One Man's Trash is Asa's HEAVEN

My vacuum cleaner has been on its last leg for a while. I had to lean the handle in a certain way to get the spinners to spin and the button to let me detach the head came off so I had to stick a screw driver down in the hole when I wanted to use just the hose. But, I was still shocked this weekend when it died a very dramatic and smoke-filled death. The house smelled like a car fire and my vacuum cleaner was so hot it melted the plastic. Not good. A month before Christmas and I was most definitely not expecting a vacuum cleaner purchase.

Addison said in a sorry kind of voice, "It was a good vacuum cleaner". Asa, however, danced around excitedly and said, "Can I have it?? I'm going to use the parts for the T.V. I'm making!" and spent the entire day breaking it down on the back porch. He used various screw drivers to reach the circuit board, motor and all sorts of wonderful bits and pieces. The rain was coming, so he had to move his endeavors into the utility room, where it made an enormous, but very entertaining, mess.

Yesterday, Asa brought the motor and the vacuum component in to show Jeff... and he recruited an accomplice. The two of them spliced the old cord to the motor... and found that it worked crazy well. They are both trying to figure out just what they can do with it now. They spliced the vacuum part in and plugged it into the wall. It not only worked, but but it was impressive enough to have the two of them scouring the web for project ideas. I hear a hovercraft may be in the future... I guess Asa gets it honestly.