almost ready for launching day!
Hi Micrologists,
Another fun-filled day out in the sun doing the spring fitting out
chores on my MICRO.After yesterdays' gentle pamperings,came the
cosmetics.Nothing like a fresh coat of paint and varnish to get the
juices flowing in eager anticipation of another season on the
river.Also,nothing like a swarm of marauding winged insects to test
ones' patience either!I am not sure exactly what type of evil bugs
these were but I did observe their nasty habit of being nowhere abouts
while preparing the surface to paint and then,as if by magic,appearing
right out of thin air the moment the painting or varnishing would
begin.
At first,I was picking them off the fresh paint with the tip of a
tongue depressor but it soon became evident that this was a fools game
designed to drive me stark raving mad.It was only after I noticed how
they would remain very still once they had alighted onto the wet paint
that it occured to me that I could just leave them alone.With their
spindly little legs and feet caught in the quickly drying paint,these
little rotters would suffer for their impertinence!I shivered with
glee at the thought of them attempting to become airborne,later this
evening,to return home to warmer quarters.I can almost picture each
one of them breaking out into a furious sweat as they beat their
little transparent wings in vain.Aye,never again will they experience
the once simple joy of flight,free to harrass innocent bystanders.Nor
will they ever again experience the ecstasy of
airborne-multiple-partner-copulation in the mating frenzy associated
with spring.Happily,the boat yard is located far enough away from
residences.That way no one will be kept up half the night with the
screaming and whinning of a couple of hundred trapped little bast**ds!
By late tomorrow afternoon,I expect to find nothing left of their
presence other then the spent carcasses of this once proud swarm of
paint sniffers.Any still found alive will be dealt a mercifully swift
swipe of a paint-thinner-soaked rag which will forever remove their
rotten little bodies,along with all those little foot prints,from my
paint job.
With a clean conscious,I expect to finish up the fitting out with
a coat of anti-fouling paint and a return to water by Thursday
evening.
Happy boating season to you all!!!!!
Sincerely,
Peter Lenihan,feeling just a wee bit evil,on the shores of the
St.Lawrence.............
Another fun-filled day out in the sun doing the spring fitting out
chores on my MICRO.After yesterdays' gentle pamperings,came the
cosmetics.Nothing like a fresh coat of paint and varnish to get the
juices flowing in eager anticipation of another season on the
river.Also,nothing like a swarm of marauding winged insects to test
ones' patience either!I am not sure exactly what type of evil bugs
these were but I did observe their nasty habit of being nowhere abouts
while preparing the surface to paint and then,as if by magic,appearing
right out of thin air the moment the painting or varnishing would
begin.
At first,I was picking them off the fresh paint with the tip of a
tongue depressor but it soon became evident that this was a fools game
designed to drive me stark raving mad.It was only after I noticed how
they would remain very still once they had alighted onto the wet paint
that it occured to me that I could just leave them alone.With their
spindly little legs and feet caught in the quickly drying paint,these
little rotters would suffer for their impertinence!I shivered with
glee at the thought of them attempting to become airborne,later this
evening,to return home to warmer quarters.I can almost picture each
one of them breaking out into a furious sweat as they beat their
little transparent wings in vain.Aye,never again will they experience
the once simple joy of flight,free to harrass innocent bystanders.Nor
will they ever again experience the ecstasy of
airborne-multiple-partner-copulation in the mating frenzy associated
with spring.Happily,the boat yard is located far enough away from
residences.That way no one will be kept up half the night with the
screaming and whinning of a couple of hundred trapped little bast**ds!
By late tomorrow afternoon,I expect to find nothing left of their
presence other then the spent carcasses of this once proud swarm of
paint sniffers.Any still found alive will be dealt a mercifully swift
swipe of a paint-thinner-soaked rag which will forever remove their
rotten little bodies,along with all those little foot prints,from my
paint job.
With a clean conscious,I expect to finish up the fitting out with
a coat of anti-fouling paint and a return to water by Thursday
evening.
Happy boating season to you all!!!!!
Sincerely,
Peter Lenihan,feeling just a wee bit evil,on the shores of the
St.Lawrence.............