Filed July 26, 2005 at 4:20 pm under Boring Stuff by TJ
Greg-
Sorry I didn’t have your email address, my email form is apparently not working correctly. Please feel free to contact me at tjt@insightbb.com
If the transom or stringers are bad, run, both are death to those boats. I do still have the motor. I also have a 1961 Compact Skiier for sale as well. If you get this, contact me at the email address above.
TJ,
I’m looking at purchasing a 1961 Correct-craft w/trailer. According to the seller all it needs is a new transom. I’m presently rebuilding a 19-foot Lyman and my wife think’s I’m nuts. Anyhow, this boat does not have an engine. I’m thinking that you pulled your 6-cly and installed a v-8. If so, do you still have the 6-cyl.
Anything you can tell me about your experience with your boat? I’m familiar with Lyman’s and the clinker style planking but not cold molded marine grade ply boat repair.
If this thing just needs a transom (they all need more than just what you
see) then maybe it’s a sweet deal. I just have to find a place to store it. —greg
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Filed July 25, 2005 at 10:36 pm under Uncategorized by TJ
This toast comes from my cousin Tom. It was so good, I had to share it… In Tom’s words:
Something I used to hear while living in the islands…and now repeat given the opportunity.
“Here’s to the heat
Not to the heat that burns down bridges
and brings down shanties
But here’s to the heat that excites
And brings down women’s panties
Arrgh!”
Filed July 24, 2005 at 1:07 am under Uncategorized by TJ
I’ve had a couple of people ask me to send an email to them when I updated my blarg page. Since I currently don’t have RSS feeds, and I am too lazy to program a trigger for updates (and find that feature fairly annoying), I decided I was going to setup a newsletter. Be sure to sign up for it, and likely I will send an update every week or two or four. Most likely it will have a recap of the blarg, random thoughts in my head, favorite drink recipes, maybe even a hint or two about computers, since that is what this pirate does when he is not pillaging ships.
Sign up for the newsletter here.
UPDATE (7/25/2005): Newsletters are now active, and the first one was sent out a bit ago. You can also get a newsletter archive at the sign up pages.
Filed July 23, 2005 at 9:50 pm under Uncategorized by TJ
Tanner got her first boat ride today! We parked on Party Island, hung out for a little bit, fed and changed her, then in the water she went. She’s quite the little pirate in training, maybe we should nickname her “Scrub”?
If you want to see more pictures, they can be found here.
Also, while T-Bear was up visiting, we took about 50 more pictures, which can be found here
Filed July 21, 2005 at 10:53 pm under Uncategorized by TJ
Enough hillbilly talk, this blog is about a pirate, one who loves being on the water. T-Bear is up this week, so I took a vacation day to take her on the boat. Some waterskiing, tubing, we even finally figured how to actually get on the knee board.
Some pictures are here
Filed July 21, 2005 at 12:55 pm under Boring Stuff by TJ
So, I’ve had lots of questions about the fact I called myself a hillybilly earlier this week. Even while over at my parents house, somehow we got in the discussion of hillybilly “terms” that my dad or myself uses (my dad regularly uses “irregardless”). I figured I’d write a little about my background of of living and growing up in Kentucky. But first, everyone has heard of “Talk like a Pirate Day”, but what if someone wanted to hear this pirate talk like a hillybilly here on a regular basis?
Click here to see this web page in my native dialect.
Fo’tunatly, this hyar pirate has wawked hard t’be able t’talk t’th’ ress of th’ wo’ld, cuss it all t’ tarnation…
Well, enough of that….
I had my first school experience at …
Johns Creek Elementry School in Pikeville, KY, which apparently has changed quite a bit since then, as it made the list of the Top 100 Best Small Towns in America. Heck, they even host the Annual Hillybilly Days Festival, one of the largest events in Kentucky. We lived in Pikeville until about August 1978. While there, we went through a flood in April of 1977, that was a total loss pretty much for the whole county, and the blizzard of 1978 (Wierd, looking for links of good information on both events produces a lot of information, just nothing worth reading…). There are two kinds of hillybillys from Kentucky. The first are the ones who are proud of their heritage and stand up and admit they are a hillybilly. The second try to hide their heritage. The third need to take their shoes off to count to 20. In August of ‘78 we moved to Crestwood, Ky, where I spent my days pretty much up through high school. I’ll have to expand more on that later, as there is a lot of content there. So, as they say, one of my legs is longer than the other from walking on the hills in Appalachia. If I start to write in some odd sounding language, just use the information below to translate for you.HillBilly Edukashun
- Benign – What you be after you be eight
- Bacteria – Back door to cafeteria
- Barium – What doctors do when patients die
- Cesarean Section – A neighborhood in Rome
- Catscan – Searching for Kitty
- Cauterize – Made eye contact with her
- Colic – A sheep dog
- Coma – A punctuation mark
- D&C – Where Washington is
- Dilate – To live long
- Enema – Not a friend
- Fester – Quicker than someone else
- Fibula – A small lie
- GI Series – World Series of military baseball
- Hangnail – What you hang your coat on
- Impotent – Distinguished, well known
- Labor Pain – Getting hurt at work
- Medical Staff – A Doctor’s cane
- Morbid – A higher offer than I bid
- Nitrates – Cheaper than day rates
- Node – I knew it
- Outpatient – A person who has fainted
- Pap Smear – A fatherhood test
- Pelvis – Second cousin to Elvis
- Post Operative – A letter carrier
- Recovery Room – Place to do upholstery
- Rectum – Damn near killed him
- Secretion – Hiding something
- Seizure – Roman emperor
- Tablet – A small table
- Terminal Illness – Getting sick at the airport
- Tumor – More than one
- Urine – Opposite of mine
- Varicose – Near by/close by
Hillbilly Kompurter Wurds
- Keyboard – Place to hang your truck keys
- Window – Place in the truck to hang your guns
- Floppy – When you run out of Polygrip
- Modem – How you got rid of your dandelions
- ROM – Delicious when you mix it with coca cola
- Byte – First word in a kiss-off phrase
- Reboot – What you do when the first pair gets covered with barnyard stuff
- Network – Activity meant to provide bait for your trot line
- Mouse – Fuzzy, soft thing you stuff in your beer bottle in order to get a free case
- LAN – To borrow as in, “Hey Delbert! LAN me yore truck”
- Cursor – What some guys do when they are mad at their wife and/or girlfriend
- Bit – A wager as in, “I bit you can’t spit that watermelon seed across the porch longways”
- Packet – What you do to a suitcase or Wal-Mart bag before a trip
Filed July 19, 2005 at 10:28 pm under Uncategorized by TJ
Well, maybe not fruitcakes, but fruits. No, I’m not calling anyone a fruit. I’ve recently taken to making cooked jams from the strawberries in my garden. Must be a hillbilly thing from my upbringing, but when I found out that the local Marsh had Ball Jars, I took an interest.
My parents stopped in Georgia on their way back from Cocoa Beach, where they were last week and picked up some fresh ripe Georgia peaches. Tonight, I made up a great batch of peach jam.
We’re not talking about freezer jam, or anything like that, but real, cooked, canned in ball jars and processed jam (sugar free with Splenda too). I think, for the next batch of stuff I can, I’m going to be making apple butter from the recipe below.
Mmmmm, apple butter and fried biscuits…
Old-Fashioned Apple Butter according to Ball,
6 pounds of apples
2 cups sweet cider
3 cups sugar [approximate; see below]
1.5 tsp cinnamon
0.5 tsp ground cloves
Wash and quarter apples. Combine with cider and cook until tender. Press through a food mill or a sieve. Measure 3 quarts of puree. Start cooking the puree, stirring ‘frequently’ until a spoonfull of
puree stays rounded.
Add the sugar and spices. Cook til thick.
Pour into pint jars, keeping 1/4 ” headspace. Process for 10 minutes in a boiling water bath.
Yields 3 pints.
Filed July 19, 2005 at 3:14 pm under Boring Stuff by TJ
So, I haven’t been very active here the last couple of weeks. Things have been busy, and honestly, the weather has been crappy. Hurricane Dennis sat over the midwest, or at least my house for the better part of last week, causing some very wierd weather. Hell, I haven’t even seen the boat in over a week now…
On a good note, T-Bear is visiting for the rest of this week, before she has to go home for the start of school, and the weather looks nice for at least the next couple of evenings. I believe we are going to have to take her water skiing.
Several people said my last post was kinda sappy, and that may be the case, but as I said, this Pirate can be sappy if he wants to.
Started reading a new book this week (thanks Sandi!), and low and behold it start off with a great story about Tully Mars, a cowboy from Wyoming, and his exodus away from a poodle farm. This short from Tales from Margaritaville really expands on the ASPOL story, filling in portions of the background and history of Tully in Wyoming, and how things in ASPOL came to be. So far it’s well worth the read, and I wish I had read it before ASPOL.
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Filed July 14, 2005 at 12:26 pm under Uncategorized by TJ
I was planning on posting yesterday about Tanner, but never got a chance. I guess today is as good as any. I was going to mention that she’s doing well, eating more, pooping less (yeah, I am sure you wanted to know that) so it was only a matter of time before she starts sleeping more.
Guess what? Last night she slept 7 1/2 hours straight.
Newborns can zap the energy right out of you, but that fatigue will turn into waves of love when you see your baby smile for the first time. Yeah, this soggy ole pirate can be sappy.
The last couple of nights, after work, Tanner and I have sat on the couch catching up on reruns of the Charmed TV show for a few hours, giving Mommy a break for a little bit. Tanner loves to dance, smile, fuss a bit, sit up, watch TV and all that stuff, but most of all, she loves hanging out with her Daddy after work. It makes the lack of sleep worth it. It puts a smile on her face. It puts a smile on mine too…
Filed July 12, 2005 at 10:43 pm under Uncategorized by TJ
Moose was poking fun at me for not posting in over a week, so I thought I’d make a quick update, and expand on more later (hopefully not like a week later or something like that). It’s just been really busy. Sorry… And as I told you before, I am lazy. Or, maybe the problem is that I’m drunk? Naw, must be a lazy thing, haven’t had a drop since the weekend…
Haven’t taken any good pictures of the munchkin in a few weeks, so I thought I’d get some taken and posted. Isn’t she cute? You can see more images by clicking on the picture.
Teressa loves playing with Katelyn. These pictures were why she was up earlier this summer. Katelyn is my niece, who is also a new big sister to baby Matthew James. Teressa just got back from camp, and will be back at my house next week. We’ll hopefully get some more good pictures of my T-Bear then.
For now, click on the picture on the left to see more pictures of Teressa and Katelyn.
And the other big event recently was the floating 4th of July party on the Rum Runner. It was quite a time, and ended with the Rum Runner tied off on Jack’s pontoon for the fireworks. You can see some great pictures in that gallery as well, by clicking on the picture.
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