Back to hobbies ... and Life

Finally got a decent photo of our black pug. He's a beut! He has to think about things alot before dealing with them. He has to sniff and sniff and sniff on a spot and think about what it all means. While the boston terrier would just take a quick sniff and head out looking for things to eat or things to chase. The collar he wears has lots of spikes on it ... just to keep Sheba from chewing on it or using it to pull him around.

-- the substitute bus-driver and retired psychobabbler ...

Saturday, May 21, 2011

My Putty Knife BROKE !

I obtained this putty knife when I worked at Sierra H.S. as a custodian.   I used it to scrape gum and other things off the floors.  Over the years, I have mostly used it to scrape with.  I have seldom had to "putty" anything.  Some 30 - 40 years later I was busy scraping a tar-tape off of the aluminum siding from the trailer ... when the blade went "Snap!" and broke off clean at the end of the handle. Darn.  
And I wasn't even done scraping yet.  

So, I eventually went to Lowe's and looked at all the different "putty knives" in the paint department.  There was even one with a skewed end ... like a lathe chisel.  I picked up all the flat-end ones, looked down and found stuff stuck to the concrete floor, and tried out each of the different putty knives at scraping the gunk up off the floor.  The one that worked best for me (happened to also be the most expensive) ... is the one I bought.  Now I can happily go back to scraping for many more years (I hope).  And this putty knife should out-live me.  
Note to children, do not fight over this ... it was only $7.

1 comment:

sleepless said...

Hilarious Bro. !!! Ya, I use that same tool for EVERYTHING !!! That or the cookie spatula !!!