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Saturday January 12th 2019Tim
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Balsa is in
the Mallow Family. Like most flowering plants Balsa
grows fast and we're talking 90ft in fifteen years. One
of the things about Balsa wood is you can't really get
your grubby little fingers on it by going to the mail
order. The reason, for those of us who might be
incredibly picky about these things, is that of the
grades the grade that goes to make planks can often
contain more harder bits than softer bits and
vice-versa. And there's nothing worse than a harder
rather than softer 1/8 inch plank when what you really
want is 1/8 plank that's soft as cold butter. It's
frustrating, can lead to tears and is a real downer on
the Zen that flows through the modeler who might be
wondering whether the USA would be better off with
something like a Panda as its chief executive and maybe
Koala Bears as the cabinet members. Oddly one of the
Chinese Emperors eventually had to marry off his
daughter to one of the Northern Clan leaders to prevent
breaches to a border wall. They were a really very, very
long way from Me Too back then, but no further away than
say Abraham, you had to wait until the Medieval Girl
Saints before there was even an inkling.
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The point
is, yesterday I broke the sole new year's resolution
which was to attempt to cogently engage the English
Language as it is written every day of the increasingly
arduous year of Our Lord 2019. My excuse was the
experience of crossing at least four county lines in
search of a hands on Balsa Wood Shopping Experience.
Fortunately the Artist accompanied me, she's pretty much
a world traveler when it comes to stuff like crossing
county lines, takes it in stride, is frighteningly
relaxed and jovial. Nor was there any need for anything
like access to a geo synchronized satellite, the device
remained firmly locked in the Artist's glove
compartment, which was a big relief because the Artist
can get into terrible quarrels with technical devices,
especially when they're offering suggestions. For my
part I'd almost given up on finding Balsa Wood planks
and had devolved into a possibly unfair critical
analysis of modern day hunter gathering. Then there it
was 1/16, 1/8 and 3/8 planks, and typical there was no
1/32 and no 1/4. Obviously it had been picked through,
some of it dinged and all of it carelessly returned to
the compartments by what could only have been a barbaric
horde.
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