GB
Chief Eating Officer
OK Reanie, first you need to explain HOW that is used to warm a bed.
Guess what this is a photo of!
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Reanie525i
Sous Chef
GB - This was is an antique, so I am not positive. I think that they put sand in the middle then placed the jug in the fire - The ceramic was known to hold the heat for a long time - A good place to keep your feet nice and toasty!!
GB
Chief Eating Officer
Very interesting. Thanks!
SizzlininIN
Master Chef
I bet they put ambers from the fire in it.
Reanie525i
Sous Chef
Yes - That would make sense - I want one of these warmers in my bed durng the winter!!!
Buck
DC's Angel
phinz
Head Chef
That's the USS Constitution. Old Ironsides. Charlestown, Mass.
Buck
DC's Angel
Right, right and right. Your post. Suggestion; let's stay with the Naval theme (after all, you started it with the Hunley!)
Take it away!
Buck
Take it away!
Buck
Snoop Puss
Head Chef
Interesting about filling your bed warmer with sand, Reanie525i. I had something very similar in Britain, made not that long ago either, when I lived in a very old house in a rainy part of the country and any help keeping warm in bed was welcome. I called it "the pig" given its looks. It must have been slightly different to yours because I had to fill it with hot water, like an ordinary hot water bottle. It would keep hot all night long and into the next day, far better than a rubber hot water bottle. One night, one of the cats decided it was so cold he was going to come under the quilt with us. He got the most awful fright when he saw the pig! Mind you, they were all quite happy to snuggle up against it on top of the quilt during the daytime.
phinz
Head Chef
Buck said:
I'll have to do it this evening since I overslept by about 25 minutes this morning. I have just enough time to check messages. Sorry guys. Time out!
phinz
Head Chef
About 11 years ago I ate escargot and drank Napoleon brandy on the aft salon deck of the MV Nadine in this bay, with the lights of the city dancing, gentle swells rocking the boat slowly and the tarpon chasing baitfish that were attracted by the lights of the glass-bottom sofas in the master suite.
That was the best week of my life, and a beautiful night to cap off the trip.
Where is this? What bay/harbor/port? What island?
That was the best week of my life, and a beautiful night to cap off the trip.
Where is this? What bay/harbor/port? What island?
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phinz
Head Chef
I spin this web and nobody wants to hazard a guess? I feel like I'm hogging the thread.
Snoop Puss
Head Chef
Phinz, I have no idea. I've just looked up MV Nadine on Google and come up with a peculiar "Magdalean Islands", where a ship of this name sank in the 1990s. I hope it's not the same one. As far as I can tell, "Magdalean Islands" refers to the Madeleine Islands. Anyone else have any info?
SizzlininIN
Master Chef
I tried to google but wasn't coming up with anything and after a 1/2 hour search I gave up......sorry Phinz
phinz
Head Chef
I erred. It was M/Y Nadine, not M/V Nadine, but she did sink. She got caught in a Mistral between Sardinia and France and sank a year or two after we were on her. Her story is in a book called Megayachts.Snoop Puss said:
She was called Coco Chanel for a while, when she was owned by the designer of the same name. She was bought later by Bernie Little of Miss Budweiser and Big Eagle fame and christened Big Eagle. He later sold her and bought his next yacht, christening that one Big Eagle (which was featured in the movie Striptease as Big Sugar). He still held an interest in Nadine, which was christened such by the new owner (Jordan Belfort of stock price manipulation and securities fraud infamy), whose wife was named Nadine.
The M/Y Nadine spent her winters in the Caribbean and her summers in the Mediterranean. This harbor is on the very same island where customs agents responsible for patrolling the path of Air Force One for President WJ Clinton were seriously injured in an accident. IIRC, one died later.
phinz
Head Chef
Bingo. You're up Ken.
He's watching the Grey Cup right now. He'll put one up later.
Y'know phinz, I was in that harbor but didn't recognize it. Looks different from the deck of a ship I guess. LOL!
Y'know phinz, I was in that harbor but didn't recognize it. Looks different from the deck of a ship I guess. LOL!
phinz
Head Chef
Not to mention I chose a picture that didn't show the cruise ship dock, Frenchman's Reef or Water Island. That's Hassel Island in the foreground and King's Wharf in the upper right.
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