The Wood Store

Justin is a die-hard, tried and true, man's man.  Darrel took that first photo of him today putting a riding lawnmower through it's paces.  (If I can figure out how, I'll post the video he shot, too.) Darrel took the morning off work as a Mother's Day gift to me and spent some quality time with Justin at "the wood store", as Justin calls it, or more accurately, Justin Heaven.  Justin loves everything to do with building, home improvement, mechanical devices and yard care. He helps Darrel with any sort of project around the house and he sticks with every job he starts.

A few weeks ago he was asking me how the toilet flushed so, I pulled off the top of the tank and let him have a look inside.  You should have seen that face light up!  He asked me about all the parts and what they did (to my credit, I could name the float, chain and flapper).  He asked if he could touch the water after I explained that it was clean, but even with that explanation he still smirked like he was getting away with something by touching it. After a good long look, we closed it up and he went down for a nap, satisfied. Ever since then ( I did know what I was starting) he wanted to see it every time he flushed the toilet, but I limited it to one time a day. Darrel assisted him one of those times and introduced him to pulling up on the float so it would stop the tank from filling and then letting it go again.  (I won't take any responsibility if that thing breaks!)

Today Darrel had to put a new box around the sprinkling system valve in the back yard and Justin helped him out.  If I had thought about it I would have taken pictures of him digging in the dirt, finding worms and snails, but I didn't think of that 'til now.  Drat.  It was very cute, though. He kept stealing Darrel's big shovel and tried to convince him that he could dig with the little green plastic shovel.  Boy, I sure love that independent little guy!