Wow, how a boy's desire changes courses. Most of the day was in Jack's workshop. The boy's started making a go-kart. Our neighbor had alot of left over wood from his deck extension. The boy's sawed,drilled and made a chassis. They spent 6+hrs spent total in the basement, they. Don't get me wrong I was down all the time and Ben kept saying," Mom why are you down here again".
The tricky part will begin after tomorrow. I've asked the boy's how are you going to build an axle? They keep saying, oh, we're only making a box-car. There is no way I will let that happen. They want immediate gratification, without a blue print.
I was reminded of Neil's eulogy during my lecture to the boys. He spoke about all of Jack's passions. "If Jack was going to do it, it was going to be done correctly, it was going to be done well, and it was going to be done completely".
I've got to make sure it's safe, there's no way they will go kamikaze down a hill. At the end of the evening, they called me down. Ben and crew had totally cleaned Jack's workshop...it's cleaner than Jack left it. That made me smile, Jack always instilled in Ben to take care of his belongings...it must have rubbed off.
I've got neighbor boys arriving at 9am...ouch.
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