Farewell to the Pile –O- Tools…

Yes…it is time. According to “Our Wayne” now that the foundation is complete and the structure has been framed and the sheathing has been hung, there is really no need for the giant pile-o-tools that has accumulated in our Blog Cabin kitchen to stick around.

It has taken it 3 years for our pile to grow into the fine young pile he is today. Yes… I am giving our pile-o-tools a gender and congratulations…it’s a boy! Throughout his infancy and childhood we had some growing pains with our little pile, like when I stubbed my toe on a rogue brick hammer in the middle of the night and when P poked her finger on a retractable knife that refused to re-tract. After that, for safety purposes, we tried relocating our growing boy. He started his journey as a little guy growing up in the left front corner of the Blog Cabin behind the front door. As we took on more projects we started feeding him more tools adding screw drivers, power tools, a few tape measures and some nails here and there. We were constantly feeding the little guy and then, and then one day he started to grow. He grew so much and got so big that he started to block the front door from opening! At that point we knew he needed more room for out little guy because he and we could barely move! So, we moved our not so little pile from behind the front door to in front of the sliding glass door. We thought for sure he and we would be more comfortable with him there… but, the pile continued to be fed and the pile continued to grow and then, we ripped out the sliding door to put in our new French doors! The pile was so big he was getting in our way again. At that point we had to move our growing boy to the kitchen and this is where he has lived for the past year. He continued to grow so we continued to organize and reorganize hoping to make more room and keep everything consolidated. We tried grouping like items together, a small bucket of tape measures, a large bucket of nails, crow bars and levels leaned vertically & neatly in the corner by the cabinets, screw drivers in a coffee can, but no such luck the pile grew and spread where ever he wanted when ever he wanted. It was getting overwhelming and the pile looked a bit neglected. AND THEN…AND THEN…this past Saturday Our Wayne was passing by our pile–o-tools and said, “Ya know…we can probably go through all this and take a bunch of these tools back to my garage.” P and I were like, “What??” Our Wayne said, “Well, we really don’t need a lot of this stuff anymore and it’s taking up a lot of space.”
P and I weren’t really sure if we were ready to let our pile move out and go off into the world on his own. Was he really ready? After thinking about it for some time, we realized that we must set the tools free…we mustn’t keep him around for our own selfish reasons. We must let him go off into the world and continue to build and not sit in the kitchen and collect dust. So, today on the twenty-fifth of October in the year two-thousand and ten we bid farewell to our pile-o-tools. Farewell.

Lol - ok seriously...we are not sad to see this pile go... AT ALL! We have both stubbed our toes waaaay too many times! hahaha GOOD RIDDANCE! :)

Hey…here is something interesting I just realized…I can look at this picture and look at each item and tell you exactly what it was used for . Go ahead try me... pick a tool any tool comment me the question and I will tell you exactly what it was used for in our Blog Cabin Journey. Awwww...it's like looking back at a remembrance album :)