It's never nuthin'!

Here I am lifting up a 3000 pound boat with a 1/2 to chain hoist. All because I have to crawl under the boat (once again), contorting myself to work around the trailer support beams and such because the freaking fiberglass skin peeled off while I was ripping it up at lake Commanche last week....If you play, you gotta pay!

been away for awhile

just got back from a trip with the boat, feeling good, checked the mail where her lawyer sent a filing that took me down. the lies. Are we going for the truth or using every weapon to get as much as we possibly can regardless of how we get it?

Here's where we are right now

Now that the chicken wing contest has passed, I have had a chance to resume the Correct Craft project boat. The "covering boards" being complete, have now vacuumed off the deck in preparation for the next step: filling in the area with straight planking. Gotta make decisions, though, whether to have seams inbween planks or not....too bad Stanley isn't around anymore for consultation.

3rd place!...and had a lotta fun!

Well, I did it. Took third place in the contest....now am free to continue on wid da boat but haven't yet.

chicken wing cookoff

That's what I been doing lately...ever since in a three pint buzz, I signed up for the "wing ding cookoff". that was 2 and a half weeks ago. Since then I've been working on my special Icelandic Viking wings that will blow your fxxk'n mind man! tommorrow, Jan 20th, the event happens. Please pray that I achieve 3rd place. FYI: I had never cooked wings before signing up for this. Vote for me, the underdog.

Away, I went away, to the town of Chico

Been out of town for about a week, boat project to be resumed shortly, thanks for your patience.

23 strips of wood...

...went into the bow "covering boards", (i use this term gingerly). Let's shout out YOO-HOO!! for finishing this pain inthe butt portion of the boat! think about it, 23 little pieces of wood forced into bending around a curve, a curve so-o-o tight I was worried about them snapping! Anyway, this is not a time for complaining, for dwelling on bad things that could have happened (but didn't) ...nay, now is a time for celebration for plowing through this thing! Please help me celebrate by raising your glasses high and saying "Skol" in a grand Danish/Icelandic/Nordic tradition!