Recycling and Reuse

We have been cutting back on our spending, which has made both of us rethink what we buy and do with our time on a daily basis. Michael is very handy and always has to have his hands busy. So he has been resourceful lately and brought home an old metal bed frame that was discarded up the street from our house and wood pallets discarded outside a furniture store nearby. As a result, he spent some long nights creating this.
Talk about vision. Welding is one of his newer activities in the garage, which has totally come in handy to fix things around the house. Using the materials mentioned above, he made this custom welding cart to fit under the workbench so that he can take it out into the driveway, where sparks can fly freely, and also have a surface to work from. Good job Mick!

When I think of what it means to be a good stewart of the earth, he surprises me with this kind of stuff. On the same note, he suprised me this past weekend by carrying Maggie's bath water in her little tub out to the front lawn and giving the water double purpose. The environmentalist in me is smiling.