jennanddave.com: Big Bang Theory

So, have any of you seen the show "The Big Bang Theory"? It's about a bunch of really, really, ridiculously smart guys (I'm not going to use the term geeks because of where I'm going with this post) and their hot blonde neighbor? It's very funny. While Henry and I were in Boston my mom mentioned she had seen the show, and there was one scene in particular that she found pretty funny that involved the hot neighbor wanting some help in assembling an entertainment unit she had purchased from Ikea or some such place. The really, really, ridiculously smart guys (not geeks!) looked at it and said they could improve upon the design, and then headed out the door to go to a scrap yard to get some materials for doing just that. When my mom finished describing the scene, she asked me if living with Dave was like that.

Last week we went out and bought our Christmas tree. We went to one of those chop-your-own places. It was the first time we'd ever done that, and it was so much fun. In the years before we moved to Central PA, the tree stand we used was the kind where you turn four screws until the tree is securely in place. Then we moved here and discovered the tree stand of choice is the kind that has the spike you insert into a pre-drilled hole in the tree trunk, so we bought one of those instead. The chop-your-own place didn't have a machine for drilling the hole in the trunk, so we brought our old tree stand out of storage.

We had invited some friends over to help decorate the tree, and they were due to arrive in approximately one hour. I asked Dave to take care of the tree and the stand while I cleaned up the kitchen and got some food ready. Half-an-hour later, I looked outside and saw our tree still bundled up and leaning against the side of our house. What was taking Dave so long? I headed out to the garage to see what was going on. There was Dave with our old tree stand which was now screwed to a big slab of wood. Attached to the underside of the big slab of wood were four smaller square pieces, each of which had been capped off with a square cut out from the leftover self-sticking linoleum we had used for our kitchen floor a few years ago. Dave looked up at me and said "Look! Isn't it awesome? And look, I even put some of the leftover linoleum on the bottom of the feet so they won't scratch up our floors!" All I could say was "You made a Christmas tree stand stand?!?"