Among my non-accomplishments on the boatbuilding front in the last six months are:1. I moved the boat about a dozen more times. It went from the garage to the patio to the driveway, then back to the patio, again to the driveway, onto the ground in my tomato patch for a while, back to the [...]
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Remember the boat, the original subject of this blog? It's finished, and has been for at least a month, but until this week I've had no way to transport it to the water to launch it. Actually, it has been in a state of near-completion for about six months, but all the little finishing details [...]
Enjoy a fun evening bike ride with fellow environmentalists today at 5:30 p.m. Meet in front of the Lucchesi Community Center for this summer's first hourlong ride to downtown and around town. See you there!
Hats off to the class of 2007! I'm getting good at these commencement ceremonies, as this was my third. My kit contains a box of kleenex and dark glasses, although the latter aren't really necessary because all the other moms are crying, too.
Looks like Marina didn't like my boat.
A fresh crop of graffiti sprouted along Sonoma Mountain Parkway last week, which made me ponder Councilman Mike Harris's proposal to hire a graffiti abatement coordinator for Petaluma. Excellent political posturing, Mike, but let's get down to brass tacks: - Who will this person be? - Will he have a plan? - Will he know [...]
Finishing this boat is getting to be like finishing a quilt. On a quilt, the binding that goes around the edges is the easiest part, but it's also the final and most boring part and sometimes takes forever to do. The same is true with this boat. I just have to plug a few holes, [...]
My original idea was to paint the inside bottom of the boat bright lime green, but I went for yellow instead because that's the color the paint store had in the quantity and type of paint that I needed. The type of paint is oil-based enamel. If you buy it at a marine supply store [...]
In response to my item yesterday about the antiwar protest, Tim Nonn wrote:When I read the story in the Press-Democrat about the protest, I was inspired by the students' idealism to write this poem: They lie about the number of deaths knowingThe truth can be hidden in the numbers.They lie about the reasons the killing [...]