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Saturday, June 30, 2012

 
RANDOM PRETTY/YARD

 
RANDOM 9/11 AVOIDANCE TOUR

penultimate

 
RANDOM  OCT UP NORT TRIP

 
RANDOM MAY TRIP W/ THE DANES

i hate lawns.

 
RANDOM LURE


 
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RANDOM FALL DRIVE W/ RYAN

 
RANDOM ESTATE SALE TOUR

 
RANDOM 341 OBJECTS

OLD CLAY/POTTERY 'amle mask w/ FROG BOWL/salacious atlatl form wink wink-$9


The bowl is 3 ¾” by 1 ¼” deep. The other thing is 4” by 3” by 2”, and at my age, and with my tendency to ramble on like I was home with Her, the cat and my faithful dog, Huckleberry, I’ve learned when it’s best to just ShutTheHeckUp.

 
 Since there is no word for it, I’ll tell you what “blushing” sounds like; a dan-o-mite fuse burning.



 
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FRANCE..... capets lost vigor, louis X "le hutin", the quarreller, brief, feudal anarchy + weakness, distress + famine 1315-13156+ campaign against flanders, failure, 6/1316 louis died, queen pregnant, had son named john, lived 7 days.



next philip V, "the tall", no girls allowed. 6 miserable years. he died in 1322,















next charles IV, "the fair", who 6 yr reign ended in 1328. capets caput "cursed by templars".
charles, count of valois, younger brother of phil , another uncle. his eldest son, phil appointed guardian of the pregnant queen of charles. out pops another girl, the barons joined to decide who, no girl or son of a girl, chuck IV's girls no good. Edward III of england claimed, his mom isabella. no girls, so crown phil of valois.
the new monarch found able. had been a great feudal lord, hot + vehement, after feidal fashion; he was now to show he could be a severe master, a terrible king. (OOPS!-georgee. the french did this all the time when a line fizzled!) subdued revolting flemings for cousin louis of flanders + havine replaced him in his dignities, returned to paris. the lords had voted for him for a new feudal monarchy; they were still enjoying crushing the flems. his cousins reigned in hungary + naples, his sisters married to the greatest lords(nepotism, of course); the queen of navarre, his cousin; the young king of england gave him homage for guinne + ponthieu. the barons soon realized they picked wrong. phil VI supported by the lawyers, struck them whenever they gave him a chance. he also was harsh w/ traders, hampering + all  but ruining them, til the country was alarmed + discontented(geogee!). on the other hand, young edward of eng had succeeded to a troubled inheritance, + at the beginning weaker, his own sagacity + the advance of constitutional rights soon enabled him  to repair the breaches in his kingdom + to gather fresh strength from the prosperity + good will of a united people. while france restricted, eng opened her ports, trade grew as it withered in france. by his marriage w/ phillipa of hanault, ed secured a noble queen, the happiness of his people, + good relations w/ the low countries(obama). in 1336 the folly of phil VI persuaded lous of flanders to arrest english traders there; whereon ed stopped the export of wool, + the jacquemart van arteveldt of ghent(at the beginning of his power) persuaded flemish cities to throw of allegiance to their french loving count + go w/ ed. in return Phil  VI conspired w/ the scots, the hereditary foes of eng + their 116 yr war that exhausted both, begins. they brought great, but barren triumphs for eng + the most wars, were a WASTEFUL + TERRIBLE MISTAKE(iWaq) +  inflicted PERMANENT DAMAGE  in eng.
the war began in 1337 til 1453. treaty of bretigny in 1360, treaty of troyes in 1422 + final expulsion in 1453.
phil vi believed himself equal + far reaching plans. the pope in his hands, useful to curb  + harass the emp.. P VI mastered the flemish + w/the help of the scottish king, hoped to embarrass ed III + to have ed cede his french lands. intending to wear him out, but a cold war. ed's interests in a hot war  + he the aggressor. flems + brittany defended + hoped to keep ed away from the heart of france. unlucky phil an idiot, harsh + rash + threw advantages away(tora bora). in flanders the repressive commercial policy, dictated   by phil, gave ed the opportunity in 1337, of sending Derby w/ a fleet + blockade + open flemish arkts + france powerless against brit yeoman-archers. in 1338 ed crossed over to antwerp to look at what could be done, the other front in brittany began in 1341. beginnings gloomy + no glory. did not send defiance to phil til 1339, + proclaimed he was king of france. flems meet the english in the vermanois, no fighting + campaign fizzled. norman + genoese ships threatened s england, landing in south hampton + isle of wight. in 1340 ed returned to flanders, on his way attacked the french fleet at sluys + besieged it + ed had mastery of the channell for centuries, wasted srength + siege of tournai went nowhere. phil in 1340 seized guienne + edinburgh castle fell from brit hands to douglas. john III dies in brittany, john monfort his youngest brother claimed the fief against niece jeanne, daughter of his older bro guy, count of peathiene. salic law-NO GURLZ! jeanne married to charles of blois, whom john III had chosen. charles also nephew of phil, who was on nephew's side. john of monfort appealed to ed III, + the 2 kings met in border strife in brittany. the bretons sided w/ john against the french. both claimants made prisoners; the ladies carried onwaring, jeanne of m against jeanne of blois, all going good for france til phil, w/ a barbarity as (stupid) foolish as scandalous(torture), tempted the chief breton in paris + beheaded them w/ out trial(abu graib). the war which had been suspended by a truce, restarted + the english raised more men + supplies to attack 3 sides- flanders, brittany, + guienne. the flems no good, the people of ghent in 1345 murdered jacques van arteveldt as he was tryingv to persuade them to pic ed as count + ed learning this, went back to england.
to be continued.

 
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1948 lincoln continental

 
RANDOM EBAY OBJECT

if you wanna pay $100+, it could be yours.




 
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RANDOM FALL DRIVE W/ RYAN

 
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RANDOM MAY TRIP W/ THE DANES

 
RANDOM OCT UP NORT TRIP


 
RANDOM 9/11 AVOIDANCE TOUR

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Friday, June 29, 2012

 
RANDOM HOARD

i just really like the color

 
RANDOM 9/11 AVOIDANCE TOUR

pabst complex

 
RANDOM OCT TRIP UP NORT

 
MAY TRIP W/THE DANES

 
RANDOM LURE


 
RANDOM LANDS & PEOPLES


 
RANDOM FALL DRIVE W/ RYAN

 
RANDOM ESTATE SALE TOURS

tree porn


 
RANDOM 341 OBJECT

ANTIQUE OAK BALLOT BOX w/ handmade marbles, B&O railroad firemen UNION used-$57

 Since I bought this authentic old ballot box from a friend, I know a little about its history. That’s because my friend bought it from the estate of a friend of his, and the guy had used it in the early days of his career as both an engineer on the B & O Railroad and an active member of the old “Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen.” The “B of LF&E” began in 1873, and it merged into the UTU in 1969. 

I’ve never seen and nicer example, and by some miracle, the original handmade marbles remain with the box.


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