Alice and I like to consider ourselves the artistic type. As such, we have taken on several crafts throughout the years – the most recent being cork balls. Alice found the idea online and felt we could easily complete the task. After sharing the idea with me, I agreed.
Thus, last week we started the project and found the painting of the balls took more time than expected. “No problem. We’ll finish them next week,” I told her. With this week being next week, and after receiving a text from Alice, “Ready to screw and glue?”, we again tackled our balls. Glue guns were plugged in and loaded. Hot Mustard handled the screws and strings. A large bag full of corks was at our ready.
Alice started with her smallest ball and I chose the medium of my three. We had been gluing for about an hour when Alice made an announcement, “I’m kind of over the balls right now. This is a lot of work.” “Why do you think most of your stuff is made in China? Nobody wants to do the work. The prep time is clearly the easiest,” I replied pointing to the bag of corks and added, “We can do a few more.” We did, literally, a few more and then Alice was saved by the pitch – anyone who knows Alice knows nothing gets in the way of a Yankees game.
As we watched the game, I proposed bringing the balls, corks and glue guns into the room so we could watch, screw and glue. “No, not tonight. Tonight we prep,” Alice replied.