Author Archives: canoelover

What an afternoon… What a sunset… What good food… What good company… What a sunrise… What amazing paddling… Words fail me (please note time and date). Respectfully submitted,    Canoelover P.S.  Coded message to Rosie: one Gomphid, two Libellulidae, innumerable Sympetrii, and … Continue reading →

Got a new book today. I had this gift card that had $13.21 left on it, so I bought a book.  Another book on crawlies.Turns out the cover spider is our friend, the Tan Jumping Spider.  Cool, huh? The other … Continue reading →

…but if there are enough opera singers in Ohio…it just might push us over, despite the efforts of the Republican war machine to limit voting booths in neighborhoods with a majority of opera singers.

Down the road from my Mom’s house is a little fruit stand that has been there forever.   Grampa shopped there, and although his name was Vern, not Verd, I think they shared a common bond of names that started … Continue reading →

Here’s the finished product, after heating and rubbing and hand-burnishing.  These gunwales were light grey when I got this boat. Ye Olde Extra Secret Canoelover Miracle Gunwale Elixir works wonders.  No stain, just the natural color of the wood (white … Continue reading →

One of the benefits (okay, the only benefit) of getting up early to drop the boy off at school for a Cross Country Meet bus at 6:15 is the beauty of an almost-autumn morning.  Ground fog was all over today…lovely. … Continue reading →

It’s the time of year when the days are blissfully temperate, the nights are just cool enough to make you thankful for your sweatshirt, and a man’s thoughts turn to canoe gunwales. My canoe fleet has a lot of wood … Continue reading →

It’s a Crane Fly (genus Tipulidae). The cool thing about Crane Flies (and all Dipteras) are their counterweights…their halteres.  Those little knobby things sticking out of the fly’s thorax are the functional equivalent of gyroscopes.  They counterbalance the movement of … Continue reading →

Why, oh why? Why do (some) Mormons post pictures on their family blogs of their kids sitting on the can? It happened again. This is not an anomaly.  This, as I stated back in April, is not an isolated incident. … Continue reading →