4/7/2012: Scissors

As you can see I keep this pair of scissors in the kitchen to help me with my couponing. And by couponing I mean the once every month or so that I cut open the empty coffee bean bag to get the coupon printed on the inside of it when it's time to go and buy another bag of coffee beans. Other than that the only coupons I tend to use are the ones that are actually attached at the store to whatever it is I'm buying, and even those I tend to forget to use.

4/6/2012: Dog Tire

This dog tire is one of Darwin's toys in the backyard. For the endless games of fetch he so enjoys. You would think that it would get old of the second or third toss and "Git it!"... but it doesn't. At least not for the dog.

4/5/2012: Blue Rimmed Drinking Glass

I have a lot more glasses than I would ever conceivably need, including 6 or maybe 8 of these blue rimmed drinking glasses. For some reason I went through a phase where I kept buying glasses. I didn't need them, but I'd see some I liked and I'd buy them. In fact as I'm typing this I'm trying to remember where the set of Dr Seuss glasses I bought at a Universal Studios Florida gift shop are... I haven't seen them in awhile. They're probably still packed in a box up in the attic from when I moved into the house. Four years ago.

4/4/2012: Chair

This chair matches the couch that I posted a couple months ago. While the couch was the result of a years long couch search, the chair just kind of came along with it. Chairs like this are just the sidekicks of the furniture world, Robin to their respective couch's Batman.

4/3/2012: Pile of Bricks

This is just a random pile of bricks I have sitting next to my house in the backyard. Previously it formed the border of a small flower bed the previously home owners haphazardly put in for 5 or 6 feet along the fence. But since it was difficult to keep weeded and I kept running the mower over the bricks, I just made the flower bed more yard and removed the brick border. Intending to eventually do something with the bricks... but not sure what.

4/2/2012: Outdoor Coffee Table

This outdoor coffee table has been sitting in my garage in its box waiting to be assembled for two possibly three years. It was one of those late-season buys, when the last few odds and end in the lawn and garden section of Target hit the 75% off point - you know, just before it's time to set up the Back to School stuff there. I actually kind of forgot I even had it. But yesterday the table's wait was over, and I used my ratchet set to finally put it all together.

4/1/2012: Ratchet Set

Pulled out my ratchet set this afternoon to build me a coffee table for my patio. I would personally like to thank the inventor of the ratchet. I assume his name is something like Horatio Peabody Ratchet III or something. Whatever your name is, thank you sir. Without your handy invention I'd likely still be sitting on the floor of my garage attempting to tighten bolts with the free little wrench that came with the coffee table. And assuredly there would be quite a bit of swearing involved as well.