Boxed Set
So, I went to the SStore, and got me some stuff. Found several dozen 8 foot rods that looked like 3/8″ rebar but was much lighter. Turns out they are carbon fiber, coated with epoxy mixed with sand. Not sure what they are for. I also got a crate:

Mr. Cecil doesn’t like that. The guys at the SStore were rather dubious.

You may wonder why I got it. The reason is scrawled in the upper left of this picture. You can also see where it came from:

I took it apart, put it back on my car, took it to church and turned it into parts of Bethlehem. Here’s a shot of me untying it at church. Only one side of the car was visibility challenged:
December 9th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
nice shipping crate! Looks just the right size for Cecil. But where’s the pictures of the inanimate carbon rods?
December 9th, 2006 at 10:16 pm
If I saw you driving down the road in that thing I would think that it was a oversized car bomb.
December 9th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
…from Shenyang, China!