LiveJournal is OVERsharing...

I actually have a facebook page.  I never post to it and almost never look at it, but I've friended a bunch of people, including some family members whose politics are... lets just say very different from mine.  I don't post my rants over there for a reason.  LJ is now apparently trying to be helpful and crosspost everything.  I *think* I have that turned off.  If anyone sees differently, please let me know.  And please don't crosspost your responses over there.  I doubt it would lead to family troubles (and I suspect the individuals in question already consider me weird) but I'd rather not take the chance of rubbing their noses in something they'd rather ignore.

Now I don't actually have my facebook and lj personas hooked up (I don't *think*) so maybe it wouldn't matter and the crossposts would just go to your facebook pages. 

But still.  Pretty please?

Yet at my back I ever hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near...

I have been waking up at 6:00 am.  I don't sleep as soundly in the morning as I used to, and Kip is getting up at that hour to go teach 7:00 am classes, and once I wake up I start thinking about the canoe...

The insomnia stage--I think it means I'm in the last big push.

Anyway, I've been noticing, it's getting cool in the mornings.  It still hits the high eighties or low nineties in the middle of the day, but it's in the low sixties at seven in the morning.  Instead of the high seventies.

Fall is coming.

Aaagh!  The most beautiful time of the year to canoe is coming and my canoe isn't done!  Aaaagh!

However, I am making progress.  I went to Martin (who builds them with his shop classes) and bought some backup epoxy (he gets it six gallons at a time and was happy to sell me a gallon and a half, at cost.)  I stopped by Jeffries Woodworks on the way and bought walnut.  Because, you know, I had perfectly good ash but it just doesn't go!  With the colors!  The butternut accent strips just cry out for walnut trim!

And it turns out that Jeffries is happy to joint and plane your board for an extra 30 cents a board food, which saved me a lot of time when I took it to Maryville High School because Martin helped me cut it up and cut the scarfs to piece it into gunwales. 

So now when my forearms start burning I can lay off with the sanding and glue the gunwales together.  I'm going to do scuppered inwales this time but I have plenty of walnut left over for that.

And incidentally I found a piece of white pine so thick I can resaw it to make bookmatched white pine decks.  Which will look smashing in between the walnut inwales.  And I escaped Jeffries for under 20$.

And I have begun thinking about placement of the seat and middle thwart.  Plus I shall make a wide place on the inner gunwale for the clamp in yoke to clamp to, since I'm going to need a yoke if this boat is going to Quetico, and clamping to the outwales is heavy and clumsy.  So when I can't work with my hands I can stare and mutter and measure and pace a lot.