Men and Their Tools

10/27/2014

Andrew has a neighbor, who is going out backward financially, and needs to sell, give away or toss pretty much everything in his house by Wednesday.  His house was foreclosed on and was sold at auction, and though I've never been inside the house, from the outside it looks very nice.

In our house, for all the years we've been married, there is an unstated rule for no calls before 10:00 am or after 10:00 pm - unless there is an emergency.  Yesterday, Andrew called us way before 10:00 in the morning to let Jeff know about the sale at this guy's house. He had already been over and bought a table saw and some other "man necessary" tools!  

Once Jeff got off the phone with Andrew, he called Scott.  The key word for Scott was tools and he got in his car and zipped up to our house.  Apparently, once all of my men were in one place, they decided that the furniture in the house was so good, that Scott called his neighbor and they came up for a look-see, which ended up being a buying spree.  

Jeff bought one thing, for the good of the family!, a trailer that we can pull with our truck and take the trailer back and forth from Andrew and Scott's house.  Luckily, Scott has plenty of land to store the trailer, so it's not going to end up in my garage!  The trailer will be very useful and the price was fair.  So we are now a family with the "OX", which is our big truck and now a trailer - we can haul just about anything. I think I'll name the trailer "Babe", which is a good fit for the OX.

Do you remember the old tv show Tool Time with Tim Allen?  On that show Tim Allen had never met a power tool that he didn't want/need.  And, as an added bonus, he "tinkered" with a lot of the tools to make them run faster, or more powerful.  It was a guy's show and all of the men in my house loved it.

I know that Jeff and the boys had a wonderful time yesterday, it was Tool Time for them in real time.  Both Andrew and Scott are still building up their personal stash of tools and so this man's sale was mecca for both of them.  Jeff had (notice the word had) a lot of tools, power or otherwise, and over the course of the boys moving out and into their own houses, some of those tools have been borrowed - indefinitely it seems!  Both boys have building projects they are going to undertake at their new homes, with Dad's help!  Jeff and I are not planning on any kind of construction or destruction at our house - we like it just the way it is.

Here's what I know for sure: my boys/men had a wonderful time yesterday.  They enjoyed each others company and were stoked about the treasures that they found.

P