Before...I forgot to take a before picture of the table.Saturday, we cleaned the garage, broke out the trusty sandpaper and began our little project. Apparently, I am kind of naive about how long these sorts of things take. I thought...we'll clean our garage be done by noon, refinish the table, be done by about two (that's an hour to sand and an hour to refinish...yep, that should be enough time) and then shower so we can go play. Yeah...RIGHT.
We started sanding the table and sanded and sanded and sanded and in more than three hours got maybe one quarter of the way done, with just the sanding. Wil was talking about our table project at work and how he wished he had a sander (please note, when we started this project, and Wil broke out the sandpaper I said, "ok, where's the sander - can I use it?" Nope, no sander, just some good old fashioned sandpaper and our very own hands).
A guy at work took pity on him. Today, the man brought Wil a sander - apparently, he bought a bag of Ryobi tools (Wil's very favorite kind) at a yard sale and it came with several sanders. He was going to let Wil borrow one, but then decided he had no use for several and told Wil he could keep it.
This is Wil...tonight...playing with his new sander and sanding the table. He got home, walked out the door and got ready to start sanding. I think he likes his new toy!
5 comments:
That is a seriously cool bench!!! I love it!!!! What a great project!
I will be interesting... Tita told me so many stories about how when Guero was a boy he had so many "projects". He was always working on something. Now - JJ is the same way. He will take any kind of stick and pretend he is working like daddy. It is great to see that there is some kind of genetic code (that I don't have) that draws them to their tools?
ha ha - Freudian Slip! I said "I" will be interesting!! I meant "IT" will be interesting - as in - lets see if Lalito or your boy children are the same as their dads!!
Well be glad you have a garage for the projects. Brad's first was on our porch in Wymount and we got told to put it away long before it was done.
YEah! the hand sander is my BEST FRIEND!!
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