Beginning with the end - Jacob had a Tween lock-in for 4-H tonight and they were supposed to bring a cardboard box decorated like a car to sit in to watch the movie at the "Drive-In". Despite efforts early in the week and a couple of attempts in Mankato today (Scott and I spent our morning volunteering on behalf of Farm Bureau at the Region 7 FFA Discussion Meet at SCC), we were unable to attain a large box. When Jake got off the bus we hopped in the car and drove a few blocks to Nelson Furniture and asked owner, Tim, if he POSSIBLY had ANY box?!?! We went to the warehouse where he handed us over to his wife, Jean. We shared our sad story (we were really desperate!) and she managed to find a LARGE box the warehouse boys had drawn a target on and used as target practice for screwdrivers. It was a BIT beat up, but we thanked her profusely and said we could absolutely make it work!
Notice the big bullseye and holes ;)
We get this large box home and we're sitting in the living room looking at it and I tell Jake we don't have much time and there's probably not much we can do with it. We look on Pinterest and can't possibly achieve anything on there in the 2 hours we have....So we look at each other and know exactly what we're going to do - old school Kenworth Cabover.
Never even notice all the screwdriver holes from the front - Jake didn't mind and added gauges right over them.
Not perfect and not as detailed as Dad would do it, but the smile on Jake's face says it all - a happy boy with his truck - and not too shabby for 2 hours work!
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