Sunday, June 3, 2012

Plumbed Deep

It wasn’t the first time Mr. Pine, armed with duct tape and bailing wire, waded across the basement to the unidentifiable blob spewing water.

“They say you can fix anything with this stuff,” he said with unflagging conviction.

--C.D. Tolliver

8 comments:

  1. A snippet out of real life- excellent!

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  2. Great job Trifecta! Duct tape is indeed magical!

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  3. Had an old geezer neighbor who said, "if you can't fix it with duct tape and baling wire, it ain't broke.".

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  4. Have you been peeking in my windows?? Hubs just went in the crawl space to figure out what he needs yo fix a leaky hose bib. LOL! Raised in a hardware store, I know this post is an indisputable truth.

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  5. Mr. Pine must be a pseudonym for my redneck husband 'cause he got him ALL kinds of duct tape, even camo. That's what I'm talkin' about!!

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  6. sounds like a true Alaskan! :)

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  7. I'm always in awe when I see what people fix with duct tape and even more in awe when I see the different choices available now.

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  8. Thanks for linking up with Trifextra this weekend. I'm loving the duct tape thing. It's such a universal thing--we all get how you can fix anything with duct tape. Love it.

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