See the bulge in this f#ckers belly? That's our four baby Cardinals!We had a little discussion and Bic and I both blame momma and papa. We rarely saw them feeding and we kinda thought that was odd. So, you got babies screaming and snakes stalking, mother nature takes it's course. Still hate snakes.
Just testing my ability to upload vids with blogger. It seems there is no problem uploading my old vids but I can't get a new one to. dang it!
Anyway this is last year when it was cheaper to rent a car, buy gas and drive to Boston than flying on short notice. Wonder how it works out now!
Update: Just saw momma with two fawns skirting the tree line. I had the camera ready but she stayed just out of the shot.
Then, after momma filled their bellys, I took a peek. Four, stuffed all together little baby cardinals [not even hungry].
I was going to wait till she was outside and all done to take the next pictures but you see I couldn't wait. This is the toughest part of a job like this because the to-do list is all these little things that end up taking way longer than you think. The windshield still needs two more coats of varnish to get caught up and you can see there's plenty of dust laying around. The white hull needs two finish coats at least before I put it on the trailor. I'd love to paint the soles [floors], finish varnish the interior and then one final complete coat of varnish, but I'm not so sure the owner wants me to, $$$. Not to mention polish all the crome and clean the steering wheel.
Crossed a milestone here yesterday by getting rid of all the old fuse boxes and other unnecessary crap that had been added to over the years. Also there is now no overhead wires coming into the house.
With all this crap out of the way [dismantle the copper and sold] I can now slowly but surely rewire the house and have a place to properly run the power from. I also have a wire chase [box] running from these new panels all the way to the other end of the house so all the wires are neatly run through this main channel. All neat and tidy!
After a few caulking repairs on October Morning she should be feeling good for the summer. I could convince the owners that the aft deck needs a sanding and patchwork but while doing that front deck, my shoulder and arm took a beating holding back that 8" grinder which is always trying to jump out of your hands and if it does, it WILL damage the gel coat.
When we bought this house on the hill, the entire 1800 sf upstairs and most all of the 1800 sf apartment in the cellar were completly [only small paths] filled with antiques, books, boxes and stuff. We made an offer "as is" but they wanted to "go through" the tons of stuff. OK We let them do it on weekends and such for the next three months, untill they got exasperated with the volume of all the stuff. They wanted to haul it all to the dump for us. No,no, we'll go through it we said. We have rooms of furniture that need a little cleaning and some glue, piles and boxes of books, many from the 1800s. Old railroad memrobelia, dynamite boxes and all kinds of old stuff. When I get the gumption I'm gonna set up on E-bay and auction off most of this stuff.
The sanding of teak decks is right up there when it comes to dirty jobs. As the years go by the teak wood slowly looses the pith [loose part of grain] on the surface through wear, sun,weather and washing. That makes all the rubber seams, seem like the rubber is coming up out of the seams, but its not, it's the teak shrinking. So when sanding something like this, your really sanding all the rubber first and it's a nasty, dirty thing to sand.
Got an E-mail recently from my nephew who went off on his trip to South America by car. That was the diesel and vegetable oil running VW Rabbit. Well, that trip fell through after his buddy fell into luuvvee with a girl back home. So my nephew carried on his own and ended up in Panama where he slipped a ride on a sailboat to New Zealand. First stop, 10 days out, 860 miles, The Galapagos Islands. It's slow going, sailing through the doldrums [areas near the equator] but soon they'll hit the trade winds and take the cake run down to the southern Pacific. This trip that he is taking is tops on my list of things I still want to do!
Let me tell you folks it sure was hot out there in the boatyard doing this job. I much prefer working out under the cover of the slips, it makes me smile just thinking that people pay me what they do so I can enjoy myself making their boat more like how they really want it, Ha.
I'll be finishing up this project by the end of the month.
That makes me think of Yucca!
Have you heard about the new "Ray Gun"? You can't help but runaway and you do, just that!
