Restorations
In the case where you don’t have too much money, you repair your stuff to keep it working. In the case where you have that tinker gene, you repair your stuff. But what about the case where your stuff is (essentially) junk AND you have too much money. Therein, the premise for a TV show.
I watched the program American Restoration this afternoon, and I like what I saw. The guy runs a shop for people with deep pockets and a love for something or other that should be consigned to the garbage bin. He looks things over, comes up with a price that makes me flinch and signs the deal with a handshake. And then, the fun starts.
This afternoon, I watched the “restoration” of a high school scoreboard, a pop cooler, a dehumidifier and vacuum from a WW2 hospital ship, a Geiger counter and some other odds and ends. In every case, he reverse engineered things, put the craftsmen in his team on task and received the praise from the clients at the end of the line. Cool!
The secret (if I can extrapolate from the TV series) is to take on projects that seem impossible. When success “happens”, you win. We never hear about the failures, but that would make for poor programming. I wonder if there’s a book in there.
Cross Country Checkup got into the financial aspect of getting old. A huge increase in the number of retired people, etc. Can we add in the huge increase in the national population numbers before putting on the panic face.
TIme to plan for winter. This good weather will end, and I really should close the pool before chillblains are part of the task. Maybe over the upcoming long weekend.
