Omelet wrote:

> In article >,
> Kathleen > wrote:
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>>A whole roasting chicken, rubbed inside and out with a mix of kosher
>>salt, white pepper, sage, majoram, tyme, oregano, galic powder and onion
>>poder, with a quartered lemon in the cavity, done out on the gas grill,
>>low and slow, with mesquite chips.
>>
>>Not sure about sides yet. Probably ought to go get some potatoes to do
>>mashed, and use the nice smoky drippings to make some gravy.
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> Sounds like a plan!

Yeah, but I'm crabby. I've been doing repairs.

I hate repairs of any sort but tack repairs Really Suck. The items are
heavy, bulky, awkward to maneuver. But expensive enough to replace that
when my daughter asks me to fix something I feel obligated to at least try.

So yesterday I repaired two sets of saddle bags. The first was
basically shredded on one side. I patched it front and back, reattached
the d-rings and straps and banged in new gromets for lashing.

The second set of saddle bags had basically been torn in half along a
seam line. No big deal, I just re-attached the bag and reinforced
seaming anywhere else where it looked sketchy.

The saddle was the worst. It was a cheapo neoprene trail saddle that
she'd lent to a woman, who by the looks of the thing, tied a rope to it
and dragged it behind her truck. The woman reimbursed her for the cost
of the saddle but DD asked me to try to restore it so she could get some
more use out of it, if at all possible.

I had some tuftek on hand that seemed appropriate for patching the
shredded cover and a trip to Home Depot yielded waterproof contact
cement and some tubes of super glue.

The hassle was that the areas to be patched involved rather complicated
curves. And so I sat down and started draping the thing, fitting it the
way you would the bodice of a dress for a decidedly non-tubular female
human. And it worked.

It's not beautiful, but function has been restored, and the areas of
highest stress have been reinforced. If she'd had to pay me for my time
of course it would have been more cost effective to just buy another
cheapo neoprene trail saddle. But right now I'm long on time and short
on cash and actually enjoyed the project as a learning experience. And
I have a much better idea of what to charge if a paying customer ever
proposes such a project.