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Very windy today.

windy spring

Today we went to Home Depot again, after a long time, to take part in the workshops for kids. We could have made a (rather useless) flag holder of some sort, that would have been thrown away in a few days, or could have made the rain gauge, which we decided to build, and which we will probably throw away in a few weeks after it gets all distorted from begin soaked in rain water.

A fun and useful project considering the weather here. The kids had to play with glue and pound on a few nails. They had a hard time with the nails and this reminded me of my first time I had to hit a nail. I must have been five or six. There was this shoe repair workshop on the corner of an intersection, back in Romania. I still remember it now, it was on my way home from school. We used to walk a lot. My mom took me to this shoe repair guy. She had to pick up some shoes from there and the man must have asked me if I have ever hit a nail. I don’t recall the whole visit, but I do remember he made me hit a nail and try to drive it in a piece of wood. It kept on bending. With a few hits, he did it easily. I kind of know what’s in my kids’ minds (especially my boy) when we have to hit the nails at the Home Depot workshops.

There are so many things that I see now with different eyes and I remember similar situations from when I was a kid. I’m sure this happens to everybody who has children, although I hardly hear people talk about it. I feel the transition from one generation to the other almost daily. It’s such an interesting feeling.

Home Depot workshop