buffer1I’ve always known I’m married to quite the man. I’ve been caught calling him Midas because anything he touches does turn to gold. Not literally, of course, but significantly enough for everyone around him to notice he is quite the wiz. I won’t go on and on about how wonderful, intelligent, sexy, etc. my husband is .. but I will tell you he did it again! As I was doing my regular mommy duties, cleaning up the house, emptying the last of the coffee into my cup, and preparing for my day, off in the distance was alot of power tool racket. By off in the distance, I mean in the office. Of course I was wondering what Aaron was up to now, but he’s always up to something, so I didn’t think of it again until he came into the kitchen with a successful all be it gloating grin on his face.  He asked me to check out his newest masterpiece. All I saw was what is in the picture to your left.  That piece of machinery is Aaron’s buffer sitting on the work bench among his other tools (off to the right), and beautiful Lady Liberty collection.  Up to this point, the buffer’s cloth wheels, when spinning, fling debris in all directions.   The only way to prevent the mess was to rig up a contraption to catch the muslin cloth pieces.  This is how he did it.  See the small white pvc pipe coming off the buffer on the left.  It is attached in two places to the hoods on the buffer.  The hoods don’t completely prevent the scatter of debris, so Midas (aka Aaron) attached an old upright vacuum cleaner that is located in the cupboard to the left to the pvc pipe.  He proudly gave Andrew (8), Joshua (3), and myself a quick demo of how his masterful contraption works.  Turn on the vacuum in the closet, buff pens, & NO MESS!!!  Pretty amazing!  You can see why I had to share.  Who knows what he’ll come up with this afternoon.

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