Sunday, May 14, 2006

Mr. Fixit

We get home from church today and Eli says he has to show me something in the back yard. Out we go. He goes through the garage and comes out with an interesting contraption. A 3' piece of copper pipe, fitted with some sort of trigger machanism, all hooked up to the air compressor. "Watch," Eli says. Shoves the end of the pipe into the ground a couple of inches, lifts it out and fires. The air shoots the dirt about ten feet in the air. John looks at me and says, "This is how mechanics play."

18 comments:

Carla said...

You ever seen a potato launcher? Hilarious! I'll let Pat blog about that one.

kristi noser said...

Yeah, Terry Sandqist brought his to the first annual Noser Pig Roast. We had a ball with it, shooting the samll pile of logs in the back yard...

Tia said...

My first official blog. Thanks for hooking me up.

Cheers and Happy Mother's Day!

kristi noser said...

Welcome Tia Maria

Anonymous said...

I remember that one!! We ran out of potatoes and started a late harvest on the produce in the garden, some waaay past the fresh date! Jeffrey got hold of a cucumber, shot it straight up in the air and it rained cucumber juice on all of us!

Brandy Dopkins said...

That Eli John. I love his low voice, kind spirit, and creative mind. He's his daddy's boy.

Unknown said...

Oh man! What about the Water Balloon Slingshot? I am going to get my hands on one of them for the upcoming roast.

Hey, what if we had a potato launcher and a balloon slingshot, and Eli's pipe bomb? Throw in some moving targets and we will have an absolute blast...all to the Glory of God!

kristi noser said...

Dang, Pat, that sounds like fun!

kristi noser said...

Even more fun if the moving targets are Jeff Burton and Randy Zimmermann....muuhhuhhhaahaahaa

Unknown said...

Dance!! Dance!!

Unknown said...

I just got to thinking Kristi. Your blog is now probably being watched by all the gov't security agencies because of "pipe bomb". Sorry.

Reegz said...

I second the motion of targeting Burton and Zimmerman. You could make some serious money doing that if you charge per turn .....and all to the glory of God of course! :o)

Joey said...

pipe bomb

pipe bomb

pipe bomb

(I just want the government to really start paying attention to this conversation. It'll give them one more thing to waste their time on.)

kristi noser said...

It boggles my mind that government agents are wasting MY tax dollars reading my blogs. Why don't I just read them and they can give me the money--that works. Hey, we'll all read them and split the money--even better!

NoOtherName said...

Forget the potato guns...ever seen a potato canon? Ben McMullen and Alex Johnson made one a couple of years ago and brought it to a youth retreat. It was 8+ feet long and could launch potatoes into Nebraska (almost).

Let's give those guys a call for the next JohnFire!

Reegz said...

A cannon huh? Could say...a medium sized man fit inside of it? :o)

kristi noser said...

Say the size of Jeff Burton?

Reegz said...

Did I think that out loud?