Monthly Archives: March 2009

Best. Teak. Tool. EVER!

By B.J. | Published March 31, 2009

Drumroll please…the best tool for working on your teak decks is now…. The Amazon Kindle 2! How does this little wonder help you refinish your teak, one might ask? Well, technically it doesn’t. What it DOES do is read to you, which goes a LONG way towards alleviating some of Read On..

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The Mendacity of Hope

By B.J. | Published March 31, 2009

I’d HOPED to be writing about something other than teak by now. That ain’t happening. Because Teak is now my life. So we’re back from vacation and tomorrow the kids go back to school and I restart the Teak Immersion Process, whereby I bury as many daylight hours as I Read On..

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Hasta Luego…

By B.J. | Published March 18, 2009

Off to Curaçao…back in ten days or so.

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The Best Laid Plans…

By B.J. | Published March 18, 2009

Must enjoy repetitive drudgery, bent backs, crossed eyes, long hours, lousy pay and awful black crud ingrained in your skin and under your finger nails. Disaster strikes…Jeff found a job. Dave was always a short term proposition since he had a job lined up after graduation, but Jeff and I Read On..

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Proud? More like "Rode Hard…"

By B.J. | Published March 13, 2009

and put away wet. The description “proud of” from my surveryor’s reports always amused me. “The caulk stands proud of the deck…” just sounds so…dignified. Of course it’s not, it’s a concise way of saying “sticking up”. Generally the sticking up is caused by something else wearing down. In this Read On..

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