What a Life!

I finally put together the wagon Mom and Dad bought for Ben when they were here [a month ago]. It was so nice out today, I tried to spend as much time as possible outside, and I decided that was something I could do.

It took me forever to find the hammer – Steve had it in a drawer in the utility room. Then the directions said to use some all-purpose oil. I had to call Dad and ask him what I should us. He said “Sewing machine oil,” because, of course, that is something I would have around.

The directions were kind of dumb. They had all these different sizes of screws, and in their key, instead of lining up all the parts and grouping similar pieces together, they had a drawing of the wagon unassembled. Nothing was numbered in order on the picture, and they used names for things that didn’t make any sense to me. They had tiny nuts, bolts, and washers, and then they had one small, one medium and one really long one. There were seven of the tiny ones, but the part numbers – one for the nut, one for the bolt, and one for the washer – were 12, 14 and 26.

But I did figure out how to put it together. And Ben did enjoy playing with it. Of course, this picture was taken right after I let him start playing with it and before he started doing what I expected him to do with it…that it, load up all his toys into it and then pull it around the patio (that’s what he does with the laundry basket inside all the time!).