Identifying

Some people taste a dish and can identify its ingredients. Some listen to music and can identify the composer, the performer and the conductor. Some look at a product and can reverse engineer it.

We are having a late Friday lunch in our kitchen. Strange squealing-like noise is coming from the walls. "Our downstairs neighbor is trying to drill a hole in a concrete wall, with a screwing machine attached to an electric drill with weak batteries", says my husband, Peter. He despises using the wrong tool for the job and almost considers offering the neighbor his hammer drill. When he needs to do a job, he first makes sure he has the right tool for it. If not, he makes or improvises one.

Peter is a tool collector. He has tools for every possible profession (even defunct ones) and task. He respects his tools, including those that belonged to his late grandfather. With his amazingly good hands, he can fix everything around the house. He enjoys it too. We enjoy the results.