maybe I am in love with it because it looks like the letter "C" and C is for COOKIE!! I think it is because it is so cool and fun to work - I really want to buy one!! To bad I can't rationalize a $500 tool I won't ever use again. But I really LOVE it. The fun end of the mallet is the rubber end - you get to whack the wood in place and then you get to whack the machine on that big black button. It really is fun! This also deserves my unswerving devotion because it helped us put in our new floor - doesn't it look awesome. It is only 8 billion times better looking than the old disgusting floor (most of you saw our old front room floor). The fact that the whole floor cost us like 60 bucks makes me love it even more. We originally were not using this amazing tool - we were using a nail gun that wasn't really the right one - but our neighbor came over and said we couldn't use that. He then called our other neighbor who came over and said he had the right tool and a bucket of nails. I asked him how much I could pay him for the clips (or whatever he called them) and he said "nothing - we are neighbors and that is what we do" - only in the sometimes very awesome PA do we hear words like that!! Tomorrow we will give back the awesome tool and my life will be a little empty - maybe if I ask nicely my neighbor will let me visit it and hit it every once in a while.
In other Phui news we have been very busy with projects and life. Pence and I went with the McWhorters to the Herr's potato chip factory tour - and they got us fresh chips off the line - they were so good and so bad. Julie you should be proud of me for doing something like that - even if DeAnn planned it, reserved it, and drove. Jacob had the apple festival in his class where he got to go to 20 different stations of different things made with apples - seriously grubbin. I don't remember calorie filled events like this at my school - caramel apples were my favorite station. While I was there this little boy looked up at me, grabbed Jacob's shoulder and smiled while saying "he is my best friend!". Jacob immediately without any delay looked at me with this - he is crazy look on his face - and said " no he's not, Aman is!" (Aman is our neighbor - they are not in the same class this year).. Jacob my advice to you is TACT - get some tact!! Plus I tried to explain to him that having lots of friends is a good thing - we don't have to have just one best friend - I am sure it fell on deaf ears.