Well this is what has been going on at our house.....
With having a teenage driver comes an old car. With old cars comes rust. With rust comes rusty parts. With rusty parts comes rusty brake lines. Are you seeing a theme here?
Okay, so I'm assuming you are all quick and understand that we have had a major car project going on in our garage!What started out as a rear brake line leak, quickly turned into a TOTAL brake line job!
We had broken bolts, leaking this and that, twisted parts.....you name it, we had it!
But tonight they had a break through...they started to put NEW parts back on. WOW...I didn't think it would happen!
It has been a great leaning experience for Tyler..he has worked right along side Steve! No free rides here. Steve would tell him to go out and start removing parts till he got to a solid one. Tyler would often come in to get his next assignment from Steve and for the most part has been diligent in working on it.
Steve has done a great job at being a patient teacher! His desire is to teach his boys to be men...this is one step, that he feels is way to important to skip over...car repair! No seriously, it's so much more than that! Tyler has learned sooo much from this experience. Things that will be a benefit to him, for years to come!
Steve would have just as soon taken this to a garage to have it done by someone else but would it have been this much fun?? Would Tyler have learned what he did and more importantly spent time with his dad in the garage? Thank you Steve for being diligent in helping your boys grow to be men! The reward will be worth all the back ache, dirty grease hands and pain of it all! Your Awesome Honey!
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i remember all sorts of projects my dad would get into.. working on the house, cars, etc. for some reason, he just didn't want the interruption and time delays associated with having 'help'. so, i never learned anything about cars, etc.
now, i still know nothing about cars.. but i have tried to involve joel and jon in working on home projects. probably wasn't as patient as it sounds like steve is.. but at least gave it a try! it is so impressive that you are an awesome and patient man steve. well done.
Have passed on the skill of mod- podging to my kids. They also know how to use a glue gun!!
Dad taught me how to plant a straight row of corn and mom taught me how to keep track of receipts just in case you needed to return something!!
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