Every once in a while Craig will come up with these bizarre ideas. I've learned over our 5 1/2 years of marriage to just laugh them off and let him go at them with all his gusto and enthusiasm. Monday night at 11:30 Craig started working on one of these bizarre ideas and I didn't even ask him what he was up to; I didn't want to know. By 1AM his project was completed. It was a whipper snipper for Shaun!
Using an old cut down hockey stick for the shaft, Craig added the motor from a tape player and a switch box from a remote control boat. A couple of wires and a 9V battery, and everything held together with hockey tape and it was complete. Shaun spent over an hour outside this morning trimming all the weeds and grass in our humble little backyard. For a free toy, made in about an hour by a very creative daddy, I'm really impressed first that it works, and second that Shaun is so enamoured by it.
Maybe Craig can make me a food processor next???
2 comments:
Wow, I'm impressed with how crafy (or should I say engineering since that sounds more manly?) your DH is! Wish mine could create stuff like that on a whim!
The term "whipper snipper" cracks me up. NEVER heard that before. You crazy Canadians... I've heard it called a weed whacker, but never a whipper snipper. I LOVE finding these differences in dialogue. They really do fascinate me.
(Somewhat) Funny story: We once camped with a bunch of Canadian friends at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. While we made fun of them (never behind their back!) for saying "eh" one of their children, a teenager, turned to me and said something akin to, "You know what bugs me down here?" I said, "What?" He said, "You guys, when you end a conversation, saying 'have a good one.' Have a good what?!" Of course my husband, after spending a week with a bunch of the same friends in Toronto, came home finishing every sentence with a jovial, "Eh?"
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