jj - cool. I'd love to see photos of the oars; paddles, as they are antique, especially. I'd direct you to Old Town Canoe's home website - and into accessories, and collectables specifically. There, you'll see, and probably freak over - three antique repro's on metal of old Old Town Canoe catalogue covers - the 30's, 40's, 50's - man they are great. - @
www.oldtowncanoe.com
I wish I had my old decorating police around.....
So jj you , in an effort to be a good subject of the Queen
. are having to move the painting... is the French grudge thing the Canadian French vs. anglais thing I read about, although of course your reference was all in fun, I know... but to understand the humour better....
I had a painting of a young teenager I bought when Mamie was about 13, and the girl in the photograph was an astounding dead-ringer for Mamie, leading a brown Appaloosa, just as Mamie was being given lessons on ... eerie... and we hung it over the fireplace then, in complete agreement........with the decorating police - Merry lol. Now that, she is gone (and I do NOT mean to be morose sounding, but today is hard...her birthday would have been this coming Monday, and.. well I am sure you guys understand, and I do not wish this subject to proceed me at all......) Mamie is taking me out to dinner that night to jointly celebrate or rather commemorate, her Mom's birthday.)
Anyway, now that she is gone......we have taken the picture we simply called of Mamie, and Mamie and I hung it over HER home's fireplace Mantle, fitting..... as I had moved out of the house Merry and I were in together, rash move but it was too hard too be in that 3,000 square foot house alone....and look at the couch....I should stop there to be more polite. Anyhoo, the painting - is "hangin' " just great , Podunk and jj, and Mamie is now the heir-apparent to the status of home decorating police.... actually that would be more than heir-apparent, it would be
de facto heir decorating police - of her and Chuck's house. And so it goes on.....
Sorry to stray a bit off of thread Podunk. Thought jj would like to know about the Old Town collectable wall-hangings - sorta on-thread, but not of Gord. Yes, my paddle is my prize Gord-thing, hanging rustically on the wall by virtue of three strategically-placed hard-cut old-fashioned nails for atmosphere upon close inspection. However, I would add for functionality, wall hanging items of three-dimensionally odd size - such as my signed Paddle, the hard-cut (aka old-style horseshoe nails as well) work great.
More commonly used nail by the old boys for 3-tab and other asphalt roofing, they have a great asymmetrical shape on one axis of the head of the nail viewed as a planar surface, and symmetrical on the other axis cross-wise on the head. This is noteworth only because when hanging the odd 3-D items, the long axis at the head of the nail makes a great lip that things won't slide off-of at the foot of the item. I also used these to hang, on a royal-escutcheon-shaped wood plaque , a pair of incredible late 17hundreds (18th century) dueling pistols - flintlocks, they are, with removable dual barrels, pulling out a rusty old pin allows the barrel to be removed for - cleaning, I suppose. Dad brought those home as a grand-slam gift from Toledo, Spain, where he got my brother a pair of amazing dueling broadswords, in a gold family-crest family logo -covered metal "pouch" for the criss-crossed swords to slide in and both be visible.
Dad had gone to Europe, Germany specifically, as an Ambassador and technical liason both to Germany in the joint German-American space-program's spacecraft-to-the-sun project called H..E.L.I.O.S. - a greek word I believe for our sun, in acronym form , NASA's common convention of naming inter-planetary spacecraft, and especially rockets... by ancient Greek mythical and real names - eg Apollo, Centaur, Atlas,etc. Of the swords, I was jealous..... but later learned ( not that THAT is what matters at all in a gift) the value of the dueling pistols was so high I went out and insured them that week.
Thush endeth Shwords for two-hundred dollars Alexsh (SNL Sean-Connery game-show skit).
Podunk:sorry to hear about the monitor problem you are having too. Sucks. Mine has no speakers, and da**ed if I will go out and buy two mini speakers while the flat-screen wonder with littlel "Harmon Kardon" speakers would tweet away.... is supposed to be covered under warranty. OF course, best buy says its a software/CPU problem - I say - um duhh,, it would not work on my old CRT now if thats the case....and so it goes... lol
~geo shteve