Before there was snow. After there was.....
SPRING!
This is what a Dog Wood tree looks like.
What else has been happening? Well, Sal went off on Friday to the Outer Banks to help some other Duke people with some research that I don't quite understand. The picture below is their research van. She came home after midnight on Saturday and spent Sunday looking tired and sorry for herself.
I am currently fixing up a SERIOUSLY neglected bicycle that my lovely carpool buddy Lara got for me. I am exasperated by my inability to find liquid rust remover in this country. I went to Home Depot, which is like Bunnings - a giant hardware chain that has apparently pushed out all the small hardware shops. I asked two managers for liquid rust remover. I was told in no uncertain terms that they did not stock any such thing. Of course these products are available in America and you can buy them from you local hardware store except for the fact that they were driven out of business by Home Depot! Dear Home Depot - f**k you!
4 comments:
The dogwood is British Columbia's floral emblem too. Hmm. The Americans must have run out of official flowers by the time number 50 came along, they started to pinch them from Canadaian Provinces.
Didn't you get your bikes shipped over? The stuff you want from Home Devo is Killrust. Active ingredient phosphonic acid (yes, phosphoNic acid). Not sure how it differs from phosphoric though...
They don't stock the rust-removing product they make. Trust me, I asked.
I think this is like drain cleaner; just make your own from the lab chemical supply.
Either that or order it online. I'm sure there is an online home hardware store.
Cheers, Tim.
Hmm, isn't the dogwood the state flower of Virginia as well? (I admit I'm basing that entirely on having watched 'The American President' too many times - never knew what they looked like though, so thanks Nic.) Having just checked and noted that Virginia is right above NC I guess it's understandable, but I would have thought they'd go for a bit of variety!
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