This is fine, but inevitably ends up landing on my plate. I get in the car and go to Home Depot with a random list of random, rare items. I wander the aisles for about an hour trying to gather these items, and finally put my man pride aside and ask for help. The person has no idea what half the items are either, so I attempt to read the printout and explain to him what the end result will be:
"Umm. It is going to be this big floor mat sign thing for the kitchen floor and this watered down paint with glue is supposed to look like it came from the ancient Egyptians and kissed by Ra."
They always nod and smile when I mention Pinterest because it's probably the 10th list he's seen today. So he gets help. Soon it is like the Wizard of Oz with me picking up a group of sales associates on our walk through the store as we collect these random treasures. It drives me nuts. My goal is to avoid going home heartless, brainless, and trying to find the courage to face the Pinterest Wizard.
The idea behind this blog started when we wanted to do a small retaining wall in the backyard. Initially we wanted to use railroad ties to build a 3 foot wall, but I wasn't comfortable with it supporting a hill. Try as I would, I couldn't make her understand my concerns. After all, she saw it on pinterest. That night she came to me with her pinterest wall of walls with about 300 examples of railroad tie retaining walls. These suckers were incredible, to say the least! There were some that were 15 feet high, flat, with no visible support structure. I couldn't explain to her in any terms the reason for these walls being impossible in our situation, so I did the next best thing. I diverted focus to a rock retaining wall, and luckily she didn't have time to enlist the help of the million idea army of Pinterest.
The only thing I can do is laugh and go along with it all. Sometimes the ideas work out great. Sometimes they don't. So this blog is the adventure of me trying to navigate the minefield known as Pinterest, as instructed by my wife.
