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May. 30th, 2006 07:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickThe weather continues hot. After a disappointing beginning to May, we are now getting an end to May that moved us directly from substandard springtime to excessive summer. I think the thermostat on this thing is broken.
In other news, there was horse shuffling over the weekend. I did not participate in that, being under the spell of the red, red wine, but other people did. In the process of horse shuffling, they moved Wren home from Odie's so that she's more conveniently located. Wren is Meat's baby from ages ago. She's probably four or five this year and it's high time someone got on her, so she's been moved to the project horse category. We shall see how that goes. One sincerely hopes it will go more smoothly than project horse #1 (the IRH) who is still not very sane and makes regular attempts to kill me, or as regular as the attempts can be when I don't get on her all winter. I visited Wren today in the field and said hello to the IRH, who was more pleasant than she'd been all winter. Damn horse is like a jealous girlfriend... You never call, you never write, and now you show up and want to get busy. Well! Of all the nerve! Regular visits help with that, so I'm making an effort. Meat is still over at Odie's so I didn't see her today.
I also hung my exciting, exotic, expensive string hammock last weekend. It's attached to two trees in the side yard. There are no fixtures in the trees and the whole thing can be taken down without leaving any marks on the trees. This is so that brother-the-elder does not yell at me vis a vis the hammock situation. The hammock is very comfortable and I'm quite pleased with it as a purchase.
Shopping for a sunfish continues. For the existing sunfish clone (salvaged from the boat park during cleanup day), I'd need a fiberglass patch kit for the hull (cracked but not gaping), a drain plug (and a retrofitted self-bailer for the cockpit), a sail and sail rings, a rudder assembly, a tiller assembly, a complete set of lines, and some way to straighten one of the two spars, which is sort of bent into a banana shap. (The other spar and the mast appear to be straight.) I have a centerboard, a hull, the two spars, a mast and the gooseneck. That really isn't enough to be going on with. There isn't much of a used market for parts because the fiberglass hull is the thing that lasts and the pieces are what everybody buys and uses up. I priced parts to kit out the boat the rest of the way and it was going to run around seven hundred dollars... so I'm bidding on ebay to see if I can get a complete boat for less than that. The current prospect is sitting at $285.00 with
twenty-one hours to go. I remain hopeful.
In other news, there was horse shuffling over the weekend. I did not participate in that, being under the spell of the red, red wine, but other people did. In the process of horse shuffling, they moved Wren home from Odie's so that she's more conveniently located. Wren is Meat's baby from ages ago. She's probably four or five this year and it's high time someone got on her, so she's been moved to the project horse category. We shall see how that goes. One sincerely hopes it will go more smoothly than project horse #1 (the IRH) who is still not very sane and makes regular attempts to kill me, or as regular as the attempts can be when I don't get on her all winter. I visited Wren today in the field and said hello to the IRH, who was more pleasant than she'd been all winter. Damn horse is like a jealous girlfriend... You never call, you never write, and now you show up and want to get busy. Well! Of all the nerve! Regular visits help with that, so I'm making an effort. Meat is still over at Odie's so I didn't see her today.
I also hung my exciting, exotic, expensive string hammock last weekend. It's attached to two trees in the side yard. There are no fixtures in the trees and the whole thing can be taken down without leaving any marks on the trees. This is so that brother-the-elder does not yell at me vis a vis the hammock situation. The hammock is very comfortable and I'm quite pleased with it as a purchase.
Shopping for a sunfish continues. For the existing sunfish clone (salvaged from the boat park during cleanup day), I'd need a fiberglass patch kit for the hull (cracked but not gaping), a drain plug (and a retrofitted self-bailer for the cockpit), a sail and sail rings, a rudder assembly, a tiller assembly, a complete set of lines, and some way to straighten one of the two spars, which is sort of bent into a banana shap. (The other spar and the mast appear to be straight.) I have a centerboard, a hull, the two spars, a mast and the gooseneck. That really isn't enough to be going on with. There isn't much of a used market for parts because the fiberglass hull is the thing that lasts and the pieces are what everybody buys and uses up. I priced parts to kit out the boat the rest of the way and it was going to run around seven hundred dollars... so I'm bidding on ebay to see if I can get a complete boat for less than that. The current prospect is sitting at $285.00 with
twenty-one hours to go. I remain hopeful.
