"Big Boy" Flyer |
5:47pm
Northern Virginia.
Still raining but more windy. Drove
over to Columbia Pike for emergency supplies.
1
gallon Lemonade
2
Magnums of Canada Dry Ginger Ale
1
Jumbo Petroleum Jelly
4
Large Petroleum Jelly
Let me tell you why petroleum jelly
belongs in the emergency kit. And yes, petroleum jelly is the generic term for
Vaseline®.
Yesterday I mounted, attached, a
window well cover outside the west facing window here in the Bamboo Room.
Drilled holes in the bricks, slathered on a clear silicone sealant and screwed
that baby in. The sealant promised a watertight seal after 3 hours.
During the recording of today’s ArtChat Podcast I noticed dripping inside of the cover. I went out and discovered
the sealant had not dried and sealed. With gusts up around 50 and the hard rain
the sealant had been washed and worn away. And that is when I thought, “Vaseline!”
Brilliant. Had about a third of a
jar in the Bamboo Room closet.
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Man, it was windy. I pried off the
cover from the jar and the wind whipped it out of my fingers, out of sight in
the direction of the front yard. Who cares? I slathered every bit of petroleum
left in the jar along the edges where the sealant had washed away. The wind was
slapping me with the umbrella while I was dabbing gobs of jelly in the cracks and
crevasses of the cover.
That Vaseline went on real slick,
but, I thought, what if that washes away, or another window leaks or the
basement floods? I needed more of that colorless goo.
Now I am back at the beginning of
this page. My present caught up to my present so to speak.
And now for the weather report.