Stanley get's skunked!

Here's a shot of Stanley in a less explosive time, by that I mean he got sprayed by a skunk this morning. The ever vigilant guard dog knew something was up and managed to shake him out but not before getting hit. The brave canine soul that he is, none the less I forced him to retreat as I took over the task of ridding our backyard of the pest. Making loud noises to no avail, I chucked a couple of rocks and chunks of wood at him but it didn't faze him.....had to bring out the big gun, a powerful air pellet pistol and filled him fulla lead, well sort of, I don't think it actually penetrated his thick fur even. I gave up after that and wife Carol called animal control, they came over but the skunk had dissapeared into a recess full of wood out of reach of Mike the animal control guy.....so, I have a strong feeling we'll have to deal with critter again, gives me the shudders thinking about it....i'm not too good with creatures like that, it's reassuring that Stanley is as brave and smart as he is.

Clamping down...

....on the mini glue lam as work continues one mini strip of wood at a time.

Rematch

In the battle of the titan glues, Gorilla glue won out over Sumo glue in the re-match. I wanted to do a rematch because I felt it may not have been fair to critisize the Gorilla glue for being hard to squeeze out of the bottle (hurting my hands) when the Gorilla glue in question was sitting in the cabinet for 2 years.

So in the rematch the testing team bought a brand new bottle and guess what? It flowed just as good as the Sumo glue and what made it the winner is it cured more rigid. Both glues foam but if you push on the Sumo glue (after it cures) it is spongey, while the Gorilla glue is firmer......and tougher and because of this, the winner.

Going organic

Instead of using plastic mini fibers to thicken the epoxy, thought, hey, why not use sawdust and mini wood chips instead! So I did, looks like someone "diarrhea'd" on it but seems, so far, like it's workin pretty good......knock on wood.

Continuing not knowing what the hell i'm doing...

the mini glue lam continues, pictured is a "stick-o-wood" being bedded into the rotted out cavity. Used the construction glue for this, although this has been a combo-products mix of various glues and epoxy resin....a tossed salad of glues if you will. ..........note how dark and gloomy it looks now, is this a harbinger for what's going to happen in the future?...er not?

Stanley, me and the boat

Making hay while the sun shines

well, not exactly, but did manage to suck out bilge water while Stanley supervized. And, completed the first (of three) layers of the "mini glue lam."