Kirk G
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It's a warm February weekend here, and the wife has started spring cleaning. (It doesn't matter that I told her this is an aberration and the warmth won't last. She's into it.)
Now she's looking at my work pile and "suggesting" that I straight it up or get it out of the living room. I tell her that I intend on building two rockets over the next month, and not to touch anything.
So now she's looking at the pieces of balsa that I have cut off from various fins and things, and saved in large and small zip-lock baggies. "Can't you at least throw these out", she says.
What do I tell her?
Is it a symptom of OCD that I want to hang onto my scraps of balsa flashing that have come off earlier lazar cut fins and kits?
How often do you find or even look for a piece to repair, shape or make do, from your earlier scrap wood?
(I'm not talking about something the size of your fingernail... but maybe something as large as your longest finger or a length of a ruler or something triangular like a protractor?)
Help! She's getting closer with the vacuum cleaner as I speak....
Now she's looking at my work pile and "suggesting" that I straight it up or get it out of the living room. I tell her that I intend on building two rockets over the next month, and not to touch anything.
So now she's looking at the pieces of balsa that I have cut off from various fins and things, and saved in large and small zip-lock baggies. "Can't you at least throw these out", she says.
What do I tell her?
Is it a symptom of OCD that I want to hang onto my scraps of balsa flashing that have come off earlier lazar cut fins and kits?
How often do you find or even look for a piece to repair, shape or make do, from your earlier scrap wood?
(I'm not talking about something the size of your fingernail... but maybe something as large as your longest finger or a length of a ruler or something triangular like a protractor?)
Help! She's getting closer with the vacuum cleaner as I speak....