I’ve long thought that the phrase “kid in a candy store” should really be “kid in a hardware store.” Finn & I have enjoyed untold hours cruising the aisles of the nearby OSH, futzing with flanges, banging on PVC “drums,” marveling at weed whackers, and more.
This past Sunday he somehow conned talked me into buying a little clog-busting “drain snake”–just a peg and a handle on the ends of a flexible metal rod. He was enthralled all day with it, at one point fashioning it into The World’s Least Efficient Utensil. Here’s a handful of images (HTML).
[Tip o’ the hat to our friend Maria, lover of basic home improvement as well as the culinary arts. Clearly Finn’s a man cut from the same cloth.]