There was a long list of things that needed to be done to Melmoth 2 before leaving for Oshkosh. One was to get a coat of paint onto the airplane. This I barely managed to accomplish in time, using roller, brush and a marine paint formulated for sailboats being finished, I suppose, at the ends of Alaskan docks, remote from air compressors. This type of paint flows out amazingly smooth, as though sprayed, if you apply it just right. I managed to do so in some places and not in others, but the result didn’t look too bad, on the whole, if you stood far enough away.
I luckily found, as the day of departure approached, that I could delete things from the to-do list without actually doing them. This discovery sped my progress considerably.
