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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 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 →

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 →

Canoelover Junior likes pancakes.

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 →

…so rather than focus on the negative, here’s a lovely Tramea macelata.  A Black Saddlebags. Okay, that’s over. I’m in Denver, which as I said, is very expensive.  Nice downtown, hybrid buses, etc., but still…spendy.  I’m here as a guest … Continue reading →

So last time I posted about Cross Country, I talked about the shirts…their inspiration messages and affirmations of teamwork and such.  Well, Ian had another meet Thursday, and I saw this one… Yes, of course, it was from the local … Continue reading →

Saturdays in September often find me mucking out the garage, digging through piles of gear that has collected over the summer.  All the times I couldn’t find a pair of straps to tie down a boat…well, that’s because they hide … Continue reading →

Super lice! http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=173283 Yours for follicular scarcity,   Canoelover