More sticks to sand and seal, but by the end of the day (interrupted by driving around town during a Huskies, Mariners and Sounders game) all the cross pieces were on the drying rack with all sides completed.
Remaining — the wine bottle dividers, these multitude of ½” x ½” sticks. Not sure how I’m going to seal those, but they will be in gloss because I’m out of matt finish.
I did stumble across an educational (for me) item on Slate’s website:
Cold Shower: How to spit with the wine pros.
Spit or swallow? For wine aficionados, the choice is usually dictated by circumstance: At meals you swallow, at tastings you spit (unless the wines being tasted are liquid gold; it would be criminal to cough up even a drop of the 1989 Haut-Brion, for instance). But as with so many other wine-related rituals, spitting is no simple matter. Proper technique and correct form count for a lot more than you might think in wine circles.
Of course, what I’ve noticed is that you just don’t get any respect at trade wine tastings if you don’t spit — dumping isn’t good enough.
Time to work on my skill set, but not with tonight’s table wine.
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yes, if you spit my 89 haut-brion i would kill you, personally 😉