Dad always had a collection of odds and ends in his basement workshop. A can of roofing nails, a box of wheels, an old army helmet and our favorite treasure of all, a box of old vacuum tubes saved from T.V sets and old radios. There must have been close to two hundred of them. For a group of children playing LEFT, 1:12 Dressed gardener ready to plant the flowers by CDHM Artisan Karin Smead
ABOVE, 1:12 Garden cart by CDHM Artisan Nancy Quinby "army" they made the perfect hand grenades, landing in the street glass side down with a satisfying popping noise. When he found that half of his tube stash was gone, we were subjected to an hour long lecture followed by our sweeping the entire street on the side of our house. Not just where the glass was, but the entire street! But still, again... He let us live.