Feeling Blue.

Today was perfectly not rainy, and I only got half a plank cut out.

I'm sick,  you see.  And while I was bravely cutting out my pieces I realized that I was having a hard time maintaining my balance.  Power tools + feeling wobbly = bad idea. So I packed up and called it a day.

Afterwards I looked up boat christening traditions and started wondering if my Rio will ever have a christening ceremony.  Then I cried.

I'm my hardest critic, and while I'm making good progress there's a part of my brain that's furious that I'm not farther along.  It's almost July, and it seems like we've have three sunny days (Oh hey, a news article saying we've had one sunny day) out of this entire month.

The centerboard still needs to be cut foiled and glassed.
I have about 4 more plywood sheets worth of patterns to cut out.
I have to figure out a way to teleport inexpensive OSB to my house, as I have no vehicle large enough to haul it for the building jig.
I need to order some 6mm Okoume.

Such a trivial list of things to fret about, isn't it? Perhaps I just needed to vent after all. 

Bright side of the day,when I was outside I was visited by a neat looking moth. 

I'm not sure what it is- perhaps a blinded sphinx moth? 

I love moths!  And I had pho for dinner.  The day wasn't a complete wash. 

The Cutest Spider You'll Ever See

I kind of like spiders. I do find them a little creepy admittedly, but as long as they're not crawling over me or threatening me, I'm okay with them. I know they serve a very good biological function, and they've crafted a nice niche for themselves.

The biggest spider I have ever seen was a huntsman spider in Guilin, China. Guilin is a beautiful city located in south China in the Guangxi province. It has a humid, subtropical climate, a lovely change from the grey of the Pacific Northwest, which resulted in a gigantic, 20 foot tall poinsettia tree outside of my apartment.

It also resulted in larger-than-anticipated arachnids. One spider we saw was larger than a roll of toilet paper. It was aggressive, though, so it fell into the "terrifying" category of my spider appreciation.

But there's more to spiders than just terrifying. I never thought I'd use the adjective "cute" to describe one.

Behold, the peacock spider. This little gem is found in Australia, a teeny tiny, vividly bright spider... that dances. Check it out.