| The "Guess What's for Dinner" Trek May, 2004 |
| Squirrel Stew Gone Bad! Okay, it was a lovely shade of "purest green," but we learned an important lesson- don't ever use an antique kettle that hasn't been cleaned. Acidic foods or not, copper oxide (verdegris) will come off in a rapid boil and is very poisonous! |
| Mutts and Mad Tom discuss sign |
| Mutts... The Man, The Myth, The Legend!!! |
| Marty Jones and Mutts |
| Being one stylish gent, Mutts brought me a great bottle of port. This was no ordinary port, he'd picked this up when he did the Tower of London drills last year. While relaxing at the Yeoman Warder's Club (quite an honor in itself), he was told he could buy a few bottles. These are generally only available to the Yeoman Warders ("Beefeaters"), and their families. After a great trek, it was a real treat for each of us to end our three day weekend with a glass! |
| Mad Tom gets my Blunderbuss ("Skunk") to "spray!" |
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| Geoff "Mad Tom" Hushaw and I hatched the idea for this trek back back in January. Geoff is a fellow amateur historian and although his time period is WWII, he'd grown curious about the treks he'd been hearing about over the years. One of my best friends since high school, the fact that we're both pushing 40 seemed excuse enough for him to take time off and fly up to Sacramento from Phoenix. As luck would have it, another close friend of mine, Steve "Mutts" Rutherford, was going to visit us while he was out from Oxford for a conference in Tuscon. He was more than interested in joining us on the trek, even though it meant toting some of his 17th century kit half way around the world. |
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| Fine Dining ("Ignore the color AND TASTE and it's not half bad!" |
| Mutts and Mad Tom- "Drop that spoon and step away from our stew!" |
| Mutts on point whilst Mad Tom and Josiah discuss sign. |
| Mad Tom has a bowl whilst carressing "Skunk" (Josiah's blunderbuss). |