Well today was a great day in the shop. I'm working on my own version of a plunge router raiser for the router table. I was threading rods and bolts and nuts and nothing was working. Things broke, nuts stripped out on me and all in all the plan went belly up. The good part? My son (7) came out to the shop and after diverting my attention away from the failed router raiser, we took some scraps and built a bird house. Yes a simple bird house. Who would have thought that such a simple project could bring me such great joy. As I watched his eyes come alive with amazement at the pieces being cut, the gluing and the nailing I was in a real happy place. I even let him shoot the brads in with a nail gun. Well, actually I help and positioned the gun he just pulled the trigger, but to him it was the coolest thing in the world. I bet the thing never comes apart since there's about 100 1 1/4" brads in it!! Not to mention half a pint of titebond II. My my. Anyway, after assembly came the paint. I found some red spray paint and let me tell you when he got ahold of that can, the fun was on my friends! The bird house is red, as is part of my workbench, his fingers and the bill of the hat I was wearing. What could I say?? So the day that started out in misery ended up being one of the finest in recent memory. Maybe tomorrow we can do a feeder!!
Jim
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