Wait till my neighbor sees me watering the dirt instead of the leaves. She's gonna think I finally lost it.

Did you watch that Dylan O'Donnell video on polar alignment, lol?

Quick-dry mortar's too rigid for adobe, you'll want a mud mix with straw instead.

I used to think I had to be the expert in the room when someone rolled their bike in, you know? But that's backwards. There was a customer last month, a retired mechanic, who showed me a trick for truing a wheel that I'd never seen in any manual. He just had this feel for the spokes, like he could hear the tension. It really humbled me. Now I listen way more than I talk in the shop. Some of these folks have been riding since before I was born, so yeah, they know things.

PVA isn't reversible though, so old-school paste has its place for rebinding (just not on leather spines).