There, I Fixed it.....

For anyone NOT familiar with the official "There, I Fixed it" web site, I highly suggest giving it a look. I love receiving their daily emails. Something about that mentality of fixing things on the fly and making do with what you've got really resonates with me. That's actually one of the many reasons I enjoy hanging around with my buddy John. As he puts, he was 12 or 13 years old before he realized you could just BUY things; his dad was the type to fix or fabricate anything they needed or needed repair. Anywho, my family is very much like that. I still remember being with my cousins at my grandparents house and trying to ride an old bicycle that had no tires.....just bare rims. Not an easy task on pea gravel. My papaw saw us doing this and he took some old, thick, rigid, pink fuel hoses and mounted them on the rims. Not an extremely pleasant ride, but it was a hell of an improvement over bare rims. On a recent visit to see my grandparents, I noticed this old lawn mower body in the shed. I asked my granny about the mower and she explained that my papaw used it to cart a water pump to the creek when he need to pump water out for the garden. Notice the piece of wood so the pump mounts up just right.

Anywho, I am always saving containers and reusing them when I can....often in the garage. But tonight I needed a way to preserve a can of sweetened condensed milk I had opened. (I use it for my coffee.) I had a plastic peanut butter jar in the cabinet. The can fit in nicely, but how to retrieve it each time. The solution gave me a little giggle when I figured it out. There, I fixed it.