Congrats on your test, DancingMom. Top 1%, well, that's pretty darn good!

Personally I don't know how we ever won a war with flintlocks. There's only about 11 steps in the loading process...

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: jeffp
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 10:19 AM

Fortunately, the other guys had flintlocks too!

jeffp

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: Kim C
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 10:35 AM

heehee that's what my friend Doyle says too!

Somebody who's REALLY good can load and fire three times a minute. I'm not there yet.

Next project: archery. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: GUEST,Nick
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 12:04 PM

Bob I dont agree, the rifle and tomohawk are tools of subsistance, they can be put to other uses though.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: sledge
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 12:28 PM

Nick, while I can't comment on the history of the tomohawk, the history of firearms has not been driven by subsistence, its been war that has given guns the impetus to evolve from matchlock to wheel lock to flintlock, then as soon as production methods caught up mass produced rifled weapons of war followed, don't let romantic Davey Crocket stuff obscure the reallity.

Having said that I would have liked to have fired a flintlock, there is something wonderfully archaic about the idea of the flash in the primming pan the slight pause then bang, and the large cloud of smoke. As long as the gun isn't pointed at anyone it sounds like a great pastime, I don't see many rampages undertaken with muzzle loading flintlocks.

Kim, I hope you can get up to the three per minute.

Sledge

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: Kim C
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 01:06 PM

Well, I guess it depends on where you are. If you're trying to lay in a food stash before winter, it's a subsistence tool. If your fort's under siege, it's a weapon of war.

It's two-two-TWO guns in one! And Crockett had to use em both.

I seen a matchlock demonstration when we were at Jamestown. The guy could load and fire in 30 seconds. Mister thinks he is going to build himself a matchlock, but I ain't too keen on the idea. It's just not as pretty of a gun.

If your flintlock is really well-made (and clean!), there is virtually no pause a-tall between the spark and the CRACK.

Thanks Sledge, I'm gonna work on that. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: Kim C
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 02:00 PM

Will somebody please remove the spam?

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From: Kim C
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 03:07 PM

Thanks, whoever got rid of it.... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: Kim C
Date: 17 Aug 01 - 12:05 PM

This morning Mister and I have been invited to play a fundraiser event at a local historic site. The director was telling me who else was on the bill, and she mentioned some other local folks, "...and the Peasall Sisters, who sang in O Brother Where Art Thou..."

The Little Warvy Gals! We get to share the stage with the voices of the Little Warvy Gals!!!!

That'll be September 8 at Travellers Rest here in Nashville. I'll post it on the What's On thread too. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: jeffp
Date: 17 Aug 01 - 12:38 PM

Oh wow! You are having a time aren't you? Keep it up!

jeffp

Subject: RE: BS: It's Crowing Time Again!
From: Kim C
Date: 17 Aug 01 - 12:47 PM

Well... we ain't getting paid... but we can sell tapes, and they will probably feed us... It's just right down the road, though, so it's not like it's a huge effort to get there. :-)