A busy day, slightly delayed... I got up this morning at 4 am, with every intention of putting a second coat of spar varnish on our grill cabinet. The first step (a light sanding of the first coat, a blow-down with compressed air, and a rub-down with a tack cloth) went just fine, and I was finished with that at 5:45. Then Mother Nature intervened: the varnish I'm using says that the minimum temperature for application is 60°F – and wouldn't you know it, it was only 55°F then. I'll have to wait another hour or so for things to warm up. The forecast calls for a high of 81°F, so eventually it will warm up. The timing is a bit critical for me, as I need to get the second coat on this morning so that there's time for it to cure before I put a third coat on this afternoon. Yesterday it took about 6 hours for the first coat to cure enough that I could have re-coated, though not quite enough for a sanding. I'm not planning to sand between the second and third coats, so the second coat doesn't have to cure quite as thoroughly before I apply the third.
This evening we're going to the Hyrum Rodeo. We went last year with our friend Aleck L. Debbie and I quite enjoyed it. I think Aleck mainly enjoyed it as a sort of anthropological investigation into white farmers. :) That starts at 7:30 pm, and we need to get there early to get a good seat – which puts a hard stop on when I can put that third coat of varnish on. I don't think they're likely to delay the rodeo to help me out!
Between the first and second coats I'm going to start catching up on nearly a month of backlog on my bookkeeping. I have a dismayingly large pile of credit card receipts to deal with, as on our 18 day trip we were using the credit card far more frequently than we usually do...
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