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catsittingstill) wrote2011-03-29 08:22 pm
catsittingstill) wrote2011-03-29 08:22 pm
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The canoe is going slowly because I'm *almost* into the football, so this is where the strips have the most complicated bends and are requiring the most work with the heat gun, especially at the ends of the strips.
Because there is more rocker in the front I am going to turn the tricky corner from "end of the boat" to "bottom of the boat" at two different points in the planking process.
I spent about six hours on it and got four strips on the boat. Four more strips, max and I will be in the football. And I have only about 28 strips to go, so even through I'm behind schedule for getting into the football, I think I may still be on schedule to have the boat fully planked. Cutting the centerline will take some time, of course, and planking the second side, when I have to fit each end of the plank exactly to the centerline, may go much slower. But I have twelve days left that I was planning to plank, so maybe it will be okay.
At any rate, Kip and I have been talking about planting two more fruit trees out front for ages, and it rained yesterday and the day before, was sunny today, and is supposed to rain tonight so I suggested we plant trees today. About four in the afternoon we dug two holes, went out and bought two trees, a cherry tree and a plum tree. We had a bit of a hard time getting them home in the car--we had to tie the door partly down and it skinned one side of one of the branches when it bounced, but hopefully the tree will recover. We bought a sort of brick border for each tree, which may have been a mistake--it looks nice and matches the border we put around the peach tree last spring, but meant we had to dig the holes easily twice as wide as we had. But we got both trees in, and their borders around them, and the excess dirt dumped in various holes in the yard.
The peach tree far and away outshines them, as it is covered with blossoms. However last year it had only two brave little blossoms so I bet next year these trees will look really nice.
But right now I am so tired I can hardly see straight. I only practiced a few things today and that may be all I'm going to do. I want dinner, a hot bath, and bed. And if dinner takes much longer I may settle for two out of three.
Because there is more rocker in the front I am going to turn the tricky corner from "end of the boat" to "bottom of the boat" at two different points in the planking process.
I spent about six hours on it and got four strips on the boat. Four more strips, max and I will be in the football. And I have only about 28 strips to go, so even through I'm behind schedule for getting into the football, I think I may still be on schedule to have the boat fully planked. Cutting the centerline will take some time, of course, and planking the second side, when I have to fit each end of the plank exactly to the centerline, may go much slower. But I have twelve days left that I was planning to plank, so maybe it will be okay.
At any rate, Kip and I have been talking about planting two more fruit trees out front for ages, and it rained yesterday and the day before, was sunny today, and is supposed to rain tonight so I suggested we plant trees today. About four in the afternoon we dug two holes, went out and bought two trees, a cherry tree and a plum tree. We had a bit of a hard time getting them home in the car--we had to tie the door partly down and it skinned one side of one of the branches when it bounced, but hopefully the tree will recover. We bought a sort of brick border for each tree, which may have been a mistake--it looks nice and matches the border we put around the peach tree last spring, but meant we had to dig the holes easily twice as wide as we had. But we got both trees in, and their borders around them, and the excess dirt dumped in various holes in the yard.
The peach tree far and away outshines them, as it is covered with blossoms. However last year it had only two brave little blossoms so I bet next year these trees will look really nice.
But right now I am so tired I can hardly see straight. I only practiced a few things today and that may be all I'm going to do. I want dinner, a hot bath, and bed. And if dinner takes much longer I may settle for two out of three.
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